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by noway
Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:41 am
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

I've rewritten the game states using tables instead of if-else'es
I agree that this topic is important and should be covered.
In the end, I've included it into the chapter 2, right after the "straightforward gamestates" part.
by noway
Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to promote LOVE game?
Replies: 6
Views: 4555

Re: How to promote LOVE game?

I think promoting games is hard, and promoting gamedev tutorials or tools is even harder. In reality, Unity has become the defacto standard and 2D games using Lua is a tiny niche in comparison. Of course, good marketing requires time and skill, just as good sound effects, good graphics and code do....
by noway
Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:52 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

The basic idea is to store the "current state" as a reference to a table - then you call functions in that table. Yes, I have been thinking to use such an approach (after all, initially I've used hump.gamestates, which does something similar). But in the end, I've decided to postpone it t...
by noway
Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:39 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

I've finished rewriting the text for the chapter 2. It introduces simple gamestates, basic graphics and sound. Chapter 2: Common Features 1. Splitting Code into Several Files 2. Loading Levels from Files 3. Straightforward Gamestates 4. Basic Tiles 5. Different Brick Types 6. Basic Sound 7. Game Ove...
by noway
Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to promote LOVE game?
Replies: 6
Views: 4555

How to promote LOVE game?

Hey! I've been writing a tutorial series on making an Arkanoid-type game and I think it has come to a point where I can start to promote it a bit more actively. So far I've only posted announcements on this forum ( newer , older ) and on reddit/love2d ( newer , older ). According to Github traffic, ...
by noway
Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:34 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

The functions "collisions.check_rectangles_overlap", "collisions.ball_platform_collision", etc look practically identical. I feel that these can be consolidated into a single function. ... Check out my collision tutorial at: http://2dengine.com/doc/gs_collision.html One simplifi...
by noway
Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:34 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

Hey! How's the New Year going? The tutorial has been split in 3 chapters. The idea is following: Chapter 1 describes how to build a prototype for an Arkanoid-type game in the most straightforward way, without relying too much on any external libraries or advanced language features. Chapter 2 shows h...
by noway
Wed Dec 28, 2016 7:19 am
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

but the ball gets ridiculously fast very quickly. I can reproduce this if I try to hit the ball against the wall at a very low angle (i.e. almost aligned with the wall) which I always try because I want to get the ball up and behind the brick (quickest way to win arkanoid, I believe). So I go up to...
by noway
Sat Dec 24, 2016 12:45 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

I understand, all I'm saying is that setfenv/_ENV is not the 'typical' way that most Lua modules are written. The majority of the lib/modules you'll find in the wild are composed of a table with some functions. Take a look the HC code, for example. The Lua manual changes and seems to be more about ...
by noway
Thu Dec 22, 2016 5:39 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.
Replies: 68
Views: 29793

Re: Need Critique on Tutorial Series on Making Arkanoid-type Game.

Sorry for the topic hijack, noway! No problem. It's interesting to follow. Besides, it keeps the topic up :megagrin: These are not mistakes, but it just looks like you're coming from a language other than Lua: Indeed, I don't have much experience with Lua, and so I'm unaware of some of the common p...