I have a class on my college on which we can choose what to do as a final project the only requisite being that we need to do something we haven't covered in any class at the degree.

I want to be a Gameplay programmer and saw that many offers ask for Lua, then I think this is an opportunity to do something in Lua and learn the basics but I don't know what to do, any ideas of a simple project I can do in Lua or a framework that uses Lua that can teach me the basics of it?

Tl;Dr: Want to do a small project in Lua, have no idea what to do tho. Ideas?

Coffee & Cat GIFs.

I would react pretty much as this Guy did.

Took part on the Global Game Jam this weekend :)

When you are programming and you feel philosophical

Don't know if this has been already posted 😂

Yesterday I realized that with the improvement in 3D printing, soon we will probably be able to download more RAM.

It also applies to using structs instead of classes.

Jenga driven programming:
Stack pieces of code on top of each other until everything falls down and you have to restart shit.

I've discovered that working with artists on a videogame is the equivalent of the chapter when Homer asks for a wish to a monkey arm on the Simpsons.

- I want a png image of the player on idle position. And I dont want a 30000 x 30000 image, neither an image which half of it are transparent pixels, neither the image not to be centered or any strange thing ok?

*They send the image*

- Normal resolution, well drawn, no visual artifacts centered on the image...

*Tries to import it on the game engine*

+ Can't import .jpg format images

- FFFFFFFF#@€&£$$}•{^÷|CK!

This happened after a year working on the same project on the same engine with the same image format specifications.

Worked on my machine

Best experience: Learned about templates

Worst experience: Had to use templates

I asked my teammates if it would be ok if I made multithreading code for the collisions of our game engine and they just sent me this, I'm going to try anyway. Yolo.