You can't draw anything outside of love.draw()

Code can look like this:

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Guys, I agree that optimization is the root of evil. This is just a small useful trick. Positive, if you're not sure about internals just make tests: function love.load() sqx1 = {} sqx2 = {} sqy1 = {} sqy2 = {} for i = 1, 1000000 do sqx1[i] = love.math.random() sqx2[i] = love.math.random() sqy1[i] =...

Sure. For example:

sprite = love.graphics.newImage("sprites/sprite.png")
background = love.graphics.newImage("backgrounds/something.png")

It is not only a matter of better organizing. Imagine you have two files with the same name...

May be not "lie", just "you are wrong"?

Positive07 wrote: ... compiles both cases to the same byte code ... the later could even be faster...

How? Isn't it a contradiction?

Without using math.sqrt program doesn't depend on any optimizations and becomes more readable.

Also take a note that

distance = ((player.x - enemy.x) ^ 2 + (enemy.y - player.y) ^ 2) ^ 0.5

is faster than

distance = math.sqrt((player.x - enemy.x) ^ 2 + (enemy.y - player.y) ^ 2)

Worst thing about Game Maker - it is written in the Delphi, so it almost impossible for developers to port its IDE to other platform. I'll never fill comfortable to develop something on Windows. EDIT: Game Maker also uses its own scripting language - big mistake (Qt also did this mistake), it must b...

Please try. I love being proved wrong - it happens often. Not this time, for sure! Platformers is the next level of mastery (wonder when I reach this level) My fisrt game was exactly "shooter" (very simple game for ZX Spectrum, in the style of "Space Invaders"), then Tetris (of ...

looks cool. :) Thanks! you might as well convert the SVG files to a simpler format that Love2D could just render without doing any math Of course. All that you want to generate procedurally can be done in love.load() or before loading next level of your game. Even create pngs (even texture atlases)...

Check my post in the "What's everyone working on? (tigsource inspired)" section (page 110). May be you find this interesting. Self-intersecting beziers (it's only the beginning of full paths support). SVG import is planned. I'm thinking about full-scale vector editor and new lua+vector gra...