Better way of reloading the game? My current method is causing some bugs.

[ken.athomos]

Good day everyone!

Currently doing my third game project. It's a simple twitch-based game (not the streaming service). You basically change your color to "phase through" the falling blocks. Technically, I've done all of the core mechanics that I need (minus the collisions) but the way I'm trying to reset certain variables to their defaults are causing some slow down bug.

The bug is that when am restarting for a new game, there are still some left over blocks from the previous instance that are slowly falling down instead of not being there.

I was wondering if it's how I've programmed the game and specifically the resetting of values that's causing this issue? I really want you guys two cents on this one. (While we're at it, I would really appreciate it if someone would discuss to me the best way of handling the reloads, as well as any stupid or improper thing I've done)

So this is how you can replicate the bug:

1. Start a New Game.
2. On the Game State, wait until there are at least 2 blocks on the screen.
3. When there are at least 2 blocks on the screen, press the "Escape" button to pause the game.
4. On the pause screen, press "Escape" again to return to the Title screen.
5. Start a New Game again.

By this time you'll see at least 1 block that's slowly (sometimes not even) falling go down.

EDIT: I'm not using any libraries btw and I would currently refuse to do so for this project for the sake of learning.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is going to reply to this post.

Also please pretend that I'm a five year old when explaining stuff to me if that's okay

Huge shoutout to xNick whose been entertaining my questions for the past few days now
If you're wondering why I'm not messaging him again about this, it's because I already feel bad for asking a lot of consecutive questions XD

Project 3.love

Project 3 - Twitch-based Game

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[xNick1]

You forgot to reset those 2:

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blockID = 0
blockTime = 35

so:

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elseif key == 'escape' then
	 	selectedState = 'title'
		redBlocks = {}
		greenBlocks = {}
		blueBlocks = {}
		colorState = 1
		timer = 0
		score = 0
		blockID = 0
		blockTime = 35

	end

They're local, so you need to make them public.

That made the trick for me

[raidho36]

Next version of love will have special functionality for this.

[ken.athomos]

@xNick1 thanks for helping me on this. Really means a lot.

@raidho36 can you explain about the special functionality pls? (or leave a link?) thanks!

[xNick1]

@xNick1 thanks for helping me on this. Really means a lot.

@raidho36 can you explain about the special functionality pls? (or leave a link?) thanks!

Does it work now?
As far as you reset all the local vars it should start again as fresh.

[ken.athomos]

Yehp it works now. Like you said, I just had to make sure they aren't local vars anymore