Ok, thanks for all the help!

Right, I understand. I've implemented your suggestions (except for omitting parentheses), many thanks for your review. Two follow-up questions then: 1. Is local scoping everything always the ideal scenario, or are there exceptions? For example, I'm declaring fonts and sizes to be used throughout the...

Ha, that was the missing part. As I'm not setting any default values or passing defaults upon object construction, I was under the impression I didn't need a metatable (which I do use for game entities). I understand now that it's actually the missing piece. Full working code below for whomever come...

First of all: zorg and pgimeno, many thanks for your help! I've re-read chapters 13.4.1 and 16 and followed your advise, but the behavior is still the same. I'll probably facepalm myself once I realize what I overlooked / misunderstood, but I still haven't been able to wrap my head around it. Here's...

Hi all, I recently starting exploring Lua and Love2D and so far I'm amazed by the ease and versatility of the framework! It's been a really fun journey so far :) It didn't take long before I stumbled across the hump library and started playing with gamestate.lua , but I'm struggling to understand is...