Lua Game Systems

// the brief

A good map is not a game. Players need progression, feedback and a reason to come back — and that's all logic. This is the part I enjoy most: wiring systems together until the world actually responds.

// how I approached it

01

Started small: one checkpoint system, thoroughly understood, before adding anything else.

02

Rebuilt every system from scratch rather than pasting it in — reading example code, testing it, then writing my own version.

03

Kept each system in its own script with comments, so a collaborator can change one thing without breaking the rest.

04

Learned saving the hard way: what happens when a player leaves mid-session is where most bugs live.

// what I learned

• Working checkpoint, shop and interaction systems in Lua
• Progress saves correctly across sessions
• Code commented well enough for a teammate to edit

// tools