ggez VS love

Sounds like https://ggez.rs/.

Nice, can you add it to the list of projects https://github.com/ggez/ggez/blob/master/docs/Projects.md ?

ggez simple example (not working): https://github.com/ggez/ggez/tree/master/examples/01_super_simple.rs ggez bunnymark (works in batched mode only): https://github.com/ggez/ggez/blob/master/examples/bunnymark.rs wgpu example (working): https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/tree/master/wgpu/examples/hello-triangle

I’ve used https://ggez.rs for side projects and have been happy with it.

I've previously used ggez for simple pet projects, and have found it to be fairly simple for what you're describing

Take a look at https://github.com/ggez/ggez/blob/master/examples/spritebatch.rs

Alongside macroquad, ggez is also quite popular for 2D, It aims to implement an API based on a Rustified version of the LÖVE framework

I did look at GGEZ as well, and you probably should too.

Rust is a general purpose programming language. It can do low level systems programming but it's also highly capable of doing web backends, web frontends (wasm), game design, small utility scripts, etc.

A big thing people learning Rust do my mistake is to try and use all of the low level features straight away. Rust has tools like Rc, RefCell, Arc, and RwLock that let you have a garbage collected language (well, reference counted) and not worry about any of the low level memory management details.

See things like https://ggez.rs/ for games and https://www.arewewebyet.org/ for web stuff.

Although honestly I think if you're looking for a "hot" backend web language I'd say Elixir is the more well designed one than Go.

Love2D is a fantastic game engine that uses Lua. It could be a good spot to start if you are interested in making games.

A few simple game engines use it as their primary language, like PICO-8 and Love2d.

I compiled this framework, love2d, on my pi zero, though it has an app-image now. I didn't *really* know how to program at the time so I never did anything with it, but the demo ran at ~80 fps on an HD monitor I had it plugged into. It's a great framework, basically lua married to SDL and a bunch of other libraries. Ease of lua, speed of C through Luajit's FFI.

I've mostly switched over to love2d for this: https://love2d.org

There are beginner-friendly engines like Love2D. Getting started with something like that should be straightforward provided one has basic programming notions. Otherwise, learning C (or C++) and exploring the internals for yourself will teach you a lot more about programming and data structures than using whatever web technology webdevs are using to inflict pain upon themselves these days.

https://love2d.org/

- Lua bspw. mit Löve https://love2d.org

Coming from a similar use case, I'm all in on LÖVE (https://love2d.org) You can see some of the things I built with it at http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

Löve2D (2D game engine which uses Lua for user logic)

bro

It seems like all the game logic is implemented in the Data/*.lua files and the binary just provides the GUI. I'm tempted to try to throw together a LÖVE interface for this to make it platform independent.