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Thanks for sharing! I wanted to do the same, went to school for it, but it seemed like my passion would be exploited and I opted to design traditional software

Thanks for sharing! I wanted to do the same, went to school for it, but it seemed like my passion would be exploited and I opted to design traditional software instead. So far so good! Care to share your libraries?

otikik 4y ago
My libraries were originally made in Lua in order for me to better work with and learn the LÖVE framework. * inspect.lua [1] is the most popular one. It transforms any Lua value (including deeply nested tables) into human-readable strings. It is very useful for debugging all kinds of Lua projects, not just games. It is a partial reason why I got my current web dev job at Kong. * middleclass [2] is somewhat popular amongst people coming into Lua from OOP languages. I don't use it myself anymore and consider it a bit of a "clutch". Still, it has helped a lot of people. * bump.lua [3] is a box-based collision detection and resolution library. The later part has some known bugs I never figured out. Still has been used by some people to do some fun stuff. * gamera.lua [4] is a minimalist camera-system for LÖVE. * anim8 [5] is an animation library for LÖVE There's many other projects on my github profile. I must warn you that they are all in several degrees of disrepair, I pretty much abandoned all of my open source efforts when my first child was born. Ran out of free time and energy. These days, when I want to scratch my game-making itch, I fire up PICO-8, an even more minimalistic gamedev environment than LÖVE. I find the limitations it imposes refreshing. It also means that I cannot use most of my old libraries. Which is fine. [1] https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua [2] https://github.com/kikito/middleclass https://github.com/kikito/middleclass [3] https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua [4] https://github.com/kikito/gamera.lua https://github.com/kikito/gamera.lua [5] https://github.com/kikito/anim8 https://github.com/kikito/anim8

otikik 4y ago

My libraries were originally made in Lua in order for me to better work with and learn the LÖVE framework. * inspect.lua [1] is the most popular one. It transforms any Lua value (including deeply nested tables) into human-readable strings. It is very useful for debugging all kinds of Lua projects, not just games. It is a partial reason why I got my current web dev job at Kong. * middleclass [2] is somewhat popular amongst people coming into Lua from OOP languages. I don't use it myself anymore and consider it a bit of a "clutch". Still, it has helped a lot of people. * bump.lua [3] is a box-based collision detection and resolution library. The later part has some known bugs I never figured out. Still has been used by some people to do some fun stuff. * gamera.lua [4] is a minimalist camera-system for LÖVE. * anim8 [5] is an animation library for LÖVE There's many other projects on my github profile. I must warn you that they are all in several degrees of disrepair, I pretty much abandoned all of my open source efforts when my first child was born. Ran out of free time and energy. These days, when I want to scratch my game-making itch, I fire up PICO-8, an even more minimalistic gamedev environment than LÖVE. I find the limitations it imposes refreshing. It also means that I cannot use most of my old libraries. Which is fine. [1] https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua [2] https://github.com/kikito/middleclass https://github.com/kikito/middleclass [3] https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua [4] https://github.com/kikito/gamera.lua https://github.com/kikito/gamera.lua [5] https://github.com/kikito/anim8 https://github.com/kikito/anim8