Connection Paint

[Mkalo]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Click to able or disable connections.

If you like change the configurations of the game and put it full screen I like that...

[MarekkPie]

I like it. I attempted to make the check 2 squares instead of 1 and almost got it, but then some stupid bugs got in the way and I realized I should be debugging my game instead.

[Mkalo]

Hmm there is, i think.

[MarekkPie]

I was thinking more along the lines of something you could change via a menu. Set the size of the spatial hash (I think that's the name for what you are doing, but maybe not), then the game will build the "dirs".

Something like:

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for i = -size, size do
  for j = -size, size do
    table.insert(dirs, {i,j})
  end
end

[Nixola]

I've got an Intel graphic card and I can't see 1-pixel-wide horizontal or vertical lines...

[Nixola]

P.S: try changing this

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local GAME_GRID = {

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},

}

with this:

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local GAME_GRID = {}
for y = 1, math.ceil(love.graphics.getHeight() / 20) do
	GAME_GRID[y] = {}
	for x = 1, math.ceil(love.graphics.getWidth() / 20) do
		GAME_GRID[y][x] = 0
	end
end

I'm playing on my 1024x600 netbook monitor now

[ivan]

Pretty cool. I have a prototype that's quite similar to your app.
Just a small suggestion:

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function checkAround(px, py)
    local dirs = {
    [1] = {0, -1},
    [2] = {1, -1},
...

It's usually better to allocate tables that don't change only once.
Lua is an interpreted language so it doesn't know that 'dirs' is constant so it will recreate the table each time you call checkAround.
Secondly, you might want to look into neightbor valuing to represent the grid:
http://www.saltgames.com/2010/a-bitwise ... -tilemaps/
In short, instead of 0 and 1, each tile could have a value between 0-256 (2^8) to represent which adjacent nodes it's connected to.