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

ummmmm, so I just consistently tried that code thing, but um it didn't work. I don't think Im doing it right so can you give me some more context?

in a fresh project it should look like so:

init = function()
end

update = function()
end

draw = function()
end

to draw text you can just do this within the draw function;

screen.clear()
screen.drawText("hello world",0,0,16,"white")

it would look like this:

init = function()
end

update = function()
end

draw = function()
  screen.clear()
  screen.drawText("hello world",0,0,16,"white")
end

just for the sake of making sure, press the triangle above the game window to start it