I've often handled player controls in love.update, using functions like love.keyboard.isDown. Is that better or worse than using love.keypressed and love.keyreleased, in terms of demands on the hardware? I'm currently trying the later for a change. I.e. when 'move' key is pressed, player.move=true. ...

Since love.filesystem contains knowledge about the game's save directory, how would one go about creating a lua script that can generate a shortcut to that directory? It seems like that would save people significant time and energy.

Often, when I 'require' another file, I create a load function in that file, within which I define everything else that I need. I then run that load function in love.load. Is that dumb? When I 'require' something from another file, is that already the same as running the contents of that required fi...

I can't help, but this is exactly the kind of stuff I need to approach next. So now that I've posted here, it'll be easy for me to return to.

Related question: How does one go about choosing an OOP library? Is the following list kept up to date? https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Libraries

What's the best way to do this? What's the basic concept? a) Move from position A to position B IF AND ONLY IF position B isn't a collision(with an impenetrable object)? b) Move from position A to position B, and if position B is a collision, then re-adjust? c) something else? QUESTION 2: should a m...

Have any of you run into unusual problems following this strategy? i'm sorry but i don't understand the way you draw your cube, so i will take time to read your code and try to make some light on that Aaah! No hurries, I'll confess I'm haven't gone in to make things super-readable. In fact, I'll ta...

http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/sanjiv85/love_game_programming/f6fea371722948fba7ea76e5513e7a70.png?v=68392 Based on the constraints I've put in, the vertical lines in the cube (hopefully there's a pic up) will always be vertical. I initially put this constraint in to simplify the ma...

I'm not clear on what problem you're looking at. When moving horizontally on the top platform, I think I noticed the player hit a bump, but I could not get this to happen again. Is that (and only that) the current problem you're trying to solve?

I've been working on some stuff related to this project. The attached LOVE file features a cube that can rotate, and which has "skins" attached to its sides. I'll should be able to apply it to whatever new Isomap you eventually come up with.

The Aa..aahH game play was fun. If there's something like health bar, it'd be cool to tie the damage done to the density of the mob, so you'd reward players for managing the crowd, even if they couldn't completely escape it. That's something I found myself trying to do -- luring mobs to where I want...