LÖVE

Hello all,

As the title suggests I'm brand new to game development and have decided to start out with Love and Lua.

A quick search of YouTube has given me a very long list of tutorial videos to watch and I also have the programming in Lua book to work through. I'll apologise now for the numerous questions I'll end up posting here, I promise to search the forum first.

I'm not entirely new to programming but its been a long time (text adventures on the ZX Spectrum sort of long time)

The main reason I'm starting with Love is while I have nothing against the big game engines I would prefer to learn how to do things myself. Once I have an understanding of it then fine I'll let the engine automate away a lot of it.. maybe I'll decide to just stick with Love.

This will be a hobby for me at least for now mostly making games for my kids and I have my 9-5 to pay the bills so I'm in no rush.

Thanks for listening

That was quite a nice and motivational read haha. Welcome to the game dev community. I hope you'll have a good adventure through development.

Hi, welcome to the forums! Ask away!

Welcome! Dont worry we will help you

Welcome to the community! Don't worry about the numerous questions! That just shows you have the drive to learn

Congrats for the best choice

I'm not a fan of YouTube videos,
I love Löve's API and I love to just scroll through the docs (Did I write love 3 times in the last phrase? Wops, 4)
There are some good tutorials out there, and people are willing to help you.
Best community I've seen in a while

Start making your game and ask for help when you have problems such as time travelling characters, upside down cars etc)

Not a big fan of videos either,studying others source code is a quick way to learn and I read this http://sheepolution.com/learn/book/contents