Right. Fortunately I'm not doing anything like this. I preload all resources in one place and reuse them, even canvases.

Right, thanks. So it seems like there's no real obvious way to tell. I'm guessing for now I should just keep working on things and keep an eye out. I'm probably worrying over nothing.

So this question isn't about diagnosing where they come from but more how you know if one is occurring. I've been told the task manager is a good place to check, but it seemingly updates so slowly that it's hard to tell. Over the course of my game, memory usage seems to steadily rise from ~70mb to ~...

It's more of a "framework". There is no built-in scene tree, game objects, draw ordering, GUI system, or anything like that. There are some main lifecycle callbacks (load, update, draw, etc.) and input callbacks, and then various modules with functions to help you do what you want. See: h...

I see that it says an engine on the website and wiki, but to me that conjures up images of built in support for entities, scenes, collisions etc... Is Love like that, or is it more of a framework, giving you a main loop and options for rendering, playing audio and things, with the developer building...