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I made an Android app in it, a collection of musical instruments to play. The engine was a joy to work in. Everything in its API is laid out neatly and easy to
by jmiskovic 3y ago
I made an Android app in it, a collection of musical instruments to play. The engine was a joy to work in. Everything in its API is laid out neatly and easy to remember. The code-only experience fits me perfectly - instead of stringing together some static assets I can focus on procedural animations and fun dynamical behaviors. The result feels more alive, like what Bret Victor describes in "Stop drawing the dead fish" talk.
Using LÖVE on Android was also pretty effortless. I could fire up a mobile text editor and fix Lua bugs or tweak animation constants. Every desktop feature worked the same on the phone. I could even tweak the audio framework to get optimal latency values. I would never get the chance to tweak under the hood had I chosen some closed source engine.
Since then I've "graduated" to 3D with LÖVR. It is completely different code with the same philosophy of surface simplicity and ample room for growth.
- belugacat 3y agoLink to the musical app?
- jmiskovic 3y agoIt's in my profile, I wanted to focus on experience with LÖVE instead of shilling. (thanks for interest!)
- belugacat 3y agounsolicited feedback you might care about or not: it doesn't run on my Pixel 6A :( shame, i was very excited to try it!
- jmiskovic 3y agoMy friend runs it on the same model. The next step would be to try LÖVE's official interpreter [1] and see that it runs. That app & the docs are actually all you need to develop a full application right on your mobile phone. You could fetch Hexpress's source code and put it on the /sdcard/lovegame and the official LÖVE interpreter should run it fine, just with more latency. If you'd like to pursue this further, please reach out on GitHub issues. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.love2d.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.love2d.and...
- belugacat 3y agoSorry I don't use Github. The Play Store says "This app isn’t available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android". I'm on Android 13.