Blue Box!

[Puzzelism]

Hey fellow Lövers, Heh lovers.
Anyways im making this project with my friend, we named the game blue box. so far we have established the fundamentals for game development withing this .love file, but we need ideas, and gameplay concepts, and or ways to make the script better.

THE GAME IS NOT NEARLY FINISHED,

it has only been in development for 2 days now, and we really need ideas, i was thinking something on the lines of a glactica type game, except obviously instead of space ships it would be basic enemies or such.

IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS,

please post them below, I'll put you're name in a credits menu within the menu screen.

ALSO

if you would be so kindly as to give me hinters and or the actually script or rescources i would need to make your ideas work that would be great. Im kind of new to Löve so it would be awesome to get some help!

DOWNLOAD

[Syca]

I like the menu screen!
But I would make the bullets and player faster than they are. Specially the bullets, I think the player moves faster than them.
Also have the bullets come from the middle of the player instead of the top left corner
If you don't know how to do this you would change this line

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table.insert(bullet, {width = 5, height = 5, x = player.x, y = player.y, dir = dir})

to something like

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table.insert(bullet, {width = 5, height = 5, x = player.x+(player.width/2), y = player.y+(player.height/2), dir = dir})

But it's a great start!

[Puzzelism]

Thanks, yeah the title was a big part of a "first impression" i guess you could call it. about the bullets being in the middle of the player thats what i was trying to do with the player.x and player.y commands but now that i think about it dividing by two would work great!
About the speed of player and bullet, the bullet speed was just to be able to see the bullet for testing purposes only. The player speed on the other hand was just what i thought was a good speed!

Thanks for your feedback and enjoy your spot on the credits screen!

[scutheotaku]

While this is really early, this seems like a really good start! I love the menu screen! It definitely makes a good first impression, like you said

When running your LOVE file (it looks like you changed the file since Syca commented) I did get two errors:

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Could not open file rescources/title.png. Does not exist.
Could not open file rescources/pixel.ttf. Does not exist.

These are easy to fix though. The problem is that "title.png" is actually "Title.png" (with the first letter be capitalized), and "pixel.ttf" is "Pixel.ttf." Filenames in Windows are not case-senstive, so this would not cause a problem when you run it there (e.g. with your .bat), but filenames ARE case-sensitive when inside a ZIP archive. So, to fix it, I just changed the appropriate filenames, and it worked

Oh, and a quick tip: table.insert is slow, so you usually want to avoid using it while "action" is happening. You're currently using it to spawn bullets:

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table.insert(bullet, {width = 5, height = 5, x = player.x+(player.width/2), y = player.y+(player.height/2), dir = dir})

But this would be much faster:

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bullet[#bullet+1] = {width = 5, height = 5, x = player.x+(player.width/2), y = player.y+(player.height/2), dir = dir}

-- table.insert(myTable, foo) 
-- ...has the same result as... 
-- myTable[#myTable + 1] = foo
--also, just so you know, #myTable returns the number of entries in the table myTable.

Keep up the good work!

PS: If you give more info on what type of theme/feel you're going for, we might be able to come up with some cool ideas for you

[Puzzelism]

Thanks for your response!

the theme i was going for was sort of a blocky style shoot em up with different waves and stuff, but that could change in the near future. The title.png and stuff like that was changed in the updated download link, sorry about that should have test ran it first. Also, the reason i put the tables like that was because thats the way i was taught so that's the easier way for me!

Thanks for your suggestions, and also enjoy your comfy new position in the credits!