Lua OO Library - bmclass

[BlackBulletIV]

It's not necessarily a bad thing at all, it's just that this community is far more interested in reinventing the wheel than making any actual games with this game framework.

Yeah, you may be right there.

[slime]

Perhaps a few people are, but generalizing that statement to the whole community is not at all accurate.

[bmzz]

Oh look, another OO library.

Is that a bad thing? It's all good messing around with Lua.

It's not necessarily a bad thing at all, it's just that this community is far more interested in reinventing the wheel than making any actual games with this game framework.

I've already gotten my karma dinged for pointing out the obvious, so I'll drop the issue now.

I very agree with you. I should make a game with LOVE and bmclass, and I am doing it now.
I'm trying to do TD game with them. And I will keep going to finish it.

It is not yet complete, just for demo.

TD001.love

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My English is very poor. I hope you all can understand what i said.

[Kadoba]

I get "Error: main.lua:5: module 'component.tower' not found" when I try and run your demo. Its looking for a module in my Love directory rather than in the .love file.

[Robin]

I get "Error: main.lua:5: module 'component.tower' not found" when I try and run your demo. Its looking for a module in my Love directory rather than in the .love file.

No. It tries to load component/tower.lua, but it only has component/Tower.lua. Case sensitivity bites yet another Windows user!

[Kadoba]

Yep. You were right. I renamed all the files to lowercase and it works.

[bmzz]

Yep. You were right. I renamed all the files to lowercase and it works.

I'm sorry for that, I fixed at TD002.love.

now, we have enemys and we can build towers

TD002.love

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[Robin]

Nice, works well. The only thing that annoyed me was that you had to select the tower every time you wanted to place one. Since you'll be generally be placing a lot of those while playing, I suggest the following "fix": comment out line 34 in main.lua.

I also made the enemies a bit more varied by changing line 30 in component/Enemy.lua to:

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self.life = math.random() < .01 and 10000 or math.random() < .8 and 200 or math.random(200, 1000)

[bmzz]

I implement the money and "waves" at this version, 3 waves.
but it nothing happen when castle life = 0 or after 3 waves...=p

try it

TD003.love

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screenshot

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thanks for your testing.

[vrld]

Two comments on the library:

1. Please don't use loadstring to set global variables. It's slow as hell and might not work properly with environments. Use _G. See also Chapter 14.1 of the PIL.
2. The syntax to instanciate a class is really akward:

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   Dog("myDog", {name = "Snoopy"}) -- why is that better than myDog = Dog { name = "Snoopy" }?

   And it always creates a global object. Most of the time I don't want the object to be global, but be saved in a (local) table:

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   player.weapon = Shotgun {}