I really wish Nintendo would get rid of those NDAs, I wonder what their motivations are because to me this seems counter productive. Nintendo doesn't always make the most sound decisions so it might just be because they're used to it. It's a quality thing. Nintendo would rather release a few, high ...

I put all my saveable data into one table, and used a library called table_save to save and load it. It works fine, but could easily be swapped out for some other system if I wanted more security or whatever. My inventory and level state data are in sub-tables inside the main savedata table. The oth...

OK SO IM DONE, because I disabled the level[tableY - 1][tableX] and IT WORKED FINE AND THERE ARE ANOTHER 3 EXACT SAME LINES BUT IT'S JUST SMTH ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR LINE IM DONE This is the function: function drawTiles(level) ... local up = tableY < 0 --or level[tableY - 1][tableX] == 1 <- this is ...

You could draw the whole map to a canvas, and then just draw the canvas each frame. The problem there would likely be texture size, depending on how big your map is. Or you could draw a screenful to a canvas, or slightly more than a screenful to give you a bit of scrolling before you need to redraw....

Hello, I just posted my first ever project in the Games and Creations forum, and I have many novice questions, but this was perhaps the major annoyance of my first project. Font.getWidth(string) gives you the width of the string, taking embedded newlines into account. Font.getHeight() doesn't take a...

Hi, The Eye of Gath is a first-person dungeon crawler RPG originally written in 7 days for the Dungeon Crawler Jam 2021. The Jam version was hilariously incomplete, so I didn't mention it here, but now I've released an update filling it out a bit, and it's much more of an actual game. It's here: htt...