vaughantay/roguelove

Roguelike engine written in Lua. Designed to be used with the LÖVE game framework (http://love2d.org)

roguelove's Issues

Status? Is this still alive?

Just wondering about the status of this project. Is it complete or at least useable? If not complete, what is outstanding that a dev would need to know about before using this framework?

Change modding system

It's would be cool to have modding system similar to Cataclysm DDA game:

• All mods have same structure (kindaa similar)
• Base game data is in it's own mod (not similar :( )
• Each mod loads it's own data (similar)

So I suggest to move data files into it's own mod (there will be no data folder, so make global variables for all data) and during mod load each supported file in each mod will merge it's return with global variable.
Like

-- Global data table
data = {achievements = {}}

-- Load mod with name 'name'
local function load_mod(name)
   -- List of file names to load from mod (all filenames that now in data folder)
   local files = {'achievements'}
   -- Load each file
   for _, part in ipairs(files)
      local path = 'mods/' .. name .. '/' .. part
     
      if love.filesystem.exists(path) then
         -- Get returned table from mod file
         local mod_data = require('mods/' .. name .. '/' .. part)
         for k, v in pairs(mod_data) do
            data[part][k] = v
         end
      end
   end
end

So core data as other mods will have same structure and loading will be simplified (because of unification), And it will be possible to delete core data because global variables for data containment will be created not in data files.
I can do PR for this but idk if there will be changes to data.

data/ai.lua:464: attempt to index field 'target' (a nil value)

Got this error when played, attacked the enemy.
I was unable to copy error (Ctrl + C or tap didn't worked) so I wrote some part of it by hand (to copy and navigate to main error functions) and attached the screenshot

Error

data/ai.lua:464: attempt to index field 'target' (a nil value)

Traceback

[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
data/ai.lua:464: in function 'moveAlongPath'
data/ai.lua:140: in function 'basic'
classes/creature.lua:937: in function 'advance'

Any plans to make some docs available?

Would love to give it a try, especially with 7drl coming. Any plans to make some docs or implement ldoc or something?