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2d Linux development Nodev 07/04/15 (Sat) 01:49:50 ffd953 No.19229

Progress general makes me really want to work on something.

Any specific recommendations for 2D engines or languages on linux? I'd like to be able to develop while using linux, not just port executables to it.

Nodev 07/04/15 (Sat) 07:21:34 8322ee No.19237

I do my games in the Love2d framework. It's built in C and uses Lua for its API. Runs fine on Linux, and is in my opinion the best 2D framework available.

Nodev 07/04/15 (Sat) 11:21:31 ffd953 No.19240

>>19237

I'll take a look, thanks!

Nodev 07/07/15 (Tue) 06:02:43 e8904c No.19315

Godot runs on Linux and is free like Murka and beer.

Have also heard good things about Love. However, is it more a lib, or a full dev suite?

Nodev 07/08/15 (Wed) 11:11:29 f00697 No.19358

>>19237

Love2D is pretty good. It stays out of your way, but it still gives you enough to make it relatively easy to do things.

Nodev 08/19/15 (Wed) 23:47:47 9952ff No.21082

Is there anything that uses Ruby? I've been learning it for RPG Maker stuff and I really like it so far.

Nodev 08/21/15 (Fri) 11:48:38 bb6e82 No.21126

>>21082

https://www.libgosu.org/

http://rubygame.org/

There are those however ruby is probably too slow for most games, even python would be a better choice.

Nodev 08/21/15 (Fri) 14:08:03 51af2a No.21129

OpenFL :^)

Nodev 08/22/15 (Sat) 06:06:23 be0e3e No.21145

Another vote for Godot.

Nodev 08/22/15 (Sat) 10:33:03 f21194 No.21148

If you don't mind programming in Java, you could check out libgdx (https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/). It includes a rendering engine (2D and 3D), physics simulation (Box2D for 2D), scene graph system, a particle editor, audio playback, and loads of other stuff. However, you are not bound to use any of these and can easily replace one or the other by your own solutions.

There is also an ambitious map/asset editor called Overlap2D (http://overlap2d.com/), but i don't know how functional it is at this point.

Nodev 08/22/15 (Sat) 11:30:43 bb6e82 No.21149

>>21148

Libgdx is brilliant, You can, if you hate Java and love clojure you can use play-clj ( which is libgdx with a clojure wrapper. But in general libgdx is very nice to use.

Nodev 08/22/15 (Sat) 21:44:08 bc52a9 No.21155

>>21126

Python is not significantly faster than ruby

Nodev 08/22/15 (Sat) 22:01:47 bb6e82 No.21156

>>21155

No, but it is a little bit faster, but neither are great choices for games other than light scripting

Nodev 08/23/15 (Sun) 23:41:52 ea0a40 No.21187

>>19315

>Have also heard good things about Love. However, is it more a lib, or a full dev suite?

LÖVE2D is more of a library like libGDX or PyGame. It doesn't come with an IDE, but it's still fairly easy and fool proof.

>>21148

>>21149

Another vote for libGDX. It's pretty fucking pleasant to work with it and the best thing about it is that you can use their own wrappers to make your life easier or access more "low level" functions and objects to do it yourself as you please.

Also, libGDX is compatible with every JVM language, so you can also go balls to the wall and use it with Scala, which is ideal if you dislike Java and being lost in stupid parenthesis.

Furthermore, you it is very easy to deploy for phones as the whole library is designed with touch devices in mind.