New to LUA coding need help with 2 things!

[lukespalding]

Right well i have 2 problems, one is that i want to create A.I so that item will fall from top of the screena nd my player will touch them and they will dissappear and a point added to players points and the other is that when i play my agme then exit back to the lua player i cannot run the game again the memory card light flashes for about 2 sec's then it just stops flashing and the game starts then just goes of straight away and i dont know why?!
i really need some help on these two things so please give me any information about these things if you know of any.
luke spalding

[PiCkDaT]

Right well i have 2 problems, one is that i want to create A.I so that item will fall from top of the screena nd my player will touch them and they will dissappear and a point added to players points and the other is that when i play my agme then exit back to the lua player i cannot run the game again the memory card light flashes for about 2 sec's then it just stops flashing and the game starts then just goes of straight away and i dont know why?!
i really need some help on these two things so please give me any information about these things if you know of any.
luke spalding

for the A.I. you are on your own for now cause I dont have the time to write something at the moment, but as for your game.. do you have a quitter variable?

for example

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do while quitter == false

...

if pad:start() then quitter = true end

...

end

if so then your problem may be that quitter still = true so at the top of your code fix it by re declairing it

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quitter = false

...

do while quitter == false

...

if pad:start() then quitter = true end

...

end

[lukespalding]

-- Created by Luke Spalding --
-- On the 16/10/2007 --

-- this activates the usb mode so you can edit this script easyily--
System.usbDiskModeActivate()

-- these are the colors that i can use within the game --
AliceBlue=Color.new(240,248,255)
cyan = Color.new(0, 255, 255)
green=Color.new(0,255,0)
black=Color.new(0,0,0)
white = Color.new(255,255,255)
yellow = Color.new(255, 255, 0)
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background = Image.load("images/background.PNG")
player1 = Image.load("images/player1.PNG")

screenwidth = 480 - player1:width()
screenheight = 272 - player1:height()
player1x =200
player1y =204

gamestate = "paused"

screen:clear()
screen:print(80,136, "Christmas Pac Man Created By Luke Spalding", AliceBlue)
screen:flip()
screen.waitVblankStart(240)

-------------------------------------------------

-- functions --
-- this checks the controls you press ingame --
function checkcontrols()
pad = Controls.read()


if pad:right() and gamestate == "game" then
player1x = player1x +4
end


if pad:left() and gamestate == "game" then
player1x = player1x -4
end






function playGame()
screen:clear()
pad = Controls.read()

if pad:start() then
gamestate = "paused"
end
end


if pad:cross() and gamestate == "paused" then
gamestate = "game"
end

if pad:select() and gamestate == "paused" then
exitgame = 1
end
end

function drawall()
screen:clear()
screen:blit (0,0,background,false)
screen:blit(player1x,player1y,player1)
screen.waitVblankStart()
screen.flip()
end

function paused()
screen:print(160,145,"Press X To Play christmas pac man",black)
screen:print(160,155,"Press Select to Quit",black)
screen:flip()
screen.waitVblankStart()
end
-- main loop --

while true do
checkcontrols()
drawall()

if gamestate == "paused" then
paused()
end

if gamestate == "game" then
playGame()
end

if exitgame== 1 then
break
end
end

thats my whole game code so if anybody could take a look at that and help with the exiting in the lua player then please do if not dont rob the game ok thanks

P.S
i forgot if u have any idea on how to do AI then message me thxz

[PiCkDaT]

just like I said above check if you have a quit variable(which you do)

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if exitgame== 1 then 
break 
end 

if you look at the top of your code you dont have anything to make it = 0 again. If you are running LOWSER it doesn't quit LUA so therefor some variable's are still loaded into the memory to fix this just add somewhere before your main loop

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exitgame = 0

should solve your problem