Something I like to do is muck with the global environment a little bit before loading everything. For instance, this is a handy thing to do with table.unpack and table.pack -- Make unpack and table.unpack be the same function, regardless of version if table.unpack then unpack = table.unpack else ta...

I highly recommend using the Gamepad functions. For instance, the Joystick:isGamepadDown function to check the buttons, rather than the direct method. Because you said you're going to get an xbox360 controller in the future, this is the method that offers the most compatibility. Read Also, if you fe...

The general consensus that the love developers won't preserve backwards compatibility came late enough that way its packaged is incorrect. The windows installer is easy enough, I've already taken to installing all of the versions back to 0.8 separate of each other. The .deb or PPA is difficult and m...

A few years ago I ported HAMURABI.BAS to lua, it's not "concise" but I figure it's worth a mention: https://gist.github.com/inmatarian/5121902

timer = 4 function love.update(dt) time = time - dt if time <= 0 then -- do stuff time = 4 -- if you want to restart end end If you were trying to accurately time something to happen every 4 seconds, this clock would rapidly lose milliseconds. For instance, 60FPS is a dt value of rougly 0.016, whic...

Drawing sprites in correct Z order is the easiest part. Instead of keeping their X and Y as their highest and leftmost point, keep it as their lowest and centered point. Then your z-order is table.sort(sprites, function(a, b)return a.y < b.y end) The trick is drawing all of the sprites in this pseud...

I must say though, I am curious about what you mean by blocking calls. Can you give an example? A blocking call is when you make a function call and your current code doesn't resume execution until the other function returns with the intended output you wanted. This is in contrast to an asynchronou...

That library in particular appears to be both C macro heavy, so I doubt ffi will work for it, plus it looks like it relies on blocking calls, which wouldn't work with the the stock love.run function (which creates an event loop, that you shouldn't block). As for your original problem, the desire to ...

I volunteer to be the curmudgeon in this thread! I still highly recommend that everybody should release their game as a .love file, in addition to the other release formats they'll be putting out. That said, yeah I can see this being useful. I think flatpak is the more interesting system, but if sna...

This is where the notions of Classical Inheritance and Classical Object Oriented Programming start to fall apart within a dynamically (duck) typed language. Since you don't have a static compiler vetoing your code from type mismatches, here's my other recommendation. Duplicate code . Write each clas...