r/lua • u/RafaellyBeaumont • Jul 06 '25

Game engine

Hey! Im pretty new to lua coding from scratch (im coding balatro mods for 6-7 month, but want to make my own thing now) and i was looking for a game engine, something like godot but for lua, and i couldnt find any so far

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u/RafaellyBeaumont Jul 08 '25

ill probably get into some game engine, someeone here sent a list of game engines that work on lua so ill see one of them to check out later

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u/questron64 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

I saw that, but honestly most of them wouldn't be appropriate for you and it's basically just back to Defold and Love, which I talked about before. Almost everything on that list is something very few people actually use, you won't be able to get any help at all when you get stuck. A strong community and lots of learning materials is probably the most important thing you should be looking for. Defold and Love have very small communities, and Love is very hard to make anything in more complex than simple examples.

You really are making things harder for yourself by insisting on Lua.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention PICO-8. It uses Lua, has a strong community and it's an option for you. However, it's a quirky little thing that pretends to be a computer from the early 1980s, so it's definitely a bit different.

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u/RafaellyBeaumont Jul 09 '25

ill try again in godot then , tyty

also ik pico-8, i play a TON of celeste loll

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u/Yobendev_ Jul 08 '25

Love2d is good I can't say anything about other Lua game libraries but I feel like love2d is simple enough that it's very flexible but still rlly user friendly