cave game - generic terraria clone

[milon]

Fun game!!

And water is pretty hilarious - you can mine it with the pick, trees and leaves prevent water from flowing, and it falls *really* slowly. That's not criticism - I actually enjoyed that. Even though I'm pretty sure it's not the long term goal.

My one real (small) complaint is what happens when you dig/build/whatever, leave the area, and come back. Everything is reset. I assume the world isn't just generated in chunks, but also forgotten in chunks too. And I assume that isn't planned for the long term either.

Oh, and I also couldn't figure out how to use ropes. I got them placed, but can't figure out how to climb.

[josh_uu]

Thanks milon! To grab onto the rope, try presssing W. (I can't remember if I had implemented rope mechanics by the time I uploaded that .love file) As far as water goes, I might just leave it for comedic effect. Chunks will be permanent once I get around to implementing saving and loading though.

I've also started posting updates onto an itch.io page if anybody wants to keep track of progress.
https://cavegame.itch.io/play

[josh_uu]

Heyo! I've been working on things for a little while longer, and i've managed to get a lot more than I expected done.

Tri-color, multithreaded lighting has been implemented, along with threaded file I/O for world loading and saving. I've also gotten a menu for the game, so you can save and load from several different worlds. There's a lot of other crap too, but I don't have much time to type at the moment.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions and help with finding issues!

[Nobody5050]

Awesome game! Love the comedic water. (Dont stop posting updates here) maybe try adding generation in the sky.

[Jasoco]

Not entirely sure what you mean by clamping velocity, but what I usually have in the start of love.update(dt) is:
if dt > 0.1 then dt = 0.1 end

dt = math.min(dt, 0.1) works just as well. Don't know if there's any performance issues. (Negligible if any)