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Love2D : How can I keep up with lots of small sprites' collision data?

So I'm using a SpriteBatch to keep up with lots of small pieces for a falling-piece puzzle game. I have an array of Quads (for different color blocks), and they are randomly added to the ...
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Love2D : Problem rotating image in a SpriteBatch

I'm working on a falling blocks type of game with triangular pieces. I'm using a SpriteBatch to accumulate and remember the pieces and their locations. The problem is that when I rotate a scaled ...
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Automatically triggering standard spaceship controls to stop its motion

I have been working on a 2D top-down space strategy/shooting game. Right now it is only in the prototyping stage (I have gotten basic movement) but now I am trying to write a function that will stop ...
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Is it possible to have the main callback functions in different files with love2d?

Is it possible to have love.load(), love.draw() and love.update() in different files? and if so how would I go about doing that?
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How should I share variables between instances/classes?

I'm making a game using LOVE, so everything is programmed in Lua. I've been experimenting with using classes and object orientation recently. I've found out that a nice system to use is having most of ...
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Game state management (Game, Menu, Titlescreen, etc)

Basically, in every single game I've made so far, I always have a variable like "current_state", which can be "game", "titlescreen", "gameoverscreen", etc. And then on my Update function I have a ...
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Where in code to for collision? In object class? Mainline code?

Making a simple game in Love 2D framework where if I click on an object then it disappears. Do I check to see if I've clicked the enemy inside a function in the enemy object? Or just in my main.lua? ...
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Change Game Icon

Is there a way to change the default LÖVE2D icon to another one? I merge my game.love file and the love.exe with the cmd (copy /b love.exe+app.love game.exe). But after this the executable has the ...
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How can i run my .LÖVE game directly from the lua interpreter?

I've just started with LOVE and LUA , i'm interested in LOVE because i want to play around with something different from my dayjob(i'm a webdeveloper) and since it uses LUA and is interpreted , i ...
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Box2D + Love2D (Lua) - Assertion fail with polygon meshes

When I try to create a triangle collider for my game it sometimes leads to an assertion fail. I use the physics engine that comes with love2d (Box2D). That's the error message that appears when the ...
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Good Tutorial For Lua and LÖVE

I want to make a very simple 2D game, and have been reading a lot of good things about LÖVE, so I want to try it out. However I can't seem to find any good tutorials. The ones on the LÖVE page are ...
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Love2D engine for Lua; What about 3D?

Lua has been really awesome to learn, it's so simple. I really enjoy scripting languages, and I had an equally enjoyable time learning Python. The Love engine, http://love2d.org/, is really awesome, ...