Depending on your needs, the following may work more simply, or may not be practical at all. * A: Put the whole double loop structure inside a function, and use return to get out when the time comes. (Not good in situations where having a function call every time you do the double loop is too costly...

That's an elegant addition. I assume other code projects can use it with credit?

That function doesn't return anything. So if you say: myQuad = quad(etc etc etc) ...after defining that function, it evaluates quad to nil. Fortunately, .lua lets us treat functions like any other kind of data, so you don't need to go through so many hoops to make a convenient alias! Try this: quad ...

You could use love.filesystem.enumerate to get the names of all files in the folder as strings, then use a for loop to iterate over the keys and values in the list that returns (see the example in the docs), and then use each string as an argument to require each file, I think.

I'm pretty new, but I'd consider it. I'm working on a visual novel/adventure-y thing, and I'd love to meet people.

That said, it would be nice if it were near public transit, as I'd have to come from SF.

I'm also learning metatables, so let me try to work you through as straightforward an explanation as I can manage, building a jury-rigged class-ish thing one step at a time. Maybe explaining to you will improve my own understanding. Please follow along as I go; you're more likely to feel it really c...