i am currently making a game for a school project and i stumbled about a problem that has been bothering me. I can't seem to make the game restart. From the main.lua i use hump.gamestate to switch to the menu, then from there when a user presses the play button i again use the gamestate to switch to my game.lua where the game logic is. Now the problem:
From here, if switch to the menu again it all looks good and well but when i press play again it sends me back to the same state i was before when the game ended. I know i am probably doing something wrong so if anyone can guide me on how to restart the game with hump gamestate. Is there a way to dump all the state and then restart it? Because only using gamestate.switch() doesn't work for me.
I never used HUMP, but you could reset your variables when you press the "Play" button.
(ex. Every level you gain 1 hp, so you end up with 10 hp. When you enter the load function again you reset the hp to 0).
Otherwise call "love.load()" to reload the game once it ended
Also, please post a minimal code example where it doesn't work; that helps us help you more.
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You see, the init() method used to load data is set to nil by HUMP after it's called once.
What you can do, is to change your current init() method and rename it to loadState(), for example. Then, in the init() call loadState(). Whenever you need to restart the game, call loadState().
Chroteus wrote:You see, the init() method used to load data is set to nil by HUMP after it's called once.
What you can do, is to change your current init() method and rename it to loadState(), for example. Then, in the init() call loadState(). Whenever you need to restart the game, call loadState().
No, thats just making it way harder to use the state properly.
It's very simple: use gamestate:enter() not gamestate:init() since the latter runs once and only once, while enter runs each time.
Chroteus wrote:You see, the init() method used to load data is set to nil by HUMP after it's called once.
What you can do, is to change your current init() method and rename it to loadState(), for example. Then, in the init() call loadState(). Whenever you need to restart the game, call loadState().
No, thats just making it way harder to use the state properly.
It's very simple: use gamestate:enter() not gamestate:init() since the latter runs once and only once, while enter runs each time.
As far as I understood OP wants to restart the game to start a fresh game. So, :enter() won't cut it.
EDIT: To clarify my point, if he enters "pause" state while in game, it shouldn't restart the game with :enter() after unpausing.
