Lövely Interviews - Midipixel on Warlock's Tower

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Submitted by Sheepolution on Tue, 01/31/2017 - 14:13
In Lövely Interviews, I interview developers of LÖVE and LÖVE games. Today the LÖVE game Warlock's Tower by Midipixel was released on Steam. I interviewed Ygor and Werther from Midipixel on the development of Steam's newest LÖVE game.
 
Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you do?
We're Werther and Ygor, two guys in their thirties, a musician/artist and a programmer, respectively. With our powers combined we make Midipixel, a Brazilian indie game company now existing for three years in a row. We make indie games, obviously, although we've done client work in the past. We participate in game jams as well (GBJam is our favorite) and the occasional experiment here and there. We're also part of a Rio de Janeiro collective of indie game developers called RING.

Lövely Interviews - bartbes

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Submitted by Sheepolution on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 09:55

In Lövely Interviews I interview developers of LÖVE and LÖVE games. And this time we interview bartbes. Together with slime he is one of the main developers of the LÖVE framework.

Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you do?

Starting off with the hardest question, I see. I'm Bart, a long-time LÖVE
developer — since 0.6.0, if memory serves — and otherwise boring student.

Lövely Interviews - Maurice from Stabyourself.net

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Submitted by Sheepolution on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 12:05

In Lövely Interviews, I interview developers of LÖVE and LÖVE games. This time I'm interviewing Maurice from Stabyourself.net, who is known for creating the Mario/Portal mashup: Mari0.

Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you do?

We are a two-man developer team, that is Sašo and me, Maurice. Sašo does anything website and hosting related while I program all the games. He also helps me with bouncing off ideas.

We make games for fun that you can download from our website for free. It's not about making money but instead creating something that people will enjoy and maybe be surprised by.

Lövely Interviews - slime

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Submitted by Sheepolution on Thu, 09/01/2016 - 08:32

In Lövely Interviews I interview developers of LÖVE and LÖVE games. And this time we interview slime, who is the biggest contributor of LÖVE, with over 1300 commits.

Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you do?

Hello! I’m Alex. I’m a software developer currently working in the games industry in Nova Scotia, Canada. I’ve been contributing to LÖVE’s development in my free time since around the end of 2012. I’ve also made a few games using LÖVE, and I’m a regular contributor to the SDL library, which is used extensively by LÖVE.

Garbage Collection in LÖVE

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Submitted by bartbes on Sat, 07/16/2016 - 15:18

I recently got a message on the forums asking me about the way LÖVE does garbage collection on its objects, and I figured they probably aren't the only ones interested, so here's an expanded answer.

As some of you may know, LÖVE is written in C++, which features manual memory management, and Lua has garbage collection. How do we solve this mismatch? Why, with another way to manage memory, of course! I'll start off by explaining the Lua GC (Garbage Collector), then quickly discuss C++'s model, followed by LÖVE's solution.

Lövely Interviews - rude

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Submitted by Sheepolution on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 06:52

In Lövely Interviews I interview developers of LÖVE and LÖVE games. We start off this series with rude, the creator of LÖVE.

Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and what do you do?

Yes, well, I am rude, the original creator LÖVE. These days I don't actually work on the code anymore (though I might resume at some point), but I still do all the design related work, e.g. the new icons, the no-game screens (e.g. Super Toast), the website design, etc. At least I do that eventually, after I get enough harassment from bartbes and slime.

In the making - have a look at running LÖVE projects

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Submitted by Sheepolution on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 18:56

I asked on Twitter "Are you making a game with LÖVE? Show us what you're making!"

And these are the replies I got:

Wanderer by @wanderer_game

A 2D adventure game blending cinematic platformer and RPG, and LÖVE is perfect for it!

A Beginner's Guide to Shaders

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Submitted by OmarShehata on Sun, 06/29/2014 - 08:45

Ever since shaders were introduced in Löve (previously called Pixel Effects) they have been shrouded in mystery and myth.

Let it glow! - Dynamically adding outlines to characters

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Submitted by Germanunkol on Sat, 04/05/2014 - 13:43

Hello everyone,

I'm Micha, aka "Germanunkol". I recently took a course at university on image manipulation and was thrilled by the possibilities - fourier and hugh transformations, filters, noise - there are so many ways to make graphics look better. At the same time, so few Löve projects use shaders - and I want to contribute to changing that.

Preview of outline shader

Lövely Code #01 - Ternary Operations

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Submitted by Lafolie on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 19:34

Hello world, err, lövers! My name is Dale James and I'm writing to introduce you to one of my favourite things you can do in Lua, which is called a Ternary Operation.

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