I think the only useful method of 'hiding' the source is compiling to bytecode (luajit -b mycode.lua mycode.out). Then the visible source is simply a shim that adds a bytecode loader. Of course, there are disassemblers and people still could easily distribute modified versions of your game. This is ...

That's very impressive, Lugen. Would be quite nice for a Diablo-esque video game

I watched the last days over your code and i was surprised how much work do you put in the changes, i think the new direction of your system is very good, you have even added new postshader and improved the others like the scanline shader, awesome! I don't know, if you really need my help in the fu...

Stopping the garbage collector stopped the stuttering? Keep it stopped and call collectgarbage("step", 1) each update. I'd test it myself but I'm at school.

But as Robin says, make sure you are not creating objects each frame. Especially something that you don't need to recreate each frame.

have you investigated if it's the garbage collector?

try 'collectgarbage(''stop")' at the start of your minimal test case.

Most interesting 'simple play' game I've seen. I'll pick it up on release (likely for Android).

How will selecting the quadrant work with those rotation animations?

jjmafiae wrote:Big games, with lots of objects, textures and etc.

You'd be better off simply using a different rendering methodology. Adding mantle to love is a waste of time, the performance increase would be less than if made use of dirty rectangles, sprite batches, and so on.

soviet uniform is evil and try to enslave my people. thus v2

14.6 beta has rendering glitches with my R9 290 on Windows 7 x64. I'll wait for stable.

I have Intel integrated on my laptop, but even Intel generates a lot more heat (and thus poweruse) in Linux than under Windows.

What is he? A walking saucer?

Otherwise, very cool.