[Love2D Game Maker] Create Home Screen Launcher using Shortcuts and custom URL

If you want to run games in Love2D Game Maker quickly, without open the Love2D Game Maker App, then click the game you want to run, this post will help you to create a home screen launcher (looks like a normal app, you can customize the icon using the game icon) using the Shortcuts technology.

Open the Shortcuts App

Click the “+” button on the right side of the navigation bar to create a new shortcut

shortcut view

Tap the Search bar

Search “open url” action

Click the “Open URLs” action

Now we have an Open URL action, we must fill the URL blank

input love2dgm://game/launch?name=xxx

‘xxx’ is the folder name of the game you want to run.

Caution: the xxx must be game in the Documents folder in sandbox, not in Bundle

This is the setting page of shortcut.

You can click the info button in toolbar at the bottom of the page.

Click the “Add to Home Screen”

Set name and icon of the Home Screen launcher

The Pong icon is the home screen launcher I created for the Pong game in my Love2D Game Maker App