Hey guys! I am competing in the 7DRL challenge this week, and as always, decided to use LOVE! So far I have implemented Map selection, procedurally generated maps, player movement with FoV, and two playable characters. This is still a WIP, and I will update it as I go. Enjoy! (If you hit any bugs, l...

Another solution- Have the A.S.S. render the game screen into a framebuffer, then upload that imageData to the Achievement server. While it can still be manipulated, it would make it levels more difficult to fake receiving an achievement. Of course, then you would be uploading more than just a singl...

Thanks for your feedback! I really appreciate it. I would love to see your changes, if your willing to fix it I've been adding to this engine after every game jam/prototype, and never intended it to see the outside of my hard drive. However, I have been helping others with code recently, and realize...

Hey guys! I have been using the same basic engine framework in LOVE for the past few months for game jams, prototypes, and other projects. I don't know why I waited this long, but I thought it would only be proper if I released it into the wild, and allow all the wonderful LOVE experts here to merci...

The "right" way to do this would be to use an OpenGL fragment shader. Unfortunately, Love doesn't have support for them (yet?). Don't mess with framebuffers - the next best thing is to use images which have the bloom baked into them. Here, have some (consider them public domain). Thanks f...

This would be easy with shaders, but you can also try to simulate blurring by drawing to multiple scaled framebuffers which you then stretch back. I would love to see this. I attempted it before, but it ended up causing trails for every moving object, because I would use previous frames as the glow...

I made a super basic version using multiple draw layers. Honestly it didn't come out very well, but it doesn't seem to cause any latency. I guess I'll have to suck it up and accept that drawing a glow sprite will be necessary.

TechnoCat wrote:I feel some sort of gradient function in LOVE would be greatly appreciated.

Agreed.
ImageData is the only route I know of to create a gradient in code, and it doesn't seem very efficient.

Thank you guys for the responses! I was considering making the vector objects in code, with the glow being a particle like background image. I am curious about doing it in pure code just as an experiment, and I might try putting both together to see the results.

I am interested in trying to make a "glow" look in a game, but I have no idea how. Games that have done this include Geometry Wars, Defcon, Beat Hazard, etc. If possible, I would like to do it without any images, all using programmed shapes I tried doing multiple framebuffers with less and...