I'm still not sure what you're trying to do. In your first code you used manual CPU-side pixel copying, now you're using the Canvas objects (which will greatly improve on speed as it'll use the GPU instead), but neither are being used in a way that couldn't already be done by drawing the contents di...

Hi. Before saying anything, do you have more info on what you're trying to do, like screenshots or sketches etc? Anything that would explain what end result you're after. Also, are you planning on saving the resulting background image onto disk, like to a PNG image file, or is that image just suppos...

If I were tasked with creating a text-based game, I would work on it in steps: 1) First get the UI all in place, even if it's a simple font, showing a sample text paragraph ("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."), and make sure that I can break text in lines so I can format paragraphs for things...

MaxGamz wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:03 pm I'm trying to design a level but I have been having problems thinking of ways to make it fun.

What is your game about, what mechanics do you have in there?

The scaling technique used in Shovel Knight is very interesting, it's a compromise between getting the largest canvas size possible, with minimal blurriness. https://uploads.gamedev.net/monthly_2018_07/screen_09.png.82ca308ec8271d6f5dbe2ce3c1b19628.png https://uploads.gamedev.net/monthly_2018_07/sho...

Edit: in the draw function, is P1_jab nil, or is jab_activeFrame? For the latter to be nil, it means that the jabFrames table is being indexed with some key that leads to no value, therefore it returns nil. Remember that in Lua tables are usually indexed from 1 and above, see if that's not the caus...

I am new to game developing as am doing as final project for a course. Hm, now that I think about it, isn't it odd that your course asked you to do a project but didn't teach you the fundamentals needed to make that project? Anyway, you need two switches / flags: one that tells if the character 'is...

Hi. That's a fun but also very complicated part of coding your game, when you're taking input events and translating them into behaviors in your game, so as to solve the problem of "when I press a key I want to trigger this thing to happen, and this thing will go on by the next few frames regar...

I'm programming a game that has walls and the player and other entities hide before them by using stencil. The thing is that I would like to show the items behind but with some opacity instead of its hide. You can still do that with the stencil test, you just change the logic you use. You clear the...

Hi. It's been a long time (that post was on Oct 2021). My current view on the topic is: it's simpler if you just think of what you're trying to do on screen, and only then worry about the abstractions you need for those things to happen. Visually, what you want to do is to have elements moving aroun...