ChaiLove API

ChaiLove is a framework for making 2D games in the ChaiScript scripting language. ChaiLove is totally free, and can be used in anything from friendly open-source hobby projects, to evil, closed-source commercial ones.

Some interesting places to go from here:

• Getting Started
• love (the module)
• Callbacks All the callbacks that are executed.
• Games
• Examples
• Building ChaiLove

ChaiScript

Never used ChaiScript before? It's a really cool language! This manual won't teach you ChaiScript, but fortunately there are other good resources for that.

• ChaiScript Cheatsheet
• ChaiScript Documentation

Hello World

This is the full source for "hello world" in ChaiLove, using a main.chai file. Running this code will cause an 640 by 480 window to appear, and display white text on a black background.

global logo
global x = 10.0f

def load() {
     logo = love.graphics.newImage("logo.png")
}

def draw() {
  love.graphics.print("Hello World!", 400, 300)
  love.graphics.draw(logo, x, 100)
}

def update(dt) {
  x = x + 20.0f * dt
}

To run the above, execute it with retroarch -L chailove_libretro.so main.chai .