9/10, could use more screams of agony.

Cute. I like the speedy bird.

Update 1.20 Changes since 1.19 : Library: getOutputSoFar() can now take an output buffer argument. Detecting duplicate names in dual code: !!x, x = ... Fixed evaluate() sometimes raising an error instead of returning it. Fixed issue with files not ending with a newline. Fixed silly internal error w...

You can't have two love.draw functions. The latter replaces the previous one. Put all your rendering code in the same function.

Color values go between 0 and 1 in the later LÖVE versions. Earlier it was between 0 and 255.

Use love.filesystem.write and love.filesystem.read to write and read save files. To save data to a file you need to serialize the data to a string first (and deserialize the string when loading). There are numerous libraries to help with that.

Update 1.19 Changes since 1.18 : Library: All uses of `!` now work in macros. Added functions: getIndentation() , getCurrentIndentationInOutput() , getOutputSoFarOnLine() , writeFile() . Added function readFile() as alias for getFileContents() . (The latter is now deprecated.) Added environment arg...

This seems fine for a beginner's game. Nice job. It's very difficult to avoid damage. Maybe more ships should just shoot forward instead of aiming at the player, or just have fewer ships. Some ships are also shooting from outside the screen. Note that you should be careful when distributing files yo...

You probably want to have a look at the wiki too: https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

I dug, explored, exploded, became a grave, explored the afterlife as a grave, collected 51 out of 42 possible gems, and barely escaped an all-consuming black void from above. Amazing.