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Khazzy
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My names Khaz, I'm trying to finally make my dream a reality. I figured I would start with A programming language my friend told me was relatively easy to learn (Lua) and I figured I would say to the community c:
I'm intent on creating my game to be perfect no matter what it takes or how long c: I'd like to get to know people here and maybe get some help or start a collab project!
But that'll be in time! For now I leave you all with this, its a sketch for my game.
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I am a cardboard box.
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I've never conversed with a cardboard box before.

Welcome to LÖVE and lua. For a quick a speedy learning curve (which is something lua is great for!) I suggest checking out Getting Started, http://www.lua-users.org/wiki/TutorialDirectory and of course the http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html. You might want to read through the tutorials before reading the manual. This might seem a little odd but lua-users is written in a more user-friendly style.

A great way to get started is to grab yourself a lua terminal and pass some basic commands to it. By playing with variables and print() you can see the output of your experiments quickly and easily. Always have a terminal open when reading tutorials so you can play with the examples.

Most of all, make sure you have fun!
Do you recognise when the world won't stop for you? Or when the days don't care what you've got to do? When the weight's too tough to lift up, what do you? Don't let them choose for you, that's on you.
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Hello :D! What really helps you too is looking at other peoples code, just to get a feel for everything, and to learn how progrmamming actually looks like ;)!
And by 'looking' I mean : 'reading and trying to understand it' :P
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Welcome!
And make sure not to miss PiL!
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Good luck, I definitely hope that you make your game open source http://github.com <<< HERE!!!! so that other people can contribute to making the game better. I assure you that once its on that site, you'll get plenty of pull requests from me.

Welcome :)
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