The basic structure of the game is done as you can see in the following code:

--load our assets
function love.load()
   --load all assets here
end




--update event
function love.update(dt)
--do the maths
end


--draw display
function love.draw()
--describe how you want/what to draw.
end

That's just it, well... maybe! So let's play with these chunks one more time.

Now let's edit main.lua to enable loading sample assets that we want to use within the game:

function love.load()

   local myfont = love.graphics.newFont(45)

   love.graphics.setFont(myfont)

   love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0,225)

   love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255,153,0)
end


function love.update()



end

function love.draw()

   love.graphics.print('Hello World!', 200, 200)

end

Before you go on and start coding your game, you need to give your video game some specs such as window width, window height, and window title. So set up a new file named conf.lua; inside it you can then create your game specs as shown in the following code snippet:

function love.conf(w)

w.screen.width = 1024 

w.screen.height = 768

w.screen.title = "Goofy's Adventure"

end

You can manipulate the figures and titles any way and also change that w to whatever variable you want.

The preceding code does the following:

Basically we are using the love.graphics module; it can be used to draw (in the real sense) texts, images, and any drawable object in the scene. In the previous code snippets, we defined our fonts with the love.graphics.newFont(45) that formats our text by declaring the size of the font as 45. setFont() loads the font we defined as myfont, setColor() colors the text in the RGB format, and setBackgroundColor() sets the background.

Then we printed text using the love.graphics.print('text', x, y) function in the draw function with three parameters parsed in it: the text and the x and y coordinates. We are not going to do anything in the love.update() function yet, because we are not dealing with scene events.

So let's load our game as a .love file and see what it displays: