You might want to use a serialization library like Blob.lua which lets you turn a Lua table into a string, which you can then send over the network. (and turn back into a table on the other side)

I see references in the code to colored text, but console.draw() doesn't actually draw colored text. Incomplete functionality?

Was delightfully simple to integrate. Only needed a tiny tweak: The tilde key ~ on my keyboard layout (finnish) is somewhere else, so I added: function console.enable(enable) enabled = enable return enabled end In order to map the console to F1 instead: function love.keypressed(key, scancode, isrepe...

[...] about Xii's complaint about lack of edge detection for keys; I said it was no big deal, as I don't think it's a frequent use case, [...] Jumping in a platformer. Shooting in a shooter. Activating a special ability. Pressing undo. It's a very frequent use case to detect single key presses. And...

How about love.keyboard.isDown(key)? Or am I wrong? That doesn't tell you the key was pressed right now. It just tells you the key was pressed sometime in the past and is still held down. It will be true for every frame until the key is released, not just the first frame after it has been pressed.

LÖVE feels less like a framework for gamedev and more like a Lua wrapper for SDL. Which is fine, but it means that simple things you'd want to do are frequently implemented in weird, obtuse mechanisms. The documentation gives the false impression that everything is simple and easy. But all of the pr...

Still putting the fundamentals together. Next on the list is loading sprites into an atlas. Solutions probably exist but it might be less work to do it meself than study libraries.

I use moonblob . Makes it easy to save/load any table from disk. local writer, reader = require("BlobWriter"), require("BlobReader") local filesystem_identity = "68841bcfb1b0c875" state = {} function save_state() love.filesystem.setIdentity(filesystem_identity) local bl...

In particular, double-precision floating-point numbers can exactly represent all integers from -9007199254740992 to 9007199254740992 inclusive. The first integer they can't exactly represent is 9007199254740993 = 2^53 + 1. Oh, ok. I've been taught to never assume floating point is exact, ever. :cra...

Record short voice samples, then play them randomly in rapid succession.

Actual AI generated gibberish is a new technology that hasn't matured yet. A couple years out.