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The tutorial in question: https://love2d.org/wiki/Tutorial:Baseline_2D_Platformer

I've been trying to run the whole code for the tutorial in question for a few hours now, tweaking the code back and forth to see which results I get, and it's simply not been compiling, instead presenting me with the error of:

"Syntax error: main.lua:8: '=' expected near 'platform'

I don't quite understand why this is happening and any help is appreciated.

Hi and welcome to the forums!

Do post your own code (preferrably between [ code ] [ /code ] tags) and then we can help you further, since from the wiki's first code block, i don't see anything that would give back that specific error message.

I'm guessing that you were going to assign a value to a variable like platform.x = 0 and it looks like you forgot the "=" sign