Cute game, I'm enjoying the horse riding a dragon

Thanks everyone, I'm going to stick with a Lua table using the techniques suggested.

Thanks, very useful library, easier to use than others I found. I've added it to the list of Libraries in the Wiki: https://love2d.org/wiki/profile

I need to save game settings (e.g. video & audio settings) and game progress (e.g. which levels are completed, high-scores for each level). What method are others using? Some ideas I had: Using a Lua table structure to represent the settings, and serializing to a file (there seem to be many seri...

I've not used it personally (I'm using an older version), but since Love 0.10.0 there are 2 new callback functions for this functionality:

https://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.filedropped
https://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.directorydropped

I'm unsure of your goal; to make a video from PNG files try FFMPEG: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow

If you're looking to create a video of gameplay footage, use https://obsproject.com/ to capture your screen & audio while you play.

This answer on StackOverflow describes the basic approach: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2657184 (reposting for prosperity) 1. After applying movement, it checks for collisions. 2. It determines the tiles the player overlaps based on the player's bounding box. 3. It iterates through all of those tiles...

Here's my code for accessing the analog sticks. Inside love.load: -- Get any attached joysticks (aka gamepads) - assume final joystick found is player 1 for now local joysticks_found = love.joystick.getJoysticks() for i, joy in ipairs(joysticks_found) do player_1_joystick = joy end Inside love.updat...

You may be interested in this great library: https://github.com/kikito/tween.lua -- make some text fall from the top of the screen, bouncing on y=300, in 4 seconds local label = { x=200, y=0, text = "hello" } local labelTween = tween.new(4, label, {y=300}, 'outBounce') labelTween:update(dt...