weapon parent/child hierarchy

mallet.lua

--This is a snippet of a Mallet file

local Weapon = require 'weapon'

function Mallet.new(node, collider)
    local mallet = Weapon.new(node, collider)
    setmetatable(mallet, Mallet)

    -- setup your mallet specific code

    return mallet
end

weapon.lua

local Weapon = {}

-- Creates a new weapon object
-- @return the weapon object created
function Weapon.new(node, collider)
    local weapon = {}
    setmetatable(weapon, Weapon)

    -- setup height, width, collider stuff, etc. here
 
    return weapon
end


--an example function that will be common to all Weapons
-- Called when the weapon begins colliding with another node
-- @return nil
function Weapon:collide(node, dt, mtv_x, mtv_y)
    if node.character then return end
    if not node then return end
    if node.die then
        node:die(self.damage)
    end
end