Love 2d Base Game

This is my experimental setup for making games with love2d.

Setup

You will need love2d installed to try out this project. To install the dependencies you will need to use bower.

Installing dependencies

$ bower install

Why Bower?

With Bower i have a more flexible setup on my dependencies, i can add not prepared github projects and also straight .lua files.

What is this architecture?

I am planning on doing a some kind of ECS, but in a more database like oriented models.

Not really using entities but using the data like a relational database.

I call it "MERS"".

• Models, relational database like structures that represnts the state of the game
• Events, works like a routing system, and they are like any events in any other game structure.
• Renderes, access models in a read-only fashion, should not mutate the game state.
• Systems, they are responsible to edit the game state, listening to events.

Does it work?

I have no idea, that's why i am testing it, it makes sense on my mind but i need to really try it out to be sure that it works.

Isn't making your own "testing framework" a bad idea?

Yes it is, but making my own test structure i can test the code using the love2d functions and libraries.

How to run the code?

$ love .

How to run the tests?

Change RUN_TESTS to true in configurations.lua and then run the "game" as you would normally.