diff --git a/apps/lua/game.c b/apps/lua/game.c
index abd2043..5136cc6 100644
--- a/apps/lua/game.c
+++ b/apps/lua/game.c
@@ -283,9 +283,8 @@ void game_tick(void) {
         lua_register(state->L, "text", b_text);
 
         /* now finally get to running the code */
-        unsigned char *game_buf = NULL;
-        int64_t game_buf_size = file_to_bytes("/scripts/game.lua", &game_buf);
-        if (luaL_loadbuffer(state->L, (char *)game_buf, game_buf_size, "game.lua") == LUA_OK) {
+        state->game_buf_size = file_to_bytes("/scripts/game.lua", &state->game_buf);
+        if (luaL_loadbuffer(state->L, (char *)state->game_buf, state->game_buf_size, "game.lua") == LUA_OK) {
             if (lua_pcall(state->L, 0, 0, 0) != LUA_OK) {
                 log_critical("%s", lua_tostring(state->L, -1));
                 lua_pop(state->L, 1);
@@ -306,6 +305,7 @@ void game_tick(void) {
 
 void game_end(void) {
     State *state = ctx.udata;
+    free(state->game_buf);
     lua_close(state->L);
     free(state);
 }
diff --git a/apps/lua/state.h b/apps/lua/state.h
index 1f20844..e4823e9 100644
--- a/apps/lua/state.h
+++ b/apps/lua/state.h
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 
 typedef struct State {
     lua_State *L;
+    unsigned char *game_buf;
+    size_t game_buf_size;
 } State;