Neatness tips...

[Le_juiceBOX]

Hey, I was wondering if you guys can give me some tips on how to write cleaner code and some personal things you do to make things easier for you.

Thanks.

[bonez001]

Learn to use modules and local variables for bigger project. I'm still a beginner but that is what I observe.

[Zireael]

Use modules and classes and inheritance. And local variables.

A simple library that implements 1,2 and 3 is https://github.com/kikito/middleclass

[s-ol]

separate concerns properly, indent properly, try to hit the balance between explicit/readable and performant/short.

[kikito]

Invest time thinking about the names you give to things.

5 minutes spent finding a meaningful name for a variable can save tens of hours of head-scratching in the future.

The best resource I know for finding good names for variables is chapter 2 of the Clean Code book. You can read it for free on Google Books (the whole book is a good read, but that chapter in particular is great).

[Zireael]

Invest time thinking about the names you give to things.

5 minutes spent finding a meaningful name for a variable can save tens of hours of head-scratching in the future.

The best resource I know for finding good names for variables is chapter 2 of the Clean Code book. You can read it for free on Google Books (the whole book is a good read, but that chapter in particular is great).

Oh yeah, this. Will give the book a read, but I have a notes file devoted to hierachy only, i.e. class/module Spawn places stuff in my game world, therefore it needs to require Actor, Object and Player. If I want to place something, the Area class needs to call Spawn. That sort of thing. Conceptualizing it before coding really helps!