Black screen when I run the game.

[BoopDeePoop]

I'm having a strange problem that and I can't find anything wrong with my code. The problem is that when I tried to move my code for a "debug menu" at the top of the screen to a different file, the box would show but the text wouldn't. I then tried to move everything back to my main.lua where it was originally was and now I just get a black screen on startup. There is a high possibility that I missed something when switching it back over but I can't find what. Please help! My .love is attached at the bottom.

[Codex]

Your love.draw() should look like this:

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function love.draw()
	local x = love.mouse.getX()
	local y = love.mouse.getY()
	love.graphics.setColor(0, 0, 0, 255)
	love.graphics.line(x, 0, x,love.graphics.getHeight())
	love.graphics.line(0, y,love.graphics.getWidth(),y)
	if gamestate == "menu" then
		love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255,255)
	love.graphics.draw(menubackground,0,0)
	button_draw()
	elseif gamestate == "playing" then
		love.graphics.setColor(0, 0, 0, 255)
	love.graphics.rectangle("fill", 0, 0, 800, 100)
		love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255, 255)
		love.graphics.setFont(CentGoth)
	love.graphics.print("Debug Menu", 5, 3)
		love.graphics.setFont(MainFont)
	love.graphics.print("Press ESC to exit the game.", 5, 59)
	love.graphics.print("Press H to hide the cursor.", 5, 73)
	love.graphics.print("FPS: " .. love.timer.getFPS(), 5, 17)
	love.graphics.print("Delta Time: " .. love.timer.getDelta(), 5, 31)
	love.graphics.print("You've played for: " ..math.floor(time_passed).. " seconds.", 5, 45)
		love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255, 255)
	love.graphics.draw(playingbackground, 0, 0)
	player_draw()
	end
end

I think you should grasp how to use if, elseif, else loops. Take a look here because you might find it useful.

[BoopDeePoop]

Now it runs but when I click start it gives me an error that says I need to contact myself.

[Codex]

You might have to jump into your love.mousepressed function and make it so that when you click on an option in the menu that it switches the gamestate.

ie. You click on new game, then gamestate == "playing"

Hope that helps!

[BoopDeePoop]

You might have to jump into your love.mousepressed function and make it so that when you click on an option in the menu that it switches the gamestate.

ie. You click on new game, then gamestate == "playing"

Hope that helps!

I've already done that in menu.lua. In the function button_click it says:

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if v.id == "start" then gamestate = "playing"

[Gravy]

In your love.load, you only create time_passed if gamestate is "playing". Since the game starts in menu mode, and love.load only gets run once, it is never created. Once i took the if .. then .. end from around time_passed = 0, I was able to enter the game. The "end" was also in the wrong spot in love.load.

You should try to become unreasonably scrupulous about your indentations. It'll make your programming life much easier

[Robin]

Now it runs but when I click start it gives me an error that says I need to contact myself.

While developing, you need to change this line in conf.lua to

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    t.release = false

That will give you more helpful error screens. (It's the default, so you can just leave out that line as well.)

[BoopDeePoop]

Now it runs but when I click start it gives me an error that says I need to contact myself.

While developing, you need to change this line in conf.lua to

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    t.release = false

That will give you more helpful error screens. (It's the default, so you can just leave out that line as well.)

Thanks, I didn't really know what changing that to true did.

I got the game to work now and it's running fine.