Gideros VS LÖVR

Gideros

Clean OOP approach. Gideros provides its own class system with all the basic OOP standards, enabling you to write clean and reusable code for any of your future games.

LÖVR

Virtual Reality for Lua

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2023-09-18

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2023-02-08

Gideros -- Open Source Lua Powered Mobile Game Engine

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Gideros and LÖVR)

LÖVR

Game Development

27 27%

Game Development

73% 73

Game Engine

35 35%

Game Engine

65% 65

3D Game Engine

46 46%

3D Game Engine

54% 54

2D Game Engine

100 100%

2D Game Engine

0% 0

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Reviews

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Gideros Reviews

The Best 15 Mobile Game Engines / Development Platforms & Tools in 2020

With Gideros is an open sourced and free platform. You can create amazing games and launch them in different platforms with no need to make additional changes thanks to its cross-platform functionality. Gideros uses the same scripting language as Corona: Lua. You can also test your game on a real device and in real time, isn’t it exciting? Try this tool and tell us in the...

Source: thetool.io

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, LÖVR seems to be a lot more popular than Gideros. While we know about 22 links to LÖVR, we've tracked only 1 mention of Gideros. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Gideros mentions (1)

Becoming an Indie Game Developer with Gideros Studio
Gideros Studio is a free and open-source development environment to make cross-platform 2D games in a easy and quick way. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

LÖVR mentions (22)

LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
Also do not forget the VR/3D version, LÖVR: https://lovr.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?
I haven't used many engines, but I've been programming some simple games with LÖVE [0] and (to a lesser extent) LÖVR [1] and like them both. But maybe not real game engines, as you need to do quite a bit of work by yourself. I guess it depends what your definition is of a game engine. --- [0]: https://love2d.org [1]: https://lovr.org. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Is it really bad using an unpopular framework?
Not to mention there's LÖVR as well if you want to 3D. Source: about 1 year ago
Is it okay to ask a question about Lovr here?
As for your question - yes, it's possible to develop for the Quest. The website has information on how to do that. Source: about 1 year ago
Lua, a Misunderstood Language
I'll add LOVR (https://lovr.org/), the 3D analog to LOVE. Haven't used it personally so ymmv. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago