I posted these two articles in another thread, but the subject was different so I'll repost them here instead of linking there.
Tutorials on how to make tile maps and handling tile collisions:
- https://sheepolution.com/learn/book/18
- https://jonathanwhiting.com/tutorial/collision/

I'd like to learn to use the LOVE2D engine as a spare time thing, and I don't want to start off very ambitious, so I was wondering if anyone had good advice on how to start off once I've gotten through the basics of the engine? (...) Would this be a good place to start & work towards or should ...

Hi. Read the error message, it's worth gold: main.lua:9: attempt to index field 'spriteSheet' (a nil value) It says the error is on your "main.lua" script, on line #9, which happens to be this: player.grid = anim8.newGrid( 12, 18, player.spriteSheet:getWidth(), player.spriteSheet:getHeight...

Your image doesn't look like a polygon, but like something painted / raster data. Is your input shape polygonal, or is it a bitmap, or something else? Is it supposed to be animated? Is the center always in the same position, or do you need to calculate the nearest center towards some arbitrary point...

And a really quick question: If off screen objects are using memory like "setting a pipes X coordinate to -100" how could you actually destroy them once they are no longer used. The Lua language standard defines a memory managed environment, and the LuaJIT interpreter used by Löve follows...

Was there a reason why you didn't post the actual code that causes the error?

There was an article on GameDev.net many years ago, something like "So you want to be a game developer?", where it'd posit that the best way to learn how to program games, is to make clones of classic games of progressing complexity. It suggested starting with Pong, then Arkanoid, then Tet...

There's a module in Löve 12: https://love2d.org/wiki/lua-https (It's a standalone HTTP and HTTPS library made by the Löve team themselves by the way: https://github.com/love2d/lua-https) I couldn't find Löve 12 artefacts (binaries) to test, so you'd have to build from source. Ah, here it is, you go ...

Having a two itch projects - one with a paywall, means I'm maintaining two sets of code. Just to clarify: the game engine (the executable with the embedded .love) would be the same in both projects. But the game media assets, including your scene/level files, those would be different and reside out...

I like thestarknight's drag and drop idea, that's very clean. But I'd probably just have the full game as the paywalled version. So there are two itch.io projects: A) game engine + shareware assets B) game engine + shareware + commercial assets. They're both self-sufficient. You can totally unpack t...