diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ee68f85725ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+x@{builderDefsPackage
+  , lua5, mpg123, physfs, freetype, libdevil, openal, SDL, libvorbis
+  , libogg, flac, mesa, libtiff, libpng, libjpeg, libmodplug
+  , ...}:
+builderDefsPackage
+(a :  
+let 
+  helperArgNames = ["stdenv" "fetchurl" "builderDefsPackage"] ++ 
+    [];
+
+  buildInputs = map (n: builtins.getAttr n x)
+    (builtins.attrNames (builtins.removeAttrs x helperArgNames));
+  sourceInfo = rec {
+    baseName="love";
+    version="0.7.2";
+    name="${baseName}-${version}";
+    url="https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/${name}-linux-src.tar.gz";
+    hash="0s7jywkvydlshlgy11ilzngrnybmq5xlgzp2v2dhlffwrfqdqym5";
+  };
+in
+rec {
+  src = a.fetchurl {
+    url = sourceInfo.url;
+    sha256 = sourceInfo.hash;
+  };
+
+  inherit (sourceInfo) name version;
+  inherit buildInputs;
+
+  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
+  phaseNames = ["setVars" "fixSrc" "doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
+      
+  fixSrc  =a.fullDepEntry ''
+    sed -e '/typedef void (\*__GLXextFuncPtr)/d' -i src/modules/graphics/opengl/GLee.h
+  '' ["minInit" "doUnpack"];
+
+  setVars = a.noDepEntry ''
+    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE -I${SDL}/include/SDL"
+    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE -I${freetype}/include/freetype2"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A Lua-based 2D game engine/scripting language";
+    maintainers = with a.lib.maintainers;
+    [
+      raskin
+    ];
+    platforms = with a.lib.platforms;
+      linux;
+    license = a.lib.licenses.zlib;
+  };
+  passthru = {
+    updateInfo = {
+      downloadPage = "http://love2d.org/";
+    };
+  };
+}) x
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b022a42ddae2..eb7db6f73437 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2490,6 +2490,8 @@ let
 
   kona = callPackage ../development/interpreters/kona {};
 
+  love = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love {};
+
   lua4 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-4 { };
 
   lua5 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-5 { };