I'm kind of new too. Still getting used to the vibe.

Speed and ease of reading are not opposed. They go together more often than they work against each other. Altough it is possible that lua is slowing down your program, the chances are that there is some bottleneck on it. Trouble is, it is difficult to find bottlenecks if the code isn't easy to read...

My recommendation is exactly that of the yellow box on the wiki: don't do it.

Boxes and bullets are easy.
*is lazy and doesn't write bullets*

Your love doesn't support opening the console? That is the first time I hear about that function. I don't think it is standard. If you are trying to open up a console, the correct way is using the config file . btw, what version of love DO you have? I have love 0.6.2 in Ubuntu. I did a dump of love...

Yeah, more newbie whining... So writing files in Lua isn't so bad, it's kind of like Java or other languages with overloaded methods for file write, but reading... Are there examples of reading in blocks of data from a file? My google-fu seems to turn up lots of... interesting.. examples of how com...

kikito wrote:I got this error:

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main.lua:1: attempt to call field '_openConsole' (a nil value)

btw, what version of love DO you have?

If you've played my most recent project, you know that having 1000+ food is murderous to your processor.

nevon wrote:

zac352 wrote:What's AnAl?

As the link would explain, it stands for Animations and Löve. It's a lib for animating sprites.

Oh.

nevon wrote:Same here. Commenting out that first line solves it though. I gotta say, this game is very strangely written.

Thank you.

kikito wrote:I got this error:

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main.lua:1: attempt to call field '_openConsole' (a nil value)

Your love doesn't support opening the console?