cheatcode.lua - Add konami code style cheatcodes to your game

[farzher]

Example:

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Cheatcode = require('cheatcode')

local codes = {}
codes['{up}{up}{down}{down}{left}{right}{left}{right}ba{return}'] = function() lives = lives + 99 end
codes.bighead = function() bighead = not bighead end
Cheatcode(codes)

function love.keyreleased(key)
  Cheatcode.handle(key)
end

This might also be useful as a super simple no UI debugging tool (for enabling/disabling `noclip` for example)

Download: https://github.com/farzher/cheatcode.lua

[airstruck]

Interesting use of a trie there

Just a suggestion, you could make it a bit more flexible, eliminate global state and (if you want) metatables by changing the API a bit:

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Cheatcode = require('cheatcode')

local codes = {}
codes['{up}{up}{down}{down}{left}{right}{left}{right}ba{return}'] = function() lives = lives + 99 end
codes.bighead = function() bighead = not bighead end
local cheatcodes = Cheatcode(codes)

function love.keyreleased(key)
  cheatcodes:handle(key)
end

Thought it would be interesting to try to build the trie with pattern matching, it's ugly as hell but here it is:

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local function trie (t, text)
    ('}' .. text .. '{'):gsub('%b}{', function (m)
        return '}' .. m:sub(2, -2):gsub('.', '{%0}') ..'{' 
    end):sub(2, -2):gsub('%b{}', function (m)
        m = m:sub(2, -2)
        t[m] = t[m] or {}
        t = t[m]
    end)
end

http://hastebin.com/qukarasipi.lua

[farzher]

Oh, cool! I've never heard of trie before. I guess that is exactly what I did.
This is probably the best performance solution for this problem, right?

I don't see any advantage to your API change suggestion, it's just a bit more code. Global state I think is good here, you'd never want more than 1 of these.

Your trie function is more confusing than puzzles in The Witness.
Although it's small, and works; that's pretty cool

[Le_juiceBOX]

moist

[Pangit]

Going to use this lib. Very nice. Good job dude.

Update:

Very nice, I use this library for testing. Especially developing new locations in game ect its great to be able to break the game rules ect..