teilzeit wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 12:34 pm the problem of the player sort of "outrunning" their own projectiles

Every shmup I've seen, the bullets travel faster than the player is able to move. Bombs are slower, but outrunning bombs doesn't look weird.

Just to add to the above, you'll need to keep a list of all bullets and a list of all enemies, and whenever either is created it gets added to its respectie list, and when you detect a collision remove the bullet from the list of bullets and the enemy from the list of enemies. However, you shouldn't...

Nevermind, a system restart fixed it.

Two issues, one which is causing your code to break, and one which is just going to cause your code to act unexpectedly. The first is that instead of: px = love.mouse.getX you want to use: px = love.mouse.getX() The former is making px into a pointer to the getX function (so you could later call px(...

The effect you are describing occurs in most commercial shmups, so I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. But if you really want to worry about it, try adjusting the firing rate, so that you fire slower if moving forward and faster if you are moving backwards. There's probably some math you could ...

I'm developing on mac, but I'm using two different computers - one of which is using the OS for Ventura 13.0.0 and the other which has been updated to Ventura 13.0.1 On the computer running Ventura 13.0.0 everything works as I'd expect, but on the computer running Ventura 13.0.1 I seem to be getting...

Just got this version, and as far as I can tell highdpi is no longer working on Mac. Can someone confirm or deny?

Cheers,
-Kalev