- LUA Basics
- An overview of how LUA works, as much as you need to make a simple game
- LÖVE 2D
- Installation of LOVE 2D
- Making a simple game to demonstrate the core concepts
- Principles and further learning
- Higher level advice on game development
- Resources for further learning and communities where you can find help
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The presentation is built with zola, which you can install with a package manager on your system. The presentation also requries bower in order to set up reveal.js.
Once zola and bower are installed, there are only two steps required to build the presentation:
$ cd path-to-repository
$ bower install
$ zola serve
Inside of content/slides, there are a bunch of markdown files and a slides.json file. The slides.json file specifies which slides are going to appear in the presentation and looks something like so:
[
["outline"],
["install/love", "install/windows", "install/mac", "install/linux"]
]
The outer level [] is the list of horizontal slides, and each list contained within it is the set of vertical slides which appear for that slide. The presentation.md file is the title slide.
The slides are markdown files specified by their relative file path in the content/slides directory, without the extension.
The order of the slides can be changed without opening any slide files, which is very useful in practice.
Due to the limitations of zola, the presentation server must be killed and restarted when the presentation is changed.
Note: The title slide specifies the directory which conains the slides and specifies the path to the slide list, which means it is also possible to maintain multiple presentations in the same project, and even share files among different presentations.