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Lua in a Weekend: Scripting Basics
Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 3 reviewsBeginner 12 lessons 652 students
Fare
€1Make a Retro Platformer with LÖVE
Build a complete pixel-art platformer in Lua with the LÖVE framework — movement, tiles, enemies and levels.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 from 2 reviews
- Beginner
- 18 lessons · 3h 3m of video
- 341 students
- English
- Updated Oct 2026
The route
Curriculum
5 modules · 18 lessons · 3h 3m of video
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1
28m
The game loop
3 lessons
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2
41m
Movement and physics
4 lessons
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3
45m
Tiles and collisions
4 lessons
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4
39m
Enemies and pickups
4 lessons
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5
30m
Polish and packaging
3 lessons
Destination
What you will be able to do
- Set up a LÖVE game loop
- Move a character with gravity and jumping
- Load tile maps and handle collisions
- Add enemies, collectibles and sound
- Package the game for three platforms
Before you board
You will need
- Lua basics (the weekend course is enough)
About this course
The journey
This course builds one finished game from start to end. Using Lua and the free LÖVE framework, you create a pixel-art platformer with smooth movement, tile-based levels, collectibles, enemies, sound and a title screen.
Each lesson adds one feature and leaves the game playable, and at the end you package it for Windows, macOS and Linux so friends can play it.
Frequently asked questions
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Beginner. No previous experience with this language is assumed.
No. You pay once and keep lifetime access, including every future update to this course.
Yes. The preview video at the top of this page shows real code from the course being written and run.
Checkout is handled on our provider's secure payment page. The moment your payment clears we email your personal access link and access code to the address you used at checkout, and the same link appears in your account library. There is nothing to install and nothing to wait for.
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What students say
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4.5
Rated 4.5 out of 5Course rating · 2 reviews
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JCOct 2026
Jamie Clarke
Indie game developer
Rated 5.0 out of 5Finished my first game, finally
I have started many games and finished none. Following this one feature at a time, I published a real platformer for my friends.
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SRAug 2026
Sofia Rinaldi
Art student
Rated 4.0 out of 5Great, collisions took me a while
Wonderful project. The tile collision lesson needed two viewings, but the explanation is correct and the result feels great to play.
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