Bumping this because slime has just told me on IRC how to turn an ImageData's string representation back into an ImageData instance. You can make use of the FFI library which allows you to call external C functions. We are making use of FFI's copy() method : local ffi = require("ffi") loca...

Robin wrote:This is more a S&D thread.

"General: General discussion about LÖVE, Lua, game development, puns, and unicorns."

Hey, first of all I think posting this in General is fine. :) I took a look at your code and it looks nice and clean, your OOP approach is totally fine. Here's a couple of things I would change: I would move enemy / mob creation to the game class I would make `enemies` a local variable in game I wou...

What kind of test case did you have sashwoopwoop? Very simple test case indeed. only like 10 out of 256 tiles were walkeable. But it won't get very complicated, so I guess / hope I won't run into performance issues there. :) I'm pretty impressed by this guy's "Trace" algorithm: http://s7....

There's an A*Star for Lua out there. But the problem I encountered myself at the time was that it uses a lot of processing cycles for each instance so having a lot of moving pathfinding entities kept pausing the code. So I had to modify it to use coroutines, which allowed the pathfinding code to ru...

Kingdaro wrote:I love Lua's simplicity, so I wouldn't really change anything about it. The only thing I truly want is assignment operators. This is annoying:

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self.longVariable = self.longVariable + 1

This is less annoying:

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self.longVariable += 1

And zero-based table indizes. Please.

Thanks guys I'm currently struggling with the path finding and visitor movement. But it's slowly getting there. I want it to be a 6 month project, let's see how far I can get

Working on a business management game, will probably be a mall management in the style of rollercoaster tycoon / transport tycoon