My friends and I have decided to risk our professional and personal futures on pursuing our dream of creating games. And our first title will be a 2D shmup with some fun online aspects to set it apart, among other things. We are working on getting our studio website and project information online so...

Hi, I am trying to deal with an XML file in my love program. I use LuaXML an it works fine, though i have to add a lua.exe in the game directory, which i suppose makes it windows-only, or at least require the user to have Lua installed on other platforms. My problem is that when i try to build the ...

Hello all! I would like to know the opinions of experienced LÖVE developers with regard to licenses. When you release your games, what copyright license do you prefer to use and why? This has been a subject of debate on the game I am currently developing. Personally I am someone who prefers to use t...

It works without any errors or problems. I have not tried it, but I'm very sure trying to combine the Colors lib with an alpha value would fail: love.graphics.setColor(Colors.darkOrange, 128) -- I want to apply the color, and some alpha, too This is true; it does fail in this circumstance. Thank yo...

Thanks! Xgoff is correct, however, in that __index() is not even called in my specific example. But the trick could be useful in other situations where you want to unpack() something automatically or modify the behavior of normal table access.

Ah, I do love the power of metatables in Lua

Xgoff wrote:i'd be surprised if that would work because iirc __index always truncates to 1 return value

It works without any errors or problems.

also, setColor can take a table directly so you don't need to unpack anyway

Looks like a change added in version 7.0.0. Thanks for pointing this out.

I recently posted a thread asking for some help, and got some great responses. So I wanted to give back by sharing a trick I learned while working on my current game project which others may find useful. I found myself reading writing lots of calls like love.graphics.setColor(96, 85, 64) Unless you ...

Thank you everyone for the suggestions and advice.

Hello everyone! I would like to know what debugging tools you find useful when creating LÖVE games. These can be either specific to LÖVE or more general-purpose tools designed for Lua. I am doing the majority of my work on a Linux box, so I would prefer tools that work well in that environment; howe...