Lovetoys
Lovetoys is a small bundle of helper classes and libraries consisting of 3 packages.
The most important one is the Entity Component System which is based on Richard Lords Introduction to ECS's.
If you don't have any idea what this entity component stuff is all about, click that link and give it a read! It's totally worth it!
A simple example for implementation:
require(lovetoys/engine)
function love.load()
-- Creation of a new world
love.physics.setMeter(64)
world = love.physics.newWorld(0, 9.81*80, true)
-- Enabling the collision functions
world:setCallbacks(beginContact, endContact)
love.window.setMode(1000, 600, {fullscreen=false, vsync=true, resizable=false})
-- A new instance of an engine is beeing created
engine = Engine()
-- A new instance of an eventmanager is beeing created
eventmanager = EventManager()
-- A new instance of a collisionmanager is beeing created
collisionmanager = CollisionManager()
-- The collisionmanager is beeing registered as a listener for the
-- "BeginContact" event.
eventmanager:addListener("BeginContact", {collisionmanager, collisionmanager.fireEvent})
-- Logic (update) systems are beeing added to the engine
engine:addSystem(ExampleSystem(), "logic", 1)
-- Drawing systems are beeing added to the engine
engine:addSystem(ExampleDrawSystem(), "draw", 1)
end
function love.update(dt)
-- Engine update function
engine:update(dt)
end
function love.draw()
-- Engine draw function
engine:draw()
end
--Collision function
function beginContact(a, b, coll)
-- Dynamic creation of a new instance of BeginContact and firing it to the Eventmanager
eventmanager:fireEvent(BeginContact(a, b, coll))
end
Grab it or give it a look on Github.
If you want to see a proper way of implementation or some nice examples for events and collisions, have a look at our Example-project or our Game.