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BetterSnake is my spin on the game snake. I started with Lua and Love2D today, and looked up a snake tutorial. From there I just modified the game and gave it more features. You can look at the code for this if you want, it's not very advanced. The reason I am posting here is to ask: Are there any really informative tutorials on Love2D? I have previously coded in Java and I want to learn Lua as it seems to be a lot easier and just as fun.

https://github.com/AngusWP/bettersnake

Another thing I want to ask - when I tried to run main.lua inside a package, it wouldn't run. I am used to packages through Java but what is the normal way to structure Lua code, and if there is no package system is there a better way to keep everything organized and not just in one huge class?

Another thing, I wanted to add a game icon but I can't convert my image into image data, does anyone know how to make this work?
Thanks for reading my post! If you would recommend any game projects that don't take too much work but will teach me more about Lua, just let me know. I want to learn!

I can't speak from experience, but people have recommended checking out sheepolution for love2d specific tutorials: http://sheepolution.com/learn/book/0

With regards to the code you've written, works perfectly fine for me. Is your snake_icon.png image inside of your images folder?

You should load in the image file as an ImageData instead, since you cannot convert Images to ImageData anymore; that way you can pass the ImageData to setIcon. (Use love.image.newImageData)

Also, define packages, since i fail to understand what you mean by keeping everything organized in one "class"; don't use classes? or look at kikito's library tutorial, where he details how to isolate code into separate files: http://kiki.to/blog/2014/03/30/a-guide- ... a-modules/

Sir_Silver wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:17 am With regards to the code you've written, works perfectly fine for me. Is your snake_icon.png image inside of your images folder?

I changed it to image data, and the code runs fine but the actual window does not show it. I googled it and it turns out sometimes there is an issue where other people can see it but the person who wrote it can't? This could be a bug with Zero Brain Studios or something.

zorg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:34 am Also, define packages, since i fail to understand what you mean by keeping everything organized in one "class"; don't use classes? or look at kikito's library tutorial, where he details how to isolate code into separate files: http://kiki.to/blog/2014/03/30/a-guide- ... a-modules/

Yeah classes are a Java thing sorry, I meant I don't want to have everything in one .lua file and want to be able to keep it organized in different .lua files.