A bit late posting this, but I decided to participate in Ludum Dare again; it's been quite a while. I made this particle-effect-heavy top down shooter where you have to siphon life back from your enemies. Ludum Dare page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/siphon https://ebens.me/images/games/si...

Here's what you'd call an actual book. LÖVE for Lua Game Programming by Darmie Akinlaja published by Packt Publishing. Not sure whether I'd recommend it, I've never read it and it would be a bit outdated by now (published 2013).

Excellent! I'll have to give it a look when I get the time.

Noice. Does it also support __newindex? If so, this should allow me to greatly simply the accessors hack in Ammo.

Nice one! Thanks a lot for the kind review.

As stated on my LD comment, pleasant and somewhat amusing. Well done.

Yeah I should probably add a licence to the repo. I'll leave the music zlib. In its current state I'm not worried about it being used without credit; people do that anyway and I didn't put much effort (comparatively) into it. If I extend the song at a later date I'll change the licence.

Thanks for the positive feedback qubodup and also for recording gameplay. Helps me see how others approach it. It was kinda amusing watching you pick attack upgrades over and over and then getting stuck on wave 6 (where the shield can bail you out of some shitty situations). You did really well to g...

Not to go off-topic, but I hope everyone in this thread has played BlackBulletIV's Super Space Invader. It's seriously a rad game :megagrin: Thanks brother. That was kinda the original topic. I haven't had enough time yet, but I plan on playing every LÖVE LDXXXIV game Yeah I'm gonna do the same, al...

But who uses a 1024x768 for a desktop these days? cheap PC laptops And hence why I said I forgot about laptops (such things are foreign to me :P). I'm not sure why this is such a big deal though; it's a Ludum Dare game dude. Everything is coded around love.graphics.width/height anyway (hence why kb...