Not bad, but a couple of issues:

The little smileys seem to have no purpose, and enemies seem pointless since touching them kills them. What causes the little smileys to die also seems unpredictable.

osgeld wrote:http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour

course it doesnt get you far with tiled maps since the data is in both base64 and gzipped

I think you can turn off gzip, though.

tiled uses base64 encoding which is pretty simple to decode, but the gzip compression has been abit more elusive within the lua/love world mappy on the other hand is a tad bit easier to read, but it seems much more difficult to make it mean something, due to its chunk structure and basicly nill doc...

Is there a way I can use a tile editing program to export a simple 2D array containing tile numbers to place in a map? It seems like every tile editor I use likes to either 64-bit encode map data or put it in an unnecessarily bloated array, containing labels all over. For example, say that tile 0 is...

A simple solution that works for me. Instead of defining every peice of ground in your world, just define a part of the player character which should be treated as the feet. So add a small extra shape to the body at the bottom of the character, and code your collision callback so jumping can only h...

Ok, let me try to understand what you're saying: Read a massive font-file for massive glyph usage (like Japanese characters or every variaton of OØÖÓ...) Make OpenGL textures of some of the glyphs, but not all Change which glyphs are textured in real-time, based on the history of usage of those gly...

I think you should add a function to change drawing order of sprites. Quite frankly, this would be much easier than putting them into a table and foreaching them.

I, personally, would prefer to do custom-programmed physics. They're not too hard in ordinary platformers, and physics engines may or may not be a bit iffy.

Notepad++. I picked it because it was the first thing that came to mind when I wanted syntax highlighting.

Google. This was the second thing that came up when I searched "2D Game Engine."