I'm having issues.

Can anyone tell me how to add text to my game?

just use screen.drawText("my text",x,y,30,"rgb(197,0,0)")

For this to work, you need to have a draw function and a screen.clear() function. like this code

draw = function() screen.clear() screen.drawText("hello",0,0,30,"rgb(197,0,0)") end