Terraria engine

[naburus]

I'd like to make a game like Terraria, my purpose is to learn, so I'm looking for an engine. Can i do this with löve?

[Robin]

Yes.

However, you may not succeed at first. Making games is a craft, one that you'll have to learn by making games. The first few games you'll make will be small and will suck. However, once you have the necessary experience, you can use LÖVE to make a Terraria clone (several others have done so before, you can find posts about them on these forums.

[Davidobot]

I am working on a Terraria-esc game right now, feel free to look around the code, but I did not post the updated game to the forums just yet, which includes infinite terrain and inventory, but here you go: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9729

[naburus]

Ty the answer and the sourcecode, very usfeul.

[Eamonn]

Yes! It's 100% possible! Almost any imaginable 2D game(within reason) is possible to create. I want to talk about game development in general:

As Robin said, game development is a craft. You will make other games. Your first game might be the product of 100 other crappy unfinished games. I got my first game out within the first month of me starting LÖVE. I don't know how to be honest. Your first game, like my first game, might not be intended to be a game and just to be a test. So, LÖVE can make any sort of 2D game, as long as you know how to make it. If you can't use LÖVE that well, you may not be able to make 2D games. If you're a pro at it, you could make an amazing game. Mari0 was created with LÖVE. That gams is very complex. There isn't really such a thing as "Can LÖVE make X 2D game?", because it can. As long as it's 2D(within reason), LÖVE can do it. It's hard to word, but I'm sure you get the point.

So, yes: LÖVE can make a Terraria game.