Collector - Educational Project [WIP]

[Belarusian]

Hi there!
(Sorry for my English. It's not my native language.)

I'm new to programing and love2d in particular) So this is my first attempt)
I want to get some advises and tips about coding and optimization. I will appreciate any help)

[Innocuous]

Looking good, and movement is very nice and smooth. Are you planning to introduce obstacles in the game?

[Dissident]

Nice. Despite being so simple, it's quite fun.

I had one problem. After collecting all 25 blocks twice, I was in the middle of the third time and it suddenly returned me to the menu. Is that supposed to happen?

[Belarusian]

Ummm...No it should not happen. Thanks for ur notice.

[Belarusian]

Looking good, and movement is very nice and smooth. Are you planning to introduce obstacles in the game?

No. This game is just a result of a learning curve) I'm ready to start an actuall game.

[baconhawka7x]

Wow, this game is a lot of fun! The art is good, and I like how the background color changes so often, it makes the game feel very fast paced.

I also really like the way the player bounces off of the walls instead of just stopping at them. it really fits with this type of game.

[Mermersk]

Simple and fun, should it always return me to the menu?

[Belarusian]

Simple and fun, should it always return me to the menu?

Yeah, it should)

[Zer0]

You asked about improving performance, and I got one thing.

SpriteBatches, I would use them in any fast paced game ( or anything that is just not a proof of concept really ) that uses a for loop to draw things.

with this few things being drawn every frame its no big deal, but if you would have to draw... say 60000 tiles every frame ( If you could fit that many on the screen ) it would really help with a SpriteBatch.

Other than that it was fun playing, and the mechanics worked as they should.

[Nananas]

Yo,

I looked at your code really quickly, two things that come to mind :

• . you use different images for the right and left facing marine... Maybe use scale (as in 1 and -1) for that.
  
  . That Object Oriented approach of yours seems a bit off, if that is what you where going for anyway. If not, then just ignore the next part... When making more complicated objects, i think your way of doing the update and draw code of multiple objects will hinder you later on. Instead, it can (probably) be easier to go for a more "correct" OOP way: something like

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  function Enemy.Load()
     local e = {}
     setmetatable(e, {__index = Enemy})   -- now the table "e" becomes an Enemy 
     --your enemy load stuff here
     e.doAFlip = true
     ...
     return e
  end
  
  function Enemy:Update(dt)
     self.x = self.x + self.vx * dt 
     -- etc.
  end
  
  -- and the same for Draw()

  And in Main

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  function love.load()
     enemies = {}
     for i=1,25 do
        enemy = Enemy.Load()
        table.insert(enemies, enemy)
     end
  end
  
  function love.update(dt)
     for k,e in pairs(enemies) do
        e:Update(dt)
     end
  end

  This way you can easily make other enemies that inherit basic functionality from enemy (basic OOP right?) . For example:

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  SuperEnemy = {}
  
  function SuperEnemy.Load()
     setmetatable(SuperEnemy,{__index = Enemy}) 
          -- this is how SuperEnemy knows he/she has to look up functions/variables in Enemy when he can't find them here
     local superenemy = Enemy.Load()
     setmetatable(superenemy,{__index = SuperEnemy})
          -- and finally linking the instance of enemy we just made with superenemy, giving him extra power or something  
     -- new superenemy stuff here
     return superenemy
  end
  
  function SuperEnemy:Update(dt)
     --extra superenemy stuff here
     Enemy.Update(self,dt)
  end

  Etc... This is a lua way of making basic OOP.
  Of course, if you don't know what I'm talking about, give a shout
  Well, another way of doing this is using a library that does all this for you... Though I have not yet used one myself.

This is what I do anyway...
Please correct me if i'm wrong in any way, I am just a layman too

PS: First post... I need an obey avatar now right?