Lua is very multi-paradigm so it certainly made for an interesting place to start. The most valuable thing I learned is profiling before optimizing. The way Lua tables work also helped me understand the advantages of different data structures, because if you don't, the flexibility is fairly treacherous. Lua also convinced me that static typing is very useful.
You made such a nice game in your first shot at "learning programming".
You sure you're not here just to get some sweet promotion by exploiting the good old "I'm a newbie, I made this, please see if I did good" technique on which everyone goes awww.
The source will end up on GitHub when I get the chance to tidy things a little! For now, you could dig into the .love (which is just a renamed zip archive) that is available for the Linux preview. But you definitely shouldn't because I'll be pretty embarrassed.
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You sure you're not here just to get some sweet promotion by exploiting the good old "I'm a newbie, I made this, please see if I did good" technique on which everyone goes awww.