Hello everyone, I am somewhat familiar with Lua's co-routines but I cant really figure out how to use them inside of my games to improve performance. Where would it be logical to use co-routines inside the games? Obviously I don't want to slap on a co-routine on each entity to update it, but then ag...

So then this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I want to draw a circle an with an excessive radius to simulate a planet in which the bottom fourth of the screen shows the arc of the world. Theoretically I could use this in order to cut off the excessive amounts of the circle that w...

Because I am OCD about performance, how exactly does setScissor work? Obviously I can use this to stop drawing outside of the view of the camera, but how does it work internally? Does it just do a bunch of "if" statements to see if its in the bounds and draw if it is, or is this lower leve...

I would recommend adding more than one falling object occasionally instead of just making the ball re-spawn at the top. Currently an easy way to beat your game: 1)Move left or right a bit 2) Collect coins 3) wait for ball to reach bottom 4) repeat There needs to be more dynamic to the game, cuz righ...

Stress Testing my attack code.... That poor S.O.A.B. in the middle. http://puu.sh/37TWH.png Any ideas for improvement? I think it is an absolute waste to call lg.drawpoint() nearly 30k times when half of those won't even fit between each other. However I don't know of a way to test against that. -Sn...

If we could all agree on a centralized code source I wouldn't mind helping out...

Mentioning 'servers' is off topic. MySQL is a multi-connection database that lives on a server but that's not what the OP is asking for. The OP would like SQLite which is queryable local storage for a single-connection (i.e. the player). SQLite is appropriate for many applications particularly for ...

I'm not so sure that I should throw my 2 cents in here or not... This conversation is relevant because I was actually looking for something along the lines of SQL for LOVE. While I agree with the OP in being useful in some scenarios, I disagree about the inclusion of it in LOVE. SQL is really meant ...

Just as a side note: FPS are not a very useful measure for this kind of benchmark, since it distorts the actual time differences. For example, the difference of 330FPS to 250FPS is a whooping 80 FPS, but only 1s/250 - 1s/330 = 0.004s - 0.003030...s = 0.001s = 1ms. On the other hand, the difference ...

Been doing some more testing... Interesting fact: with my code for my game, my GPU usage never goes above 25% utilization (Even when I am below 20 FPS), but with your sample benchmark it will go all the way up to 95%. I looked at your code and didn't anything significantly different in the way I was...