Great Love practice?

[dementia_patient567]

I've been messing around with Love2d and it's awesome. I'm getting the hang of it slowly but surely. This(

1942.love

(133.74 KiB) Downloaded 187 times

) abomination is the closest I've managed to making a "game" so far with just a little bit of practice. I didn't bother finishing it because there were too many things wrong with it. I just couldn't get things to work. Anyways. I was wondering if you guys had some really good practices to get people's programming up to par. Whether that means games to clone or what, idk. I go through Lua and Love tutorials/libraries for a little bit pretty often and I learn a few new things each time. I just really learn better through trial and error and practice rather than staring at tutorials and libraries all day(which I'm willing to do, and I do just that, but it just isn't as effective for me.)

Basically I'm just asking what things I could do in practice that would help me achieve my goals in programming in Love and in general.

Thanks guys!

[Saegor]

hello

your .love don't work because you zipped the main folder instead of all the files.
look at the bottom for a working version

some example tips :

you can replace this

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explosion= {}
explosion[1] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex1.png")
explosion[2] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex2.png")
explosion[3] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex3.png")
explosion[4] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex4.png")
explosion[5] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex5.png")
explosion[6] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex6.png")
explosion[7] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex7.png")
explosion[8] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex8.png")
explosion[9] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex9.png")
explosion[10] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex10.png")
explosion[11] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex11.png")
explosion[12] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex12.png")
explosion[13] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex13.png")
explosion[14] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex14.png")
explosion[15] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex15.png")
explosion[16] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex16.png")
explosion[17] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex17.png")
explosion[18] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex18.png")
explosion[19] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex19.png")
explosion[20] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex20.png")
explosion[21] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex21.png")
explosion[22] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex22.png")
explosion[23] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex23.png")
explosion[24] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex24.png")
explosion[25] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex25.png")

by this

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explosion = {}
for n = 1, 25 do
explosion[n] = love.graphics.newImage("images/explode/ex" .. n ..".png")
end

another tip : try to make again the same game, cause you will make inconsciently more optimizations to your code with the newly gained XP in Lua

[zorfmorf]

Essential things you should keep in mind:

- Just like in Saegor's example above, if you find yourself writing the same code again and again/ copy&paste a lot of code, this usually means that you can simplify your approach greatly
- Try to keep a clean, consistent style of code. Indent properly, use meaningful names for variables, define your global variables at the start of your file, etc
- Write lots of comments! Write a short explanation for every more complex piece of code. For every method, explain what the parameters are, what the method does/returns, how it (should) handle special cases

[d_0o_d]

Yes, truly, the best thing you can do is practice your skills by coding stuff. Additionally you could read and modify code of some pro coders (ask for permission of course, but I don't think you get problems if you don't publish the modified code. It's just for the purpose of learning, right? ).
Maybe you think at some point that there must be a way to make things easier and more clean, often that is the case. But to find this way, you may have to ask google or some nice people