wouldn't it be better to announce the theme of the event closer the to the time? otherwise there's nothing stopping people from working on it now...

I'm actually working on a multiline editbox today, its very basic so far but I can share my code if you want.

I'm not sure how:
works, since signal is a table?

its "laserimg" not "lazerimg"

solved!

I've updated all my examples to the latest 0.8 build, hopefully they will be useful to someone.

A lot of the physics has changed in 0.8, and hasnt been updated on the wiki yet. It's due to the new version of box2d I believe. I havn't used it before, but i think that the way shapes are created has change, and the parameters for creating a new circle shape are different now. Best bet is either t...

That much I gathered and I was told that it's far from a smooth implementation. But I was hoping somebody would walk me through the process; function by function and explain what's doing what to what, in what order, why things are where they are and so on. Yes, folks, I'm really that thick. I've co...

If it helps, it took me a while to get my head around that code, it does look a little convoluted.
The State table doesn't really need to be there, it just adds the message and the options into a table for you.
statemanager just handles the key presses and returns the text.

i think it needs more neon colours, preferably ones that clash.

Looks good so far but I found a bit of a bug: And it seems to hang for a bit when it needs to make new segments?

If you want this to be 0.8 compatible, you can just remove the .lua extension in require: