Is it just the "interpreted" over "compiled" that is the ACTUAL difference I believe that the terms 'script' and 'scripting' apply to all interpreted languages (languages that do not run natively on a platform). Lua code can be 'compiled' too but the resulting Lua bytecode still...

It should be noted that Box2D (2.0.1 not sure about later versions) doesn't report collisions between 2 static shapes.

function isLetter (char) return (char == 'a' or char == 'b' or char == 'c' or char == 'd' or char == 'e' or char == 'f' or char == 'g' or char == 'h' or char == 'i' or char == 'j' or char == 'k' or char == 'l' or char == 'm' or char == 'n' or char == 'o' or char == 'p' or char == 'q' or char == 'r'...

I mean, you could place every word in a table. But then checking them all would be extremely time consuming. It would probably work if the table words are KEYS to the table. Scanning a database from file would probably be too slow unless the database is indexed (you have an index table which stores...

Pretty cool concept. However I have a few suggestions:
-No altitude meter? No pitch/bank indicators?
-Flying with the gear down should lower your airspeed since it produces extra drag
-It might be cool to have some weather effects like wind
Good job though this is a nice prototype.

CaveStory and VVVVVV wouldn't be a problem at all for Lua/Love but I think a game Limbo might not be feasible without modifying the C++ code of Box2D. Limbo, in my opinion, is way more advanced technologically than either CaveStory or VVVVVV. I would say it depends more on your architecture design s...

Hey, just wanna say that I love the artstyle and the character designs.

cos and sin work with radians. In order to keep the distance between the 18 circles equal you would have to do something like: for i = 1, 18 do local angle = i/18 * math.pi + rotation local x, y = math.cos(angle), math.sin(angle) -- draw circle at x*radius, y*radius end 'radius' is the distance betw...

Pretty cool. I have a prototype that's quite similar to your app. Just a small suggestion: function checkAround(px, py) local dirs = { [1] = {0, -1}, [2] = {1, -1}, ... It's usually better to allocate tables that don't change only once. Lua is an interpreted language so it doesn't know that 'dirs' i...

I tried locking the mouse to the window, then constantly moving the mouse to the center of the window and checking if the mouse moves to the left or the right. That probably won't work very well especially in windowed mode. If the user sweeps the mouse really fast and presses a button the Love wind...