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Autoshooter game in Love2d
I ported a little game I originally made in Macroquad to Love2d. But I have also added additional features, like additional animations and screen shake. I have used HUMP for various utilities. shack ...
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<Programming in Lua - 4th> exercise 2.2 - place 8 queens
About exercise 2.2
Place N queens on N*N board, 1 queen per line, so that all queens are safe.
Use permutation to improve the provided implementation from book.
The ...
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Roblox Lua - System for grabbing ingredients and making a pizza
I have started creating a system that allows players to grab pizza ingredients from a table, and and make a pizza with them. (Currently is just dough and pepperoni). However, despite it all working, ...
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Run UNIT TEST automatically from NeoVim
Still working on my neovim configuration.
I use Google test to write my unit tests. Which means that all the unit test begin with ...
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Add DAP debugging to NeoVim on Mac
Upgrading from vim to neovim (on the mac).
Part of this is to get the DAP debugger working from inside neovim.
I have "Lazy&...
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RandomNumber wrapper in Lua
This is a wrapper I wrote for math.random(). I have a larger program that will create a JSON file to 'load' from when I want to resume. However my program heavily ...
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Try to not repeat function in Lua
There is a way to not rewrite the same part (the cycle for i = 1...end) twice?
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Inverting a boolean in Lua
Is there a more elegant way to set this boolean value?
SetScript() is a game API, while "OnClick" is its handler. What ...
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function to print any type in Lua?
I'm learning Lua for about a week now and I've built (I hope) a function to print any type in Lua. As I'm new to Lua I don't quite understand:
if there is a more succinct way to achieve this
if ...
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First Lua program - Print external IP and VPN status
I started learning Lua yesterday and wanted to write a quick program as a practice.
It queries an external service for the IP address and country code, and naively check for the existence of network ...
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Trailing delimiter string splicing, implemented for Lua in C
I've been writing with C for a couple days, so this is a relatively advanced function compared to the simple things I've been doing previously. It's written for the Lua API, but it's still C.
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Get list of buffers from current neovim instance
The function below is written in Lua and returns the list of buffers from the current neovim session, it also allows the option to specify a optional table (object) as a parameter, with a ...
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3D torus in Lua
I'm a total beginoob in Lua. The aim is to display a 3D Torus in dots (see Figure1), or at least compute the positions, privileging clarity over performance. Pseudocode link.
Don't hesitate to be ...
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Complex number class in Lua
This is my first attemp with Lua.
I decided to create this class, because it have lots of "tweaks" and "tricks".
I want to know if I did it as best practices Lua ways.
My Lua ...
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I wrote my first pathfinding algorithm
I'm currently writing a small game in Lua, using the Love2d framework. I guess I'm doing it as a practice of sorts, but it did give me the opportunity to write my first pathfinding algorithm. I wrote ...
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