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by fridays18
Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: Potions - Adventure Crafting Game
Replies: 9
Views: 13555

Re: Potions - Adventure Crafting Game

Game looks amazing!
by fridays18
Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:28 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Bullet Hell Patterns
Replies: 5
Views: 2180

Bullet Hell Patterns

Hello! Im going to start work on a bullet hell game and im curious if anyone has any good resources / libs for patterns and such, any help is appreciated :)
by fridays18
Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:12 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Making a sprite face the mouse
Replies: 4
Views: 1140

Re: Making a sprite face the mouse

Clearly signaling which way the sprite is facing is more of a visual design dilemma, than anything löve specific. The usual go-to for perfectly top-down games (like Hotline Miami) tends to be that the character's arms clearly point one way or the other, particularly if they're holding a weapon of s...
by fridays18
Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:20 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Making a sprite face the mouse
Replies: 4
Views: 1140

Re: Making a sprite face the mouse

Basically you need to get the angle between the position of the image and the mouse, you can do it with the function `math.atan2(dy,dx)` where dx and dy are the difference between the position of the mouse and image, here is an example: local lg = love.graphics local GW, GH = lg.getDimensions() loc...
by fridays18
Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Making a sprite face the mouse
Replies: 4
Views: 1140

Making a sprite face the mouse

I want to make one sprite (this is for a top down game) that has a clear front and back, I then want the front of the sprite to always be facing the mouse pointer. Basically the sprite rotating to the mouse, does anyone know how I would go about this?
by fridays18
Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:20 pm
Forum: Games and Creations
Topic: It Takes Two
Replies: 0
Views: 7541

It Takes Two

You found an old game with your friend, I wonder whats the worst that could happen? Your goal is to get through as many levels as possible, you do this by getting both players on the green tile, the rest of the game is explained at the start! My 1st submission for the Love2D 2023 Game jam(Link here ...
by fridays18
Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Do you want to be a npc in my 2023 game jam game?
Replies: 1
Views: 1437

Do you want to be a npc in my 2023 game jam game?

For the love2d jam im planning on having the npc's have real peoples stories! If youre interested in being in the game as an npc just fill out the forum :)
(NOTE: Im not making the game before the jam but I want to get the info before I the jam tomorrow)

https://forms.gle/vSfsMmQiPDfD14feA
by fridays18
Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: How can I make my code better ? [solved]
Replies: 6
Views: 1929

Re: How can I make my code better ?

I wrote some code for loading and saving a file, I was just thinking how can I make it better l = {} function l.load() if love.filesystem.getInfo("score.lua") then return(love.filesystem.read("score.lua")) else love.filesystem.newFile("score.lua") love.filesystem.write...
by fridays18
Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:13 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Programming in Love2D through a web based editor
Replies: 2
Views: 1541

Re: Programming in Love2D through a web based editor

Personally I found this but no idea what it's worth: https://schellingb.github.io/LoveWebBuilder/ Otherwise there was already a topic in 2019 on this question: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=86353 Also only for online "compilation" there is the 2dengine site that manages it: ht...
by fridays18
Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Programming in Love2D through a web based editor
Replies: 2
Views: 1541

Programming in Love2D through a web based editor

For the past year or so ive been using replit for everything involving code compilation and usage, I do this since Im a senior in hs and we use chromebooks so ive needed a online method to code, but recently replits output system has stopped working so although I can code in love I cant test the pro...