Livecode suitability for game development

[JoaquinViggo]

Are there examples in the wild of full-fledged games developed in Livecode?

I'm trying to figure out if it's capable of making an idle game, or incremental RPGish thing, with graphics of my own making, and I'd like to find any games produced in Livecode just to see how they look. I'm having a hard time finding examples of anything more than a Flappy Bird clone (which is interesting, but doesn't illustrate the sort of menus and screens I think I'd need). I also want to see to find out whether the apps produced run down battery quickly or anything.

[jacque]

If you're thinking of something like Myst, LiveCode is a good match. In fact, all the early Cyan games were made with HyperCard which was a predecessor of LiveCode. Their Cosmic Osmo game was ported to LiveCode years ago.

Memory usage will depend on the size and resolution of the images you use and a few other things but LC is very good with memory management.

Since you mention battery, will this be for mobile? If so you do need to plan for devices with less memory available.

I had a casual card game in the app stores for a few years but it's been taken down now.

[richmond62]

Games of the 'Battle for Wesnoth' type can also be made
in Livecode without great difficulty:

https://wesnoth.org/

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My proto game

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/4okvqzae3ydky ... e.zip?dl=0

[capellan]

Even games similar to early Pokemon games are easy to create in this platform.

[SWEdeAndy]

You can try my 2D retro space game, made entirely in LiveCode, here:
https://wheninspace.se/en/mesmerize/spacenode/

It's not notarized or certified anywhere, so your computer/security shield will complain a lot. But it's secure to download and run.
It has problems with animations sometimes getting choppy after playing for a while, especially on Windows. Put apart from that, it is a complete and enjoyable game (or so people say ).

If you don't want to download it, you can watch the short promo video on the same page, just to get the gist.

I'm currently working on a new game in the same vein, but better!

[stam]

In my limited experience, i would imagine it should be fully possible to make good quality games in LC - but there are downsides.
You may be better off using an off-the-shelf environment for creating games to save yourself a ton of time and effort.
I could find no real gaming framework (eg see here) to support development, which means a large amount of work creating this for yourself.
Having said that, if you do this and manage to abstract it significantly that could be a really interesting product