Love with an ö

Love with an ö

dthompson

Member #5,749

April 2005

I've been playing around with Löve recently. As heavily-scripted game frameworks go (Lua), it seems pretty good, and actually affords a fair amount of DIY - which is nice to see, coming from Allegro.

I decided to give it a try after I found this Boingboing article. Considering my criteria for a higher-level game engine/framework:

Libre licensing
Versionable scripting; not completely dependent on a GUI builder
Generic; not locked down to one genre
Cross-platform (and mobile would be nice, though not required)
Not reliant on Electron / Cordova / anything built on web tech
Well-used, well-supported

So, of the frameworks shown in Boingboing's pie chart, this pretty much just left Löve and Godot. I've yet to try the latter; it also looks good, though a lot heavier.

Also: I've never touched Lua before. It's not half bad. I guess I'd only ever known it as the thing you use to create crappy weapons for LieroX.

_{Still gonna spend the majority of my time hacking away with Allegro though, aren't I?}

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Erin Maus

Member #7,537

July 2006

My game, ItsyRealm (locked depot thread here), is written mostly in Love. I've had to make some modifications and hoist some of the more CPU intensive stuff to C++ but it's been really awesome so far.

I highly recommend Love. Lua is a great programming language and Love is a great framework.

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ItsyRealm, a quirky 2D/3D RPG where you fight, skill, and explore in a medieval world with horrors unimaginable.
they / she

dthompson

Member #5,749

April 2005

That's awesome - so it's good with 3D stuff too?

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Erin Maus

Member #7,537

July 2006

Yes it is. I have a deferred renderer with a forward pass for translucent objects and it works really well.

I made a few modifications to Love to have a better 3D pipeline but it can be done nearly as easily with vanilla. I just wanted 3D perspective transforms to work natively with the built in shader instead of having to use custom shaders for everything.

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ItsyRealm, a quirky 2D/3D RPG where you fight, skill, and explore in a medieval world with horrors unimaginable.
they / she

Edgar Reynaldo

Major Reynaldo

May 2007

So does that sound like Loove?

EDIT
HAHA no pun intended

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MiquelFire

Member #3,110

January 2003

The funny thing is, Bitbucket is dropping support for Mercurial next year, so they need to change the host for their coding, or if they want to continue using Bitbucket, they need to convert to Git.

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Chris Katko

Member #1,881

January 2002

I thought love with an ö was an allegro based game on the Steam store...

Nope, I guess it's just love with an o.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/269270/LOVE/

sequel with more great music:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/578930/kuso/

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