I like thestarknight's drag and drop idea, that's very clean. But I'd probably just have the full game as the paywalled version. So there are two itch.io projects: A) game engine + shareware assets B) game engine + shareware + commercial assets. They're both self-sufficient. You can totally unpack t...

That's a cool IDE, it shows a stack / debug info, very useful. I code in Notepad++ like a peasant, it's just the text and that's it. Now parsed nodes work but the output is still nil, also i did a conscious decision of when there's no subtitle present at the time return an empty string witch ensures...

I know my O() function is garbage, but since generally even a 3hr file could get parsed in so little i took the performance hit. Since your code works, I don't consider it garbage. But it would be much faster using caching -- not in a noticeable way though, probably microseconds faster. Once i test...

If you haven't already seen this, there's a sticky thread about packing your game into a .love: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=451 I don't know if they're still updated, but there's some distribution tools in here, they're meant to automate the boring parts: https://github.com/love2d-comm...

Oh, and using LuaJIT's FFI you can load library binaries like .DLL on Windows and .SO on Android / Linux, as seen here: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=223319#p223319 You can build those binaries with C++ and a C extern interface, and use them in your Löve programs later. See this: https:/...

Not saying that you shouldn't learn C++, only you can know what's important for you.
But for you to consider learning C# instead. This would let you use Godot, Unity etc.

And C# is much closer to C++ than Lua is, so you will be closing the distance in any case.

Actually, f*** it, let's go all out.
There's no better way to test nearest-neighbor filtering than some parallax scrolling with a very subtle decay.

@ddabrahim can you test this? preview.gif The "sprite.png" image is this: sprite.png The main.lua code is this: local sprite local spriteX = 170 local pixelCanvas function love.load() love.window.setMode(640, 400) -- Twice the pixel art canvas size. love.graphics.setDefaultFilter('nearest'...

I suggest creating a new folder / project just to stress-test these things out in isolation.
If you can get them to work, then you know the problem is somewhere else in your code

Ninja'ed by Vilonis xD (I didn't see your earlier post)