LÖVE

Hey guys,

First of all I would like to say I am really enjoying working with LOVE2D, it's a brilliant tool to learn programming, and I'm doing quite well with my projects now.

I just have a question, a really basic question, but the website kinda presents two different opinions.

Title of the website : LOVE - Free 2D Game Engine
Introduction on main page: Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games[...]

So, this is why this question exists, and what I'm asking is:

Is love a Game Engine, or a Framework?

It's up for you to decide!
I tend to go with framework though. IT reminds me of XNA more than it reminds me of gamemaker.

Yeah, personally I'd rather say I'm working with a Framework than an engine. If I were using an engine it makes it sound... more lazy, like I can't be bothered coding something so I'll get an engine to do it all for me xD

Love pretty much just connects some game-related libraries and exposes it all to Lua. Sounds like a framework to me.

Definitely a framework.

Yeah that's what I thought
Therefore should'nt the title of the website be changed to "LOVE - Free 2D Game Framework" ?

A. It would make things clearer
B. It's what it is

There used to be a snippet that explained how LÖVE is actually more of a framework than an engine, but engine sounds cooler, and so that's what they called it.

nevon wrote:There used to be a snippet that explained how LÖVE is actually more of a framework than an engine, but engine sounds cooler, and so that's what they called it.

Yeah, where did that go? Ah, the old website...

Freakin' nostalgia. How can I be nostalgic for a period in time less than three years ago?

Robin wrote:a period in time less than three years ago?

Oh you sneaky bastard, you totally said <3, didn't you?

You can call it either. I personally go with engine, largely because its actually a standalone application and it uses a scripting language; its API is more like a framework though.