Ahhh, I was using .lua, no wonder. Thanks both of you!
EDIT: Lol, I got a half error screen. Left eye sees the error, right eye sees what I want it to, lmao. Trippy.

 

Seperators in what way? In your example, would the full path be:

Code:

/3ds/lovepotion/game/stuff/stuff/code.lua

?

 

No. The syntax for require is using . as separators, not /, and not writing the file extension.

 

Substance's Sig reminds me I cant build my project for the life of me. I followed the tutorial linked on the github. I run the make file and it builds until it gets to linking build.elf part and it says i was missing things in my devkitARM\arm-none-eabi like libpng and libjpeg. So I installed those portlibs and that message went away but now its saying I dont have libsf2d and libsfil.

Anyone wants to try it out here is the Main and assets to run. Still needs a lot of work
http://giphy.com/gifs/3o6UB9fUwC82bnWqsg
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=79154826757403831196

 

Your problem is that it's drawing both the background and the text in white. Your code should be like this:

Code:

function love.load()
     love.graphics.set3D(false)
     love.graphics.setScreen('bottom')
     love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(0,0,0) --Black background
     font = love.graphics.newFont("font.ttf",15)
     love.graphics.setFont("font.ttf")
end

function love.draw()
     love.graphics.setColor(255,255,255) --White text
     love.graphics.print('Hello World!',20,20)
end

 

Code:

function love.keypressed(key)
if key == "select" then
        dofile(/3ds/homebrew-name]/code.lua)
end

I think this is how you do it.

 

Using dofile() is bad practice, you should use require() instead.

Code:

function love.keypressed(key)
   if key == "select" then
     require('path.to.lua.file') -- Don't add .lua at the end, use dots instead of slashes
   end
end

The path is relative from the game folder, so if you wanted to require game/stuff/character.lua, it would be require('stuff.character')

As TurtleP said above though, you probably just want to require stuff at the top of the script rather than in a function.

 

In the logic section (I believe that's the love.update?)
You could do this several ways, I like to do it like this:

Code:

if (player.x + player.xspeed < 25) {
     player.xspeed = 0;
} //sorry if this isn't lua, I think in C++ lol
//What this does is it checks to see if the player's movement would cause the
//player's x value to be below 25, and if it would, it makes the player's speed 0.
//This probably need a little work to be a tiny bit better, but it should work, and
//this how most collision detection would work. (I'm bad at coding so don't actually
// take my word for anything though hhahaha....)

EDIT: This is lua style (I think):

Code:

if player.x + player.hsp < 25 then --player.hsp is whatever you use for your player's horizontal movement!
     player.hsp = 0
end

 

That works well, but I've seen that cause rubberbanding. Might've done it wrong too. :v /shrug

 

A couple of things are wrong with this.

Code:

function love.update(dt)
  --blahblah
  gameStates[gameState]:update(dt)
end

Calling a table function with a colon, puts the table (aka self) as the first argument.
So technically, it's passing itself as dt, and the actual dt is the second argument.

It's equivalent to:

Code:

gameStates[gameState].update(gameStates, dt)

The second problem is you have a table indexed with strings instead of numbers, so gameStates[1] will return nil.
Instead you should use the string index like so:

Code:

gameStates['intro']