SpriteKit VS LÖVR

SpriteKit

SpriteKit makes it easy to create high-performance, power-efficient 2D games on Apple platforms.

LÖVR

Virtual Reality for Lua

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SpriteKit iPhone Game Dev - Jumping Ball Physics

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SpriteKit and LÖVR)

LÖVR

Game Development

26 26%

Game Development

74% 74

Game Engine

34 34%

Game Engine

66% 66

3D Game Engine

43 43%

3D Game Engine

57% 57

2D Game Engine

100 100%

2D Game Engine

0% 0

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Reviews

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SpriteKit Reviews

Top 10 Mobile Game Development Tools For Intellectual Games

If your motive is to develop and deploy a game only on Apple, then you could not find the best framework like SpriteKit. SpriteKit is Apple’s proprietary game engine to create 2D games. It is available on iOS and OS X and supports both Objective-C and Swift languages. A wide range of features comes in handy to create high performing battery-efficient 2D titles.

Source: unaryteam.com

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

Apple has launched its own game engine to create 2D games: SpriteKit. This platform supports both Swift and Objective-C languages and it offers developers a wide range of features that will help them in creating high-performance 2D titles. If you are thinking of developing a game for Apple this is the platform for you. Take note: if it’s supported by Apple it means that you...

Source: thetool.io

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, LÖVR seems to be a lot more popular than SpriteKit. While we know about 22 links to LÖVR, we've tracked only 2 mentions of SpriteKit. 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.

SpriteKit mentions (2)

App dev question - specifically IOS animation
I don't recommend it but what you are looking for is probably Spritekit. Maybe it can be useful to give you an easy start and get you more interested. Source: almost 2 years ago
iOS Game Development Path/Materials Suggestions
There are tutorials on https://www.raywenderlich.com that I can recommend. Also Apple's Documentation is usually good: https://developer.apple.com/spritekit/. Source: about 2 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 / 9 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 / 9 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: over 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