Balloon Adventure

[BoonyBuny]

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I'm glad to announce my first semi-serious game, still very silly.

It's a silly quick project I made in about a week, the goal was to learn different ways to make gameplay, backgrounds and of course the dreaded filesystem (I used the old love.filesystem.exists() tho)

here's all the links:

Source Code Balloon Adventure.zip

Source code

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Balloon Adventure.zip

compiled .exe file

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[Andlac028]

I used the old love.filesystem.exists() tho

It seems like it will be re-added in Love 12.0, as it is faster then getInfo if you only want to know, if it exists. See this commit

[ReFreezed]

Cute. I like the speedy bird.

[BoonyBuny]

I used the old love.filesystem.exists() tho

It seems like it will be re-added in Love 12.0, as it is faster then getInfo if you only want to know, if it exists. See this commit

neat! I just used it in my love.load() that just checks if data.txt exists, if not, write 0 to all scores

just to prevent crashes at launch

[BoonyBuny]

Cute. I like the speedy bird.

Ey thanks! don't hesitate to send feedbacks :p

[pgimeno]

I have a few problems. I couldn't even start. My screen is 1280x1024; it starts in fullscreen with a wider resolution, and part of the text goes off the screen. There's also no obvious key to exit: ESC, Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+C didn't do anything.

Fortunately I've configured my window manager to add a key to close the window, but many Linux users won't have that, and might be forced to restart the machine.

So I'd suggest to:

• make fullscreen an option, disabled by default;
• manage resolutions;
• allow ESC to close the intro screen

The deprecation warning can be disabled with love.setDeprecationOutput, by the way.

[BoonyBuny]

I have a few problems. I couldn't even start. My screen is 1280x1024; it starts in fullscreen with a wider resolution, and part of the text goes off the screen. There's also no obvious key to exit: ESC, Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+C didn't do anything.

Fortunately I've configured my window manager to add a key to close the window, but many Linux users won't have that, and might be forced to restart the machine.

So I'd suggest to:

• make fullscreen an option, disabled by default;
• manage resolutions;
• allow ESC to close the intro screen

The deprecation warning can be disabled with love.setDeprecationOutput, by the way.

fullscreen is on by default but F11 disables it ! sry, i dont know how to make auto-managing screen resolutions yet, it's still a test game to learn

default resolution is 1920x1080

and thanks for that love.setDeprecationOutput code!

[GVovkiv]

make auto-managing screen resolutions

Someone say SCREEN RESOLUTION?
check my signature, might help with that, hah.

[BoonyBuny]

make auto-managing screen resolutions

Someone say SCREEN RESOLUTION?
check my signature, might help with that, hah.

I will check them out, noted

[pgimeno]

Well, a quick and dirty solution that worked for me was to add this at the beginning of love.draw():

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  local scale = math.min(love.graphics.getWidth()/1920, love.graphics.getHeight()/1080)
  love.graphics.scale(scale)

Also, making the window resizeable should be no problem.

I've taken a quick look into the code because the first time I press F11 it does nothing. That's because of a problem with the scope of a variable. You declare fullscreen as local inside love.load(), and then use it in love.keypressed, but since it's local to love.load, what love.keypressed actually accesses is the global variable fullscreen, which defaults to nil which is equivalent to false when negated. The fix is to move it from love.load to the top of the file:

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local fullscreen, fstype = true, "desktop"

function love.load()
    love.window.setFullscreen(fullscreen, fstype)
    ...

At least I could play. It's quite difficult, I could only collect 1 coin