LÖVE
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Hi there! LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.
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- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- FreeBSD
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- soul1472 updated LÖVE
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AI Slopfree Software Catalog
A more optimistic homage to the slopware catalog https://alternativeto.net/lists/44427/slopware/, this list is designed to showcase projects, both FOSS and proprietary, which reject contributions from Generative AI LLM slop machines. The most pessimistic thing about this list is how short it is and how so many commonly used software solutions and websites are not included.
I have to give it up to the following sites for providing references:
https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index
https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies
There are a lot more projects on this list which I didn't include because they aren't on AlternativeTo (yet). I'll be adding more entries to this site (and removing those who fold to the AI overlords) on a regular basis. I'm including references, which are all first-hand declarations from the development teams for each entry to ensure items aren't included based on hearsay or conjecture.
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Comments and Reviews
Love it how easy and simple to get started and for being portable, comes with everything included no setup needed. You can just download, code and run your code. Perfect for beginners but comes with lot of features and libraries to satisfy even advanced users. Also like the way you can package your project in to a .love file and share it and run it with Love2D. Neat little framework. Lovely!
Love2d is a lovely framework for people wanting to learn game development. It's written in C++, which means it will perform well, and it uses LUA to interface with its API. And LUA is a good starting point for beginners.
The only issue I have is the is the poor documentation.
[Edited by SiliconThings, November 29]