Looking for advice

[maromaro]

Hello, i am new to the framework and i don't know if there is any best practices i should follow or anything like that, for example what approach if best OOP or ECS. so i would appreciate any advice.

[ReFreezed]

My advice is to not listen to any advice.

(Seriously though, everyone's got their own programming style and there's no right or wrong. While one "practice" works well for some, it doesn't work well for others. My actual advice is to look for your own style by doing programming instead of asking random people about what will just end up being a bunch of subjective opinions.)

[maromaro]

My advice is to not listen to any advice.

(Seriously though, everyone's got their own programming style and there's no right or wrong. While one "practice" works well for some, it doesn't work well for others. My actual advice is to look for your own style by doing programming instead of asking random people about what will just end up being a bunch of subjective opinions.)

Thank you i appreciate your response , and i will indeed star developing my own Programming Style.

[sphyrth]

I wanna start the discussion (because I naturally want someone to disagree with this).

If you're new to programming in general, OOP it's intuitive.
If you're quite advanced, ECS is a good option since we're in a generation that says "OOP is Dead".

[maromaro]

I wanna start the discussion (because I naturally want someone to disagree with this).

If you're new to programming in general, OOP it's intuitive.
If you're quite advanced, ECS is a good option since we're in a generation that says "OOP is Dead".

Hello i appreciate your response , i am pretty comfortable with OPP concepts so i naturally tend to use the OOP approach even tho i am not that much of a new programmer. so i don't think that it is a matter of beginner or advanced programmer it's just preference and what approach you used to and "master".

[Nikki]

My advice would be to not upfront pick OOP or ECS, both have their advantages for specific cases but none of them are necessary at all.

Lua is a prototype based language meaning you dont need all the OOP jazz at all, and when you arent developing a RPG with countless enemy types and effects i personally dont see much of a gain in using ECS either.

The thing that ECS does better then OOP (imo) is that it favors Composition over Inheritance.
but to compose some gameobject of smaller parts you dont need ECS at all.

[maromaro]

My advice would be to not upfront pick OOP or ECS, both have their advantages for specific cases but none of them are necessary at all.

Lua is a prototype based language meaning you dont need all the OOP jazz at all, and when you arent developing a RPG with countless enemy types and effects i personally dont see much of a gain in using ECS either.

The thing that ECS does better then OOP (imo) is that it favors Composition over Inheritance.
but to compose some gameobject of smaller parts you dont need ECS at all.

Hi thank you for the advice i appreciate you .

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

My advice which I read about in a book about game programming is to never reinvent the wheel(i.e. Don't waste time making tools that are already made and just focus on your game).
Luckily there are alot of tools for love2d, such as bump, stalker-X, rotLove, jumper, etc.
For more libraries just go to awesome love2d on github. Here's the link:
https://github.com/love2d-community/awesome-love2d

[maromaro]

My advice which I read about in a book about game programming is to never reinvent the wheel(i.e. Don't waste time making tools that are already made and just focus on your game).
Luckily there are alot of tools for love2d, such as bump, stalker-X, rotLove, jumper, etc.
For more libraries just go to awesome love2d on github. Here's the link:
https://github.com/love2d-community/awesome-love2d

Roger that.Thank you i appreciate you.

[FKemp]

My advice which I read about in a book about game programming is to never reinvent the wheel(i.e. Don't waste time making tools that are already made and just focus on your game).
Luckily there are alot of tools for love2d, such as bump, stalker-X, rotLove, jumper, etc.
For more libraries just go to awesome love2d on github. Here's the link:
https://github.com/love2d-community/awesome-love2d

Thanks for sharing, I always end up burning out trying to make tools and the game at the same time. Maybe with tools stuck right at my face I'll finally learn. Having trouble finding free time right now though due to writing my thesis, but I'll probably order from https://prothesiswriter.com/ so I can spend more time developing games.