Looking for help on a lot of things, need some awesome people to assist.-The Dream Of Coding and Knowing Nothing.
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:32 am
Hey everyone, Long title for a thread, I'm sure it will upset some and I am sorry for that in advance.
So as the title suggest I have no knowledge of programing for anything. Yes I know I should before doing so but I am sure I am not the only one who never had the 60k for school or with a minimum wage job had enough for an engine that was not Love 2d. "Get to the point" just clearing up things so people don't reply in unhelpful ways.
So I chose love, Seems like a great programming language once I read more into it. I have read the wiki's and watched tut's on youtube but there is not much out there for love2d and what is they expect you to know programming in another language, and that one requires the same of another and so on.
Where am I at? Well like most people I looked up with my problem I read a book twice fold called "Love for lua programming" Sadly it seems to be the only Book on the subject I could find. It is also far behind the current love version. As my problem had to do with the out dated drawq and flip: functions. Sadly not a single person who commented on these subjects gave any helpful information, they simply tell the people it is out dated without telling them the new way of writing the same thing in the updated form or even leaving links to do so. The internet am I right?
Now I would like to explain I am very serious about game creation, my whole like I have been creating the concepts and drawing designs and have boxes of it. I was just missing the core part of doing it. Programming. So while reading this book I did not copy past, I actually made my own sprites, I made sure the batch was different in every way and animated it all myself, changed variables and values to fit the eventual feel I wanted my game to be in. forcing me to no be able to copy and paste from the book or just do what they did.
Of course I found out most of it did not work, So I looked up each line of all the codes and searched for alternatives for each, of course being difficult because besides what I had to kinda figure out myself most still feels like learning another language with no help and most of the book goes into no detail about what anything is, means, does so on.
So what do I need help with? Well I could paste my altered codes, but after much reading from people who read the same book, regardless of altering things and changing them it means nothing since most people have said its bad practice. So I am looking for 1 person, 1 awesome person who has as much of a passion for this as I do creating to help me, even better if its more then 1 person. I would even be willing to make a discord. I am constantly working on learning lua for Love2d, when I don't understand something I look up the info, when I still don't I work on sprites and music for it. So if there is anyone out there who wants to be a good teacher, something that is missing in most schools, sites and books. to walk a total beginner through the basics or even work along side me on this I would deeply appreciate it. I understand this is my dream and not yours. but I can't stress enough how much I want to learn this or see one of my many creations come to life for people to enjoy. So please get into contact with me here or anywhere. And if this is the wrong thread I am sorry, I don't use forums often and keep to myself most times even on the net but I needed to come out of that shell for this as well. haha. Anyway thank you if you have took your time to read this and I look foreword to seeing the responses.
So as the title suggest I have no knowledge of programing for anything. Yes I know I should before doing so but I am sure I am not the only one who never had the 60k for school or with a minimum wage job had enough for an engine that was not Love 2d. "Get to the point" just clearing up things so people don't reply in unhelpful ways.
So I chose love, Seems like a great programming language once I read more into it. I have read the wiki's and watched tut's on youtube but there is not much out there for love2d and what is they expect you to know programming in another language, and that one requires the same of another and so on.
Where am I at? Well like most people I looked up with my problem I read a book twice fold called "Love for lua programming" Sadly it seems to be the only Book on the subject I could find. It is also far behind the current love version. As my problem had to do with the out dated drawq and flip: functions. Sadly not a single person who commented on these subjects gave any helpful information, they simply tell the people it is out dated without telling them the new way of writing the same thing in the updated form or even leaving links to do so. The internet am I right?
Now I would like to explain I am very serious about game creation, my whole like I have been creating the concepts and drawing designs and have boxes of it. I was just missing the core part of doing it. Programming. So while reading this book I did not copy past, I actually made my own sprites, I made sure the batch was different in every way and animated it all myself, changed variables and values to fit the eventual feel I wanted my game to be in. forcing me to no be able to copy and paste from the book or just do what they did.
Of course I found out most of it did not work, So I looked up each line of all the codes and searched for alternatives for each, of course being difficult because besides what I had to kinda figure out myself most still feels like learning another language with no help and most of the book goes into no detail about what anything is, means, does so on.
So what do I need help with? Well I could paste my altered codes, but after much reading from people who read the same book, regardless of altering things and changing them it means nothing since most people have said its bad practice. So I am looking for 1 person, 1 awesome person who has as much of a passion for this as I do creating to help me, even better if its more then 1 person. I would even be willing to make a discord. I am constantly working on learning lua for Love2d, when I don't understand something I look up the info, when I still don't I work on sprites and music for it. So if there is anyone out there who wants to be a good teacher, something that is missing in most schools, sites and books. to walk a total beginner through the basics or even work along side me on this I would deeply appreciate it. I understand this is my dream and not yours. but I can't stress enough how much I want to learn this or see one of my many creations come to life for people to enjoy. So please get into contact with me here or anywhere. And if this is the wrong thread I am sorry, I don't use forums often and keep to myself most times even on the net but I needed to come out of that shell for this as well. haha. Anyway thank you if you have took your time to read this and I look foreword to seeing the responses.