This is a very fragile and hacky script but I like it. I could see myself using something like this as a crude scraper tool. Here I have cleaned up the code a little bit: local https = {} https.timeout = 0 https.js = [[ var script = %script%; var url = %url%; var method = %method%; var data = %data%...

Have not tested your code but it looks fine. I would set the metatable last: This should prevent bugs if you are doing something weird in the parent class metamethods

Welcome aboard.
There already is a love2d discord server:
https://discord.gg/rhUets9

For most games you are rarely going to have more than a few hundred sprites moving on the screen at the same time.
If you want to make large levels with thousands of objects then you absolutely have to partition the level into sections.
This is not easy to do in a clean, generic way.

applyForce divides the acceleration to apply, by the mass of the body, so you have to compensate for the mass in order to apply an acceleration. The problem with applyForce is illustrated by the formula: force = acceleration*mass acceleration = change in velocity/time where "time" is the amount of ...

I wrote a calculator that can find the missing constants for you: https://2dengine.com/?p=platformers#Calculator Note that you need to input at least 2 of the following 4 constants: jump height, gravity, initial velocity and time to apex. The jump height you already know to be 24*2 (ideally you want...

I'd rather test LuaJIT since that's what I'm deploying

When profiling, you will ALWAYS be profiling the Lua code, not the underlying binaries.

Beat detection is generally unreliable AND difficult to implement. You should make beats manually; make a simple tool that will allow you to synchronize beats with audio and export beat tracks. Then you can use these beat tracks together with audio tracks in game. Yes, you can build your game aroun...

I'm not an expert in this area but I have dabbled a little bit with rhythm-based gameplay and audio visualizations. For starters, you need to make sure that you understand the difference between beat detection and more simple ways of analyzing the raw audio input. For example this is an oscilloscope...

Love2D uses LuaJIT so you have to make sure that tool is compatible with LuaJIT. I don't see LuaJIT mentioned anywhere in the docs. Generally speaking, profiling with LuaJIT is hard because it's super optimized and some hooks are not triggered at all. I would love to see a better way to profile Love...