LÖVE

[GMG Tim]

My brother passed this on and thought some of you might be interested in it, from the website:

LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Link: http://love2d.org/

-Tim

[Gan]

Oh man, I love this!
It's my kinda language and there's a built in physics engine!!!

Is there no IDE? Do we gotta compile via terminal and write all code in txt files?

P.S. It so closely resembles Obj-C I wonder if I can take the physics engine out of it and convert to Obj-C.... or at least learn how it works.

[WarHampster]

Lua is nothing like Obj-C...

[Gan]

function love.load()
   image = love.graphics.newImage("cake.jpg")
   local f = love.graphics.newFont(12)
   love.graphics.setFont(f)
   love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0,255)
   love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255,255,255)
end

It's semi-C lookin. I like the look of it.

[WarHampster]

I like the look of Lua precisely because it looks nothing like Obj-C, which is why I'm confused. Anyway, I've never used Love and have only used Lua briefly, but I have heard great things about both the engine and the language.

[GMG Tim]

Yeah it's Lua, which is not a C-type language, but rather a scripting language more similar to BASIC. I don't think there is an IDE, but I may be wrong.

-Tim

[GMG Mike]

The syntax looks more like REALbasic (which was initially derived from Java, which was initially derived from C++).