or more subtly in certain types of save-files for some games. You got my attention with that. Can you explain a use case pertaining to save files? Instead of saving the current world state (which maybe big and complex) you just save the RNG seed which created that state. "Loading" a game ...

Hexenhammer's Preconfigured SciTE for Windows To celebrate the release of LÖVE 0.9.0 here is a new version of my preconfigured SciTE package for Windows. Changes since last version: - Updated to SciTE 3.3.7 - Default monospace font is now Microsoft Consolas, you must install this font if you don't ...

Well, the first thing I should point out is that whatever love wiki entry regarding how to use love2d thru Scite is now clearly wrong. It just doesn't work. "command.go.main.lua="C:\Path\to\love.exe" "$(FileDir)" <--Nope! Indeed. Try this instead: command.go.subsystem.main....

slime wrote:LÖVE doesn't modify the Lua standard library functions (aside from adding loaders to the package.loaders table for require), so if LuaJIT is being used then math.random will be LuaJIT's version as well.

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Which RNG is used if I just call math.random. Given that LÖVE is now LuaJIT by default does that mean that math.random links to LuaJIT's RNG or has it been linked to the new LÖVE RNG?

That IDE does not have support for anything except the version of Lua it ships with, thus you cannot use LÖVE directly. But you can still do what Yonaba said, edit your files with the IDE but run them manually by drag and droping the project folder on love.exe. Note that the IDE's debugger will not ...

Not sure why I'm asking this, but I thought I read somewhere that improper declaration of variables (style) can impact memory usage within Lua? Lua variables are global by default, limit their life time by making them local. Intuitively the keyword for that is "local" ^^ fatassGlobal = &q...

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I have wondered this for a while. Looking at the bitbucket repo it seems that the guy is responsible for 80-90% of all LÖVE development. Does he post in this forum? If yes, what is his pseudonym?

Given that 0.9 will default to LuaJIT does that mean we will get bitops? An annoying problem is that many algorithms use bitops and thus cannot easily be translated to Lua and may even require some impractically slow high-level emulation of bitops written in Lua. Bitops are an essential feature, eve...