When your game starts getting more complex, you'll want to look into tables. That will allow you to have objects, in a sense, which contain their own data. So instead of needing new global variables for everything, you can call, for instance, tank.x = tank.speed*100*dt. It would also allow you to h...

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Awesomesauce thank you so much for the quick and informative response. I appreciate it.

for some reason I could not get time::gettime out of my head.. lol

Hello folks. I have finally sorted out what my first project will be. Now I'm stuck lol. A huge portion of my game will depend on the amount of time that has passed. An example of what I am trying to do; Say I want to simulate the discharging of a battery. Start BatteryCharge = 100 (static # or perc...

BlackBulletIV wrote: 1. Parenthesis
2. Exponents
3. Multiplication/division
4. Addition/subtraction

And then you go left to right for everything else.

Same here. Although I did not pass Algebra II Geometry and Trig on the other hand I did in my sleep. **shrugs**

Anxiety - looking at both of your posts it sounds like you are wanting to make a large continuous map for your game, instead of chunks of maps.. If I have that right I can think of a few theoretical ways of doing this. using tiled mapeditor the data is output to XML (map editor does the typing work ...

I believe that the key to teaching people new to programming is all in the specific wording used by the teacher. If you can explain everything using no 'jargon' whatsoever and then gradually build up the technical level of conversation, I reckon that's a good start. That is exactly it. The wiki and...

I spent a few hours last night scouring the web reading up on some lua stuff. I came across some reasonably well done tutorials about the basics of Lua. The one down side is they are all for use on PSP home brew. My new personal task is now to use these and other lua/love examples and build a very ...

Awesome Kikito, this example definitely helped me out in understanding how middleclass works.