Corona SDK for desktop - legal?

Question

Game development

I chose the Corona SDK engine to create the first game. At first I resisted (OOO ANOTHER JAP, OOO C++ VAN LOVE), but then I thought that learning another language is not difficult, and the engine is kind of easy to learn. Yes, it is cross-platform, but for some reason it seems that it is designed for iOS / Android (the size and type of emulators, applications created on it). And I want to make a bagel for desktop. Will there be instructions?

Answer 1

And there will not be completely 100% cross-platform engines, because the platforms themselves are different. The desktop has a mouse, so in the game you can do "mouse over an object (or button)" followed by a tooltip, or you can do a "right click" to bring up the context menu. I'm talking about the keyboard in general. If you want all this, then either the path to the mobile will be closed, or you will have to make, as it were, two versions of the game. And this is not automatically picked up by the engine, but you yourself must decide how it will be in your game. Part of the keyboard buttons can be displayed on the screen, but not the entire keyboard, but as few buttons as possible. The right button can be emulated with a long press, etc. Accordingly, if you dance from a mobile application, then in the game the control will be very limited, primitive,
As far as Lua is concerned, it is practically the simplest language in the world. Learns in 15-30 minutes. All. It will take much more time to master the engine itself, its documentation, capabilities, API, etc.
PS As for the word "legally", I still don't understand what it has to do with the question.

Answer 2

You can do. But why?
What are the pros of Corona for Desktop that you found?
This is a good engine, but for non-mobile, Unity is more appropriate.

Answer 3

Try love2d for example. Also LUA, but richer GUI.
Here, for example, there are several UI examples at times:
https://github.com/love2d-community/awesome-love2d#ui