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Linux

On Linux, you can use one of these command lines:




love /home/path/to/gamedir/
love /home/path/to/packagedgame.love


If you installed LÖVE system-wide, you can double click on .love files in your file manager as well.



Mac OS X

On Mac OS X, a folder or .love file can be dropped onto the love application bundle. On the Mac Terminal (command line), you can use love like this (assuming it's installed to the Applications directory):




open -n -a love "~/path/to/mygame"


However, the above method will not output printed text to the terminal window. To do that, you will need to execute the love binary inside the application bundle directly:




/Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love ~/path/to/mygame


You can set up an alias in your Terminal session to call the binary when you use ​​love​​ by adding an alias to your ​​~/.bash_profile​​.

Open the file with




open -a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile


You may have to run




touch ~/.bash_profile


first if the file does not yet exist.

Then paste in the following code and save the file:




# alias to love
alias love="/Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love"