Restart a game

[uberSamji]

Hi there.

I am new to LÖVE and have been working on a rudimentary Pong implementation.

First I load the game elements (ball, paddles, scoreboard, etc.)

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function love.load()
	ball = Ball.create(SCREEN_WIDTH / 2 , 250, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT)
	paddle1 = Paddle.create(1, 15, SCREEN_HEIGHT, 'w', 's')
	paddle2 = Paddle.create(2, (SCREEN_WIDTH - 35), SCREEN_HEIGHT, 'up', 'down')
	scoreboard = Scoreboard.create(((SCREEN_WIDTH / 2) - 20), 25)
	announcer = Announcer.create(((SCREEN_WIDTH / 2) - 45), 130)
	screentip = Screentip.create(((SCREEN_WIDTH / 2) - 30), 200)
end

By default, I have a boolean GAME_ACTIVE which is set to true.
While true, the love.draw and love.update in my main.lua draw and update the game elements as applicable.

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function love.draw()
    if GAME_ACTIVE then
     paddle1:draw()
	  paddle2:draw()
	  ball:draw()
	  scoreboard:draw(SCORE_PLAYER_1, SCORE_PLAYER_2)
   end
end

In my love.keypressed(key) function, I have code to pause/unpause game play when GAME_ACTIVE is true and
code to quit or restart the game when GAME_ACTIVE is false.

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function love.keypressed(key)
	if GAME_ACTIVE and key == 'p' then
		if STATE == 'play' then
			STATE = 'pause'
		else
			STATE = 'play'
		end
	elseif GAME_ACTIVE == false and key == 'n' then
		love.event.quit()
	elseif GAME_ACTIVE == false and key == 'y' then
		GAME_ACTIVE = true
		STATE = 'play'
		--! TODO
	end
end

Quit works okay with love.event.quit(), but resetting the GAME_ACTIVE to true, does not restart the game. What can I do to reset the game? Restart the engine itself or can I dispose of the game element objects and reinitialize them?

Thanks in advance.

- Sam

[Plu]

Quickest way to reload the game would be to call love.load() again, since that's what you use to set the game's initial state

[uberSamji]

Thanks! The following did the trick.

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	elseif GAME_ACTIVE == false and key == 'y' then
		GAME_ACTIVE = true
		STATE = 'play'
		SCORE_PLAYER_1 = 0
		SCORE_PLAYER_2 = 0
		love.load()
	end