Dude.. the language is irrelevant. I didn't know Lua before but I've made some fun stuff with Löve, and I intend to carry on. GUI stuff is, honestly, easy. It's just simple maths. Sure, *making* a good UI and UX is difficult, but It's a different skillset to programming it. But given what you want t...

You want to use a custom image format, because you don't want other people to be able to read the image files? It's not possible - no matter what you do, the code to load the images will be in Lua, so someone could read that and use it to load the files. You could make it more difficult (but not imp...

Can you show us some example images of the kind of shapes you're trying to create? The general problem can be solved in at least two ways (without shaders): - Keep doing what you're doing but do the triangulation yourself. I believe there is a modified ear-clipping algorithm that can handle self-int...

Divide the "stuff to draw" into two main lists - the world and the GUI. The world... well you'll just have to draw a smaller portion of it for smaller screens. For the GUI, position everything relative to the general borders of the screen - i.e. "20 pixels from the right border, 10 pi...

Stretching would probably look bad. What sort of game are you trying to make?

On Windows you can force a console to appear by editing the conf.lua file. Print is invaluable for debugging

That's because you're calling self.TestMap - this doesn't pass the object reference as the first parameter, so inside the method it takes the first parameter to TestMap and assigns that to self.

Change all the calls to self:TestMap(...) and it will work fine.

No need to worry about the graphics! Everyone uses placeholders to start - most of my concepts are just rectangles and circles. One suggestion I have is during your road building part, if you're crossing water you use boats - nice little concept :) I would also suggest bridges as a concept for cross...

I like it! Nice detail on the world generation - I love stuff like this. Have you read the red blob games article ? Seeing your comment "Use more kinds of trees ??" made me think of that one. A couple of observations! (of course) - Split up the M.createNewWorld function into smaller functi...

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