Bumping due to the relatively large amount of changes since original post (see above and below) and time since original post to collect gameplay feedback. Additionally, the following changes were made in the most recently uploaded .love: - I removed calculations for max grapple distance based on win...

Hello All, I decided to post a prototype of the game I've been working on for feedback. This is my first game, and the whole thing started from an experiment playing around with a demo included in an earlier version of Kikito's bump library. It makes use of some excellent ideas there (including the ...

I've always used vi. I am such a creature of habit that I only recently started using the (admittedly amazing) features of vim to optimize my behavior while writing.

Kikito's method makes a ton of sense to me, but here is what I've been doing so far: I populate a table called Commands with an action (or direction) and the associated key, then stick that somewhere in an easily modifiable area of game options. Then in my love.update(), I do a for loop through that...

Initially I selected it because I was looking for a well-documented game development environment that would let me maximize my existing scripting skills without forcing me to overcome basic programing obstacles to get even a small project off the ground. Basically I wanted something that allowed me ...