some maybe obvious questions, but: - are you remembering to remove entries from your notes table when they move offscreen? - are you creating duplicates of the sprite (eg. every frame as opposed to just when you initialize)? without any code, we can't really do anything except guess at what the caus...

@be-thomas Sounds like you would rather program in C, maybe you should look into SDL rather than complaining that a framework based on Lua does not support C features https://www.libsdl.org

Depends a bit on the type of data (eg. is it information about GUI layouts, a tilemap, etc.) but for a bunch of different game elements with varying abouts of stats/properties I usually use just a big list of tab separated values in the form index - stat - value - comment (if any) eg. my gamedata.tx...

here's the contents of the shell script that I use to execute a game. I use this so that I can print to the terminal. The file is called "run.sh" and is in the It is a plaintext file, which I then right-clicked, chose Open With > Other..., and then picked "Terminal" and checked t...

You mean art or data? Someone else can fill you in on art, but for tiles and map data: - for the individual tiles, you should decide what properties they need to have. do they block line of sight, what type or movement do you permit across them (flight, swimming, walking), do you want to represent t...

@Rickton Congratulations! To see you stick with it and work consistently at it has been super inspiring!

You cannot access [3][1][1][1] if [3][1][1] doesn't exist yet - I had this problem a lot when I was starting out with tables. This might mean that you are not building/nesting your tables correctly, and you end up missing some layers. You can add something like assert( [3], "missing layer 1&quo...

Random stuff I've pulled off Twitter and added to Bugzilla: ·When StackOverflow goes down, how do they figure out what's going wrong? ·Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. ·I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out...

A suggestion which has worked for me: 97% of my game is in pure lua, it never calls the Love API. Everything goes through a 'framework'-module that handles the actual API calls to things like reading/writing data, controller input, drawing stuff, etc. So when eg. love.graphics.drawq was removed I on...

You can specify multiple 'read files from this location'-paths by extending the package.path string with more read-locations. So if I wanted to add a path which contains a bunch of shared libraries I've written for string parsing and math, I could do something like: package.path = package.path .. &q...