Making a New State or Stage

After learning Mega Man Love's controls, naturally, you'll want to start shoving game stuff into your game.

The State System

About States

There are two types of states:

• State: the file name is formatted with a .state. in-between the name and file extension (Ex. (statename).state.lua). Resources and objects are always cleaned after state-switching.
• Stage: the file name is formatted with a .stage. in-between the name and file extension. Resources and objects are cleaned up if the player has game-overed.

And there are (currently) two supported formats:

• .tmx: Tiled Map Editor tile map files. May use a state object returned by (mapname).lua, if in the same directory. In-editor map properties (Map -> Map Properties... -> Custom Properties) are taken into account:
• • fadeIn: boolean (true by default) -> fade in from previous state.
• • musicPath: string -> music to play. (Check out TODO for more info.)
• • musicVolume: float (1.0 by default) -> music volume from 1 to 0.
• • state: string -> overrides default state choice.
• .lua: must return a state object. (Check out TODO for more info.)