Use Blob instead. It recently got userdata support when I asked for it!

Ignoring one's environment is hardly intelligence. AI needs to look around and make decisions based on what they see. What you've described is simply random behavior (with some behaviors more likely than others, but not conditionally so). If you add an evaluation function to each node instead of a f...

Instead of pre-deciding on a fixed resolution with black bars around, I adapt to any screen size and orientation. Scaling only by integer multiples (for square pixels), but drawing the upscaled canvas such that the edgemost 1 pixel on all sides "bleeds" outside the screen. That is, the vie...

Ignore all functions in save files? How do you load a Lua file while "ignoring all functions"? data = require("savedata.lua") This super simple and fast mechanism executes everything in savedata.lua. The trouble with it is you have to trust that the file hasn't been maliciously ...

Serializing to Lua like that has the benefit of "free" deserialization by the Lua parser itself, which is implemented in fast C.
The disadvantage is that the save file can execute Lua code, which might not be desirable, especially if players share save files.

Only supports 64-bit numbers (ref) , so not very useful at all. LuaJIT which LÖVE uses supports a wide variety of types (ref) : 8, 16, 32, and 64 -bit signed and unsigned integers. Smaller numbers are important for games with large tile-based worlds. If you only need an 8-bit value, that's 87.5% sma...

Razvii wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 2:16 pm if I ever need the collision function to do more than play a sound I can't have the sound argument be argument #3 of the original function.

Why not? This solves your original question.

A function when passed around is just the function. If you also want to pass around arguments, you have to pass them separately (as you've been trying), or you can wrap the function in a table. In other programming languages this is called a closure or a delegate . This code is a bit weird for educa...

Dang you're right.

leankyr wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:34 pm Should it be the private IP or the public IP?

Generally always the public IP. Private IPs only work on the Local Area Network (LAN), i.e. only for computers connected to your modem/router.