Comments on: Diodontidae – postmortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2009/05/02/diodontidae-postmortem/ A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jpfed http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2009/05/02/diodontidae-postmortem/comment-page-1/#comment-6365 Jpfed Tue, 05 May 2009 04:08:12 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=6062#comment-6365 Regarding destroying objects: I’m weirded out by modifying the game objects table while iterating over it. Even if it works, it seems like it shouldn’t. I do something like

– “garbage collect” the gameObjects table
keptObjects = {}
for k,v in ipairs(gameObjects) do
if v.dead then
v.shape:destroy()
v.body:destroy()
else
table.insert(keptObjects,v)
end
end
gameObjects = keptObjects

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