love-launcher

Mobile launcher designed specifically for Löve games written in Lua featuring battery information, time and emulated multitasking (multitasking is emulated: all is single threaded, multithreading is possible but beyond the scope of this project).

Repository: https://codeberg.org/glitchapp/love-launcher-mobile

With Love Launcher, you can run multiple games simultaneously in minimized windows, allowing for seamless emulated multitasking on a single core.

Effortlessly switch between your favorite games by simply tapping to maximize or minimize the windows, ensuring a smooth and fluid gaming experience.

Enjoy the freedom to explore games and play them without interruptions.

5 games included:

- Pacpac

- glitch sokoban

- Gravitonik

- fish fillets mini (early version)

- gorge

Analog clock app also included.

v0.1.1 adds: First iteration, the games work and run simultaneously in both maximized and minimized windows.

What is not implemented yet is the unified controls for all the games.

Therefore you can not play the games yet but the screens you see in the launcher are real games running simultaneously and not placeholders.

v0.1.2 adds:

- Background

- Clock app

- Calculated space and size for the windows relative to mobile screen

- Started unified controls and draw them over the screen

v0.1.3 adds:

- Unified touch controls for portrait mode implemented: all available games can be played now

- Minimizing and maximizing windows works (tap anywhere on the screen to minimize and tap on windows to maximize).

- Backround shaders stops when game is not on focus (minimized) to save energy.

v0.1.4 adds:

- Added new game: Pacpac

- Improved fonts for the time and battery

v0.1.5 adds:

- new game gorge (repository: https://codeberg.org/glitchapp/gorge)

v0.1.6 adds:

- Weather forecast (unified keyboard input not yet implemented and default city is oslo and can not be changed yet)

To see the weather forecast swipe right, to enter city input menu swipe down and select the first option from the context menu.

To return to the main screen swipe left.

v0.1.7 adds:

- Rounded corners for the minimized windows

- Unified keyboard partially implemented (can be seen and used on the weather app and gravitonik game, but it still needs to be finetuned and the bindings to send the data to the weather app is not yet implemented)

To return to the main screen swipe left.