New to love not to lua, how to start?

[matjojo]

Hi all,

Like the title says, I'm new to Love, but have done some things in Lua before. I followed the install instructions on the wiki, followed getting started, and set up my Sublime Text-3 version to work with all the things that the getting started page said, it now builds on CTRL-b, and can autocomplete using Love code. Until this part the tutorials were very helpful, but after those it got a bit less helpful. I read up on the callback functions, and played around a bit with them, seeing what I could do with the different events. After this I still didn't really get how I could use Love, so I went ahead to the tutorials page but did not really found what I needed. The page tells me that it itself is broken, and I can't really seem to find the beginner tutorials.

That brings me to my questions:
How do I start?
Are there things on this forum that I should read, or do?

Thanks, matjojo

[raidho36]

Try making a pong game. In the process you'll find you need answers for specific questions, which you are then welcome to ask.

[Sheepolution]

When you scroll to the bottom of the tutorials page you can see external tutorials and video tutorials, some of these explain how to start. I have a tutorial series myself.

[ken.athomos]

If it is okay with you, I would to redirect you to this thread.

Hope some of the stuff we have said in that thread helps

[matjojo]

Thanks guys, I've found my way to the external tutorials, and followed the OSM one, now reading through the ones made by sheepolution \0/. That indeed gives me a better idea for how Love works. I'll be doing what raidho36 said and try to make a little game to get some more of a feel with the system.

[Beelz]

Just keep in mind, things may be a hair off in the tutorials... Although LOVE 0.10 has been out for what, a year or so, a lot of tutorials were written for older versions. Usually just subtle things, depreciated functions, etc. I know Sheepolution's are current, and a few others but I haven't honestly spent a ton of time reading up on them.

[xNick1]

When you scroll to the bottom of the tutorials page you can see external tutorials and video tutorials, some of these explain how to start. I have a tutorial series myself.

I recommend his tutorials, they're great for beginners