Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI made one of the first big commercially successful games with with LÖVE (Move or Die - https://moveordiegame.com/). Highly enjoyed it. We had a devblog, doesn't exist anymore unfortunately. The thing I enjoyed the most was the flexibility of Lua, and the whole framework seemed to adopt that mindset. It gave you all the core pieces you need it (audio, input, physics, rendering), and then got out of your way. The drawback to the full flexibility is having to spend…
With the wife and boys out of town for a few nights, I took one afternoon to see what I could make in 4 hours. I was really pleased with aspects of the language and libraries that, compared to my language of trade (C/C++), enabled me to add features almost as quickly as I could think of them. A+ would use again, especially if they could figure out mobile platforms.
I often wonder why Lua isn't more popular in general - it's really a pretty good language. Seems like it exists primarily in the game environment. Or maybe it's just because World of Warcraft uses it and thus the elephant in the room makes the search results look skewed.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 674
- Total comments
- 199
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-02-10 | 2d game engine for lua | freedrull | 1 | 1 |
| 2012-03-23 | Create 2D games in Lua and LÖVE.First breakout | therockhead | 101 | 18 |
| 2013-12-14 | LÖVE (2D Game Engine) 0.9 is out | bpierre | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-05-23 | Anyone with offline version of love2d Ubuntu Linux? | jongi_ct | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-08-26 | LÖVE 2D | tosh | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-05-23 | LÖVE – Free 2D Game Engine | ______- | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-10-26 | LÖVE – A 2D game engine that allows for rapid development using Lua | 2pEXgD0fZ5cF | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-12-27 | Love2d – framework for making 2D games in Lua | nassimsoftware | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-09-13 | LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in LuaHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | rapnie | 556 | 180 |