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| title | date | weight |
|---|---|---|
| LÖVE Project Structure | 2019-05-22T12:19:55-07:00 | 15 |
Structuring your project is a crucial component of keeping your Encompass development sane. Let's review how an Encompass project is typically structured.
If we look at the Encompass/LÖVE starter project, it looks like this:
main.ts is the entry point of the game for LÖVE. You can change top-level configuration things here, like setting the window size or whether the mouse is visible. You should review the LÖVE Documentation for more clarification.
conf.ts defines certain information about the game. You can read more about LÖVE Config Files here.
game/game.ts contains a class that defines three methods that are called by LOVE: load, update, and draw. They do what it says on the tin. You will set up your WorldBuilder in the load method. (We'll talk about that in a bit.)
The rest of it is pretty straightforward. Put your music and sprites and such in the assets folder. Define your components in the components folder, your engines in the engines folder, your messages in the messages folder, and your renderers in the renderers folder. (Again, we'll start getting into exactly how to define these in a minute.)
Finally, a quick note about helpers. I like to use classes with static methods for common behaviors that will be useful for many different engines, for example a Color class with a hsv_to_rgb conversion function. Be careful not to abuse helpers. If your helpers need to be instantiated, that is usually a sign that the behavior belongs in an engine.