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Anyone using Love2D/Lua? (www.lua.org)

submitted 1 year ago by NukeminHerttua@sopuli.xyz to c/gamedev@lemmy.ml

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Just out of curiosity: is anyone here using Love2D and Lua for game development? I have some experience with Unity but sometime ago started learning Love2D. Lua seems to very simple language to code in and since Love2D doesn't have any graphical UI it sort of forces you to make everything work through code. As a beginner hobbyists, I really love this.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about Love2D and what it's capable of. Currently I am interested in doing asmall Snake-like puzzle game and a demo for classic Ultima type crpg. Not really full games, but I am sort of interested in seeing how well certain concepts and ideas work in practice. Lua seems to be very good for doing just that.

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[–] the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it. I am learning it now! You can even develop it on android if you are out of home without your laptop, here how i develop on android with termux app.

#start love2d with commandline alias run="am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d content://com.mixplorer.file/525!/projects/Love/game.love org.love2d.android/org.love2d.android.GameActivity"

make .love file with command line $zip -9 game.love *lua

now run it $run

[–] NukeminHerttua@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's nice!

I'd like to be learning more, but since I'm busy with work and family there's not many hours to put in each week. I am new to coding so it doesn't help much but I hope I'll get there eventually. Cheers!

[–] tun@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Harvard game dev course use it for the course.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/games/2018/

[–] NukeminHerttua@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Wow! This looks handy. Thanks!