Will love2d allow me to make a game with a 2D view of a 3D world?

[injeolmi.bingsoo]

Hi everyone. I’m super new to loved2d, to the extend that I have not even downloaded the engine. I heard about it from HarvardX’s course Introduction to Game Development.

I’m shopping around to find an engine for a game I have in mind. This is a game where a character walks up and down a spiral staircase, which makes this a 3D world/environment. However, the camera will always be above the character so from the player’s point of view, you’re looking at the top of the character’s head. The camera doesn’t move (i.e. it doesn’t follow the character) so a circle in the middle of the screen will be sufficient to represent the stairs the character is traversing. The game is a 2D one and will involve the character moving in x and y while the backdrop of the stairs change depending on where on the spiral staircase the character is at.

Does my description make sense? Please let me know if it isn’t or clarify parts that you thought were unclear.

Is this something that love2d can achieve? Would it be easy? Or are there other engines more suited for this purpose?

Looking forward to any thoughts and comments you guys might have. Thanks!

[MrFariator]

LÖVE can handle 3d even though 2d is in its name, because it has all the features you'd need for making a 3d game (or a game using 3d projection but 2d gameplay, like what you seem to be describing). For example, see ItsyRealm from one of the forum members. Would it be easy? Depends on your skill level, really. Do you have any experience in writing games, 3d or otherwise?

[pgimeno]

The hardest part of 3D games is usually physics, not graphics. Even if your game is going to have 2D graphics, depending on how you want to implement the 3D behaviour, physics is one potential problem, because Löve comes with a built-in 2D physics engine, but no 3D physics.