diff --git a/apps/lua/game.c b/apps/lua/game.c
index 5f35919..bb9b91a 100644
--- a/apps/lua/game.c
+++ b/apps/lua/game.c
@@ -285,13 +285,15 @@ void game_tick(void) {
         lua_register(state->L, "text", b_text);
 
         /* now finally get to running the code */
-        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) {
+        unsigned char *game_buf = NULL;
+        size_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) {
             if (lua_pcall(state->L, 0, 0, 0) != LUA_OK) {
                 log_critical("%s", lua_tostring(state->L, -1));
                 lua_pop(state->L, 1);
             }
         }
+        free(game_buf);
         /* from this point we have access to everything defined in lua */
     }
 
@@ -307,7 +309,6 @@ 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 e4823e9..1f20844 100644
--- a/apps/lua/state.h
+++ b/apps/lua/state.h
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 
 typedef struct State {
     lua_State *L;
-    unsigned char *game_buf;
-    size_t game_buf_size;
 } State;