LÖVE

I'm currently looking to move from game maker to something else, I tried torque 2d but it seems you have to do more work than just with C++ and sdl/opengl/direct x etc.. So I found LOVE, and it feels a LOT like game maker at least with similar functions..

So that brings me to my question, how powerful is Love's particle system? As good or better than Game Maker's which... wasn't that good to begin with, or as good as torque 2d's which are awesome but with a weird game engine..

I'm currently looking to create a game similar to seiken densetsu 3/mana 3 and was wondering if lua was good enough to handle high end particles?

I thought you could actually do a lot with Game Maker's particles but the API sucked. Do you have a specific example of what couldn't be done in Game Maker? It's hard to determine what you mean by "good".

In my experience LOVE is better than Game Maker in almost every aspect besides the community size.

Kadoba wrote:I thought you could actually do a lot with Game Maker's particles but the API sucked. Do you have a specific example of what couldn't be done in Game Maker? It's hard to determine what you mean by "good".

In my experience LOVE is better than Game Maker in almost every aspect besides the community size.

The API is one of the reasons why I want to leave game maker, and besides it's a resource hog..

Kadoba wrote:In my experience LOVE is better than Game Maker in almost every aspect besides the community size.

You scared me there before I read the word "size".

Besides, size doesn't matter.

Particles seem fine as far as I can tell. This example runs fine on my crappy netbook:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7572962/najs.love

Any tutorials on particle effects? Or a demo?

Robin wrote: You scared me there before I read the word "size".

Besides, size doesn't matter.

Oh god. The Game Maker community is terrible. Like 4chan terrible. However it was nice to find quick solutions to everything and there were plenty of examples.

I much prefer the LOVE community though. Quality over quantity.