@Rickton Congratulations! To see you stick with it and work consistently at it has been super inspiring!

You cannot access [3][1][1][1] if [3][1][1] doesn't exist yet - I had this problem a lot when I was starting out with tables. This might mean that you are not building/nesting your tables correctly, and you end up missing some layers. You can add something like assert( [3], "missing layer 1&quo...

Random stuff I've pulled off Twitter and added to Bugzilla: ·When StackOverflow goes down, how do they figure out what's going wrong? ·Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. ·I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out...

A suggestion which has worked for me: 97% of my game is in pure lua, it never calls the Love API. Everything goes through a 'framework'-module that handles the actual API calls to things like reading/writing data, controller input, drawing stuff, etc. So when eg. love.graphics.drawq was removed I on...

You can specify multiple 'read files from this location'-paths by extending the package.path string with more read-locations. So if I wanted to add a path which contains a bunch of shared libraries I've written for string parsing and math, I could do something like: package.path = package.path .. &q...

I wrote a system for my tilebased rpg which does the following: First get a list of all the visible light sources in the scene. I have a max light distance somewhere, and if the light sources are further away than that from what is visible to the player, I can just ignore them. Then loop through eve...

Check out Axis Aligned Bounding Box collisions (eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghqD3e37R7E ) - your player and NPCs will probably be square-ish, and this is one of the simplest and cheapest collision checks you can run in terms of processing power.

You can get the coordinates of where they actually intersect without having to calculate slopes by using cross product ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product ). Throw this function two lines in the form L1 = { X1 = 0, Y1 = 0, X2 = 1, Y2 = 1 } etc. GetIntersection = function( L1, L2 ) local d ...

$5k = 4 people @ $25/hour for about a week. I can guarantee you that you will not make an MMO, with 1 coder, in a week. When you take other peoples money through a crowdfunding campaign you are making them a promise that they will get something in return. You will either not be profitable and burn o...

We had a similar issue in this forum post, where there was a bug in how the Voronoi cells would be determined for certain seeds and sizes: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=81092&p=191346#p190177 If i remember correctly, the data is; points > make up lines > make up polys so line...