I’m making a roguelike dungeon crawler and I’m batting around number of different questions for my game, like if items should be sellable. That is, should the player have a reason to carry items they don’t intend to use. If no, the inventory should limit their ability to carry assistive items like p...

Please don’t edit /etc/paths. If you’re trying to add something to your path, you would edit the environment variable PATH, but that shouldn’t be necessary for this. VS Code had a love2d extension that adds a command to run the love executable with the current project. You can just install love2d as...

You absolutely do not have to use classes or OOP in Love2D. In fact, in my game, I don’t use any classes at all, just tables and functions. I generally dislike OOP. It is an okay system for code organization, but makes it really difficult to track object lifecycles in my experience. So just write yo...

You probably shouldn’t use coroutines to solve architectural problems for your game. First of all, coroutines in Lua don’t give you parallel execution. You’re still running with one thread, that thread is just bouncing between different stacks as it moves from one coroutine to another. You need to u...

That’s weird, does it change anything if you use multiple return values instead of returning a table?

You don’t even have to sort the list of enemies. For each tower, walk through the list of all enemies (using a for loop), keeping track of the “closest enemy so far” and how far away from the tower they are. When you get to the end of the list, you know “closest so far” is actually the closest, peri...

Honestly don’t worry about performance at first, there re ways to make collision checking faster later (using some kind of spatial partitioning data structure for everything your player could collide with). Having blocks that each have their own dimensions and a position that isn’t necessarily snapp...

If you’re hung up on efficiency, hence having trouble choking from your 10 ideas, try not to worry about it!

If that’s not possible, implement Bobbie68’s idea as a ring buffer.

I don’t k is what anim8 is, but it expects its first parameter to be a positive integer and you aren’t passing anything.

Is this all of the code? If not then you need to provide everything you’ve written. Right now I don’t see self.x and self.y being set anywhere.

Also, for context, what, if any, programming background do you have?