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As opposed to a 2D Game Engine in Kotlin Working with Kotlin? Why?!?

Lua is easy to learn, dynamically typed and doesn't need to be compiled: it's perfect to get instant reload and it's perfect for small projects.

If you want to create games using Kotlin, you can try my 3D Game Engine: minigdx (https://github.com/minigdx/minigdx).

Or other game engine:

- https://littlekt.com/ (LittleKt (Little Kotlin) is a multiplatform 2D game framework written in Kotlin)

- https://korge.org/ (Korge - Modern Multiplatform Game Engine for Kotlin.)

- https://libgdx.com/ (LibGDX, it's for Java but you can use Kotlin, if you don't want to target the web platform)

Because Lua is popular among game development enthusiasts? It is THE scripting language of game development. It's the language of choice by Roblox Studio.

I'd say its the language of choice for game modding (which roblox pretty much is) specifically, but not game dev as a whole. In fact I'd go so far as to say its not used in game-dev enough, it seems to be greatly under-appreciated. The only engines I can think that use it are PICO-8 and Love2D.

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