How do I properly organize all my scripts so they work together?

Hello!

I’ve been having this issue recently where I felt like whenever I script alot of different things in one game, it gets chaotic and messy. I got to learn of different ways to organize code and folders to make things more clean. I also got to learn more about OOP and the use of module scripts to clean up code, but still, I cannot figure out how to properly make good code from the beginning of when I start on new projects.

Usually, when I script a few things and I didn’t make a good system from the beginning of, I start over again. I get burned out of doing that all the time and want a good way to create all features in a game.

What I want is to let all of my scripts be able to communicate with eachother using an underlying framework or something similar. For example, lets say I script a door with a proximity prompt, I have a module script for the door with functions that open/close the door. The door will be an object created using the OOP features of Lua. However, when creating some other feature, I want those other features to be able to communicate with the door system. E.g. open/close a door from a menu in addition to its proximity promt.

Here is what I have tried.
I have tried to make one module script which its sole purpose is to require all the other module scripts I make. The issue with this is that I cannot figure out how to manipulate objects (in my case, i cannot figure out how to access the door object that is already created in a server script at a whole different place)

I hope this all give sense, and I have not been able to figure out how to do this and it has been a real issue to me.

I think you’re overcomplicating simplicity. OOP is supposed to make things readable, but if you overuse it for the sake of OOP it becomes fairly redundant - especially when OOP usually takes up more lines of code anyway. If you create objects then requiring those objects should be fairly simple. In the example you gave of the menu and the doors, the simplest (and most readable) version of the code would be to require the door module when an event (via the menu) is fired.

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