Can I create an engine on top of Love?

[zayadev]

Hello! I'm Zaya, I'm a Love developer who loves the Love framework and the Lua language, I saw few options for modern engines to create games with Lua and I decided to create my own.
Can I use Love to generate graphics and sounds? If so, can I change the name of some functions? And about licenses, how should I proceed with them, if I can use love in my engine?

[darkfrei]

This?
https://github.com/love2d/love/blob/main/license.txt
https://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html

[zorg]

What do you mean exactly by generating graphics and sounds? Procedural stuff? Sure, you can programmatically make both graphics and sounds with ImageData and SoundData objects, for starters.

[ivan]

What do you mean exactly by generating graphics and sounds? Procedural stuff? Sure, you can programmatically make both graphics and sounds with ImageData and SoundData objects, for starters.

I think the original poster is eluding to creating/modifying assets within the Love2D application itself - sort of like an editor.

[Lovingsoul1337]

I think yes but for a commercial one where this me to risky(but im just beginner coder)

eventually some other's here will answer aswell ?

and i personally would eventually recommend opengl or c++ + opengl or lua + opengl and write your engine from scratch not with a already somewhat overblown and people pleasing framework.

i had a similiar idea in mind about making a game engine with c++ and sfml.

[zorg]

I think yes but for a commercial one where this me to risky(but im just beginner coder)

eventually some other's here will answer aswell ?

and i personally would eventually recommend opengl or c++ + opengl or lua + opengl and write your engine from scratch not with a already somewhat overblown and people pleasing framework.

i had a similiar idea in mind about making a game engine with c++ and sfml.

There's nothing risky about making an engine on top of löve, except in terms of you potentially wasting time and/or your life away with it, so that statement of yours was probably not the best one to say.

Also, löve already is written in c++, uses openGL, and allows you to code in lua (and to load c libraries as well, should you need them) so you don't need to reinvent the wheel from scratch.

[Lovingsoul1337]

yea but if she doe's then she has so much in her engine she doesn't know of and so many things she never needed.

i personally if i had the skills wouldn't wanted this for my engine.

[zorg]

Thankfully you are not other people.