I don't like how the line "about it" looks out: I solved this by printing a paragraph at a time, left aligning the last line for each paragraph. For basic text printing it's a lot of extra work, but I was already handling paragraphs to get text to wrap around images. Screen Shot 2023-12-1...

Great idea! I modified the love.graphics.print in your example to get the exact effect I was looking for: love.graphics.printf({{1,1,1,1}, whiteString, {1,1,1,0}, blackString}, 10, 10, 200, "justify") For anyone else looking at this, the key idea is to print all the text at once, but make ...

I'm trying to implement the effect you see in many games where text is printed a character at a time. (See the original Dragon Quest for an example.) On its own this is easy: all one needs to do is keep a counter then use string.sub and utf8.offset to print a substring that gets longer and longer. T...