I don't think there's a way to save or load a Lua state, but I'm not sure you have to go that far. If you can represent the state of the game using variables (i.e. you don't need to remember the state of the stack or the program counter) then you can just save and load the content of the variables. ...

Probably the only thing you really get from the config file that you can't do in load() is not opening a window if you don't need one. You could add an optional "config()" function to the script and make sure it runs before you open a window. This would make the code lighter (no need to ma...

Don't know what exactly it's choking on, but in line 55 you have a problem: 53 prop_weapon_shotgun = { 54 s_Class = "prop_weapon_shotgun", 55 t_Tracers = table: 01D9C128, 56 s_Base = "prop_weapon", 57 s_AmmoClass = "Shotgun", I get this error message: wrath.txt:55: malf...

Eager... yes, you can say that again

Hi, I'm not sure I fit the perfect profile. I have a lot of programming experience (have been professionally programming for about 12 years, but started when I was about 10...) I've also programmed professionally in Lua. However, I've never programmed a "real game" (I don't call tetris a r...

I'm sure the word 'zombies' was mentioned...

Here's some code that does what I think you want: function load() background = love.graphics.newImage("background.jpg") flashlight = love.graphics.newImage("flashlight.png") fw = flashlight:getWidth() fh = flashlight:getHeight() end function draw() local x, y = love.mouse.getPosi...

Last time it hit me was when I was writing a tetris clone. While debugging, I kept getting the same first block and it really annoyed me. It's true that if you run the program only occasionally (and not too many times in a row) then it doesn't matter - to be honest I've only played it once or twice ...

This code seems to work: function load() angle = 67 x = 100 y = 500 speed = 20 end function update(dt) x = x + math.cos(math.rad(angle)) * dt * speed y = y - math.sin(math.rad(angle)) * dt * speed end function draw() love.graphics.rectangle(love.draw_fill, x, y, 10, 10) end If you use atan2(dy,dx) t...

I think the explanation is that a category can be a number between 0 and 15 (i.e. 16 categories). So when you want to specify a list of categories, you can either list them: shape:setCategory(1,3,10) Or you can use a single number to represent this list. To do that, you calculate the sum of 2^catego...