LÖVE

Note: For friends I may have linked here who need help installing the game you must first download the Love platform installer from http://www.love2d.org. After it's installed download and open the latest version of the game from below. Welcome to playing with Love!

• Try using the laser on the cat fliers
• Missiles work best on the urples, try to time your attacks against their firing rate!
• Final boss will reflect projectiles with his shield!

• Arrow Keys - Movement
• Spacebar - Fire
• 'r' - Toggles projectile type
• 's' - Toggle audio (new)

• Current - v0.9 - http://www.josephbleau.com/SpaceScout_v0-9.love
  • Turning audio on and off now fixed (press 's' to toggle)
  • First level final boss completed.
  • New boss minion: "Obey"
• All old versions links and changelog found here: http://www.josephbleau.com/ss_changelog.txt

• At least 15 types of enemies.
• At least 6 levels.
• One "super enemy" at the end of each level.
• Interface for swapping projectile player is using.
• Menu system and game over screen

• Enemies dropping Bones and their projectiles
• Pressing 'r' will toggle projectiles with a small UI at the bottom
• At least 10 levels and 20 different monsters
• A soundtrack (going to compose it myself, or at least try, hehe)
• A game menu that lets you choose which level you want to play after having unlocked it
• A game-over screen & continues

TechnoCat wrote:Okay, so I notice you are using a lot of table indexing with numbers. And then referencing the next one using table#+1 and so on.
And then to compensate for the big loops that might come out of this, I saw you doing a cleanup function that checks for cases when everything is not visible.

You might want to look into using functions like "table.insert()" and "table.remove()" and then a "for i,v ipairs(table) do" for tables and set references that are off screen to nill. Lua has a garbage collector it calls itself.

spirulence wrote:If you're looking for some help with the soundtrack, I'd be happy to oblige. I'm not a musician by trade, but I do write my own brand of electronic music as a hobby.

Here's some examples:
http://www.archive.org/download/AMidsum ... capade.mp3
http://www.archive.org/download/NewSqua ... Square.mp3

TechnoCat wrote:Oops, I meant "for i,v in ipairs(table) do", but hopefully you are reading about that in a reference already.

function performCleanup()
		-- Remove dead enemies, but only if
		-- their fade timer (controls their death animation) 
		-- has expired.
		for i,v in ipairs(enemies) do
			if( (v["alive"] == false) and
				(love.timer.getTime() - v["fade_timer"] > 3)
			  ) then
				table.remove(enemies,i)
			end
		end

		-- Remove off-screen projectiles from
		-- our projectile table.
		for i, v in ipairs(projectiles) do
			if( not(v[1] > -70)    and 
			    not(v[1] < 1000) ) then
				table.remove(projecties,i)
			end
		end
end