Legally, that's the default anyway. But what seems to work well is guilt-tripping: "pls don't use my source code I need the money ppl throw at my game to feed my cats, you don't want to be responsible for the malnutrition and eventual death of my cats, do you? LOOK AT HOW CUTE MY DYING CATS AR...

Back to the original topic: While you certainly make it harder to get to the code, it is still there, embedded into love.dll. Case in point, this is your code (extracted using a text editor): damn.. i did not know this was possible... ill have to figure out a workaround.,. BACK TO THE DEV CAVE! eve...

I find it amusing you believe lua bytecode conversion is any more protective than the append method. Granted you will discourage non-programmers from accessing your code, similar to adding a color warning for the blind. If you talking about the part when we use auto.lua to convert the lua code to a...

the only issue with creating the merged executable is that someone could open it with 7-zip and get the source code. the method that i made avoids it completely.

Closed source love2d games are possible and i have done it with the magical powers of C++ (which i have been programming in for 3 years now). A basic rundown of how to do it is 1. grab source code 2. throw the lua code in it 3. edit some code 4. compile the love the only reason why i am not making a...