Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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I'm pretty new the the LOVE Lua (not lua it's self).
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Re: Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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Well, no, you can put love.draw pretty much anywhere in your code. But if you don't use it, your game isn't going to look very interesting.
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Re: Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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I guess you could do a conversational adventure or a roguelike using love.print only.
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Re: Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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kikito wrote:I guess you could do a conversational adventure or a roguelike using love.print only.
print(), not love.print() :P

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But if you use that, there is not really a reason to use LÖVE over just Lua.
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Re: Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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Robin wrote:But if you use that, there is not really a reason to use LÖVE over just Lua.
Other than not having Lua itself installed, of course. ;)
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Re: Do all games have to start off with love.draw?

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scirath wrote:Other than not having Lua itself installed, of course. ;)
Well, that is a bit silly. :P

Lua alone is about 100-200 KB IIRC, which is a lot less than LÖVE. Also, you usually don't have to install any dependencies for Lua. ;)
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