diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/11.1.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/11.1.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e92a84b40b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/11.1.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromBitbucket, pkgconfig, SDL2, libGLU_combined, openal, luajit,
+  libdevil, freetype, physfs, libmodplug, mpg123, libvorbis, libogg,
+  libtheora, which, autoconf, automake, libtool
+}:
+
+let
+  pname = "love";
+  version = "11.1";
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+  src = fetchFromBitbucket {
+    owner = "rude";
+    repo = "love";
+    rev = "${version}";
+    sha256 = "16jn6klbsz8qi2wn3llbr7ri5arlc0b19la19ypzk6p7v20z4sfr";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    SDL2 libGLU_combined openal luajit libdevil freetype physfs libmodplug mpg123
+    libvorbis libogg libtheora autoconf which libtool automake
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = "$shell ./platform/unix/automagic";
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-lua=luajit"
+  ];
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-DluaL_reg=luaL_Reg" ]; # needed since luajit-2.1.0-beta3
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://love2d.org;
+    description = "A Lua-based 2D game engine/scripting language";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.zlib;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 35daa86a6153..3d0b125b8a23 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7115,6 +7115,7 @@ with pkgs;
   love_0_8 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love/0.8.nix { lua=lua5_1; };
   love_0_9 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love/0.9.nix { };
   love_0_10 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love/0.10.nix { };
+  love_11 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/love/11.1.nix { };
   love = love_0_10;
 
   ### LUA MODULES