awesome-playdate
github.com/sayhiben/awesome-playdate ↗A list of awesome resources for Playdate (https://play.date) game development and the Playdate SDK (https://play.date/dev/)
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Footnotes
- 2019-05-31: "The Talk Show" - Interview with Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic about PlaydateNews, Background, and Fluff
Interview with Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic about Playdate
- 2019-06-01: Small Wonder: Edge Magazine's Playdate Cover StoryNews, Background, and Fluff
- 2019-12-01: December 2019 UpdateNews, Background, and Fluff
- 2020-09-22: Make Games for Playdate (Panic)News, Background, and Fluff
- 2021-06-08: Playdate Update - 6/8/2021 (Panic)News, Background, and Fluff
6/8/2021 (Panic)
- 2021-06-08: Say Hello to Playdate! (Panic)News, Background, and Fluff
Social
- @amanogamesAccounts to follow
Developing
- @andreintgAccounts to follow
Developing
- @aronegalAccounts to follow
Developing
- @bfodAccounts to follow
Developing
- @cabel@social.panic.comAccounts to follow
Playdate Developer at Panic.
- @castpixelAccounts to follow
Developing
Game Development
- AnimatedSpriteProgramming Frameworks & Languages
A lua-based library for animating sprites. Containing finite state machine, json configuration and plugNplay behaviour.
- Audio: Cirrus 42L52CNZProgramming Frameworks & Languages
- bump.luaProgramming Frameworks & Languages
A 2D colission detection library.
- Code sample in /r/PlaydateConsoleProgramming Frameworks & Languages
- CPU Programming ManualProgramming Frameworks & Languages
- CPU: ST STM32F746Programming Frameworks & Languages
Open Source Playdate Games & Example Code
- Artsy Gallery
- BrickCrusher 2000
Brickbreaker Clone for Playdate
- Factory Farming
- Game of Life
An implementation of Conway's Game of Life meant to provide a template for games to be built in Love2d and ported to Playdate.
- Gimme Friction Baby
Lua/Playdate port of a classic casual Flash game.
- GitHub Repo
Playdate Games & Dev Blogs
Tutorials & How-Tos
- How to Make a Simple Playdate GamePlaydate SDK
How to make a simple Space Invaders-inspired game (Lua)
- Pulp PongPulp
How to recreate the all-time classic Pong
- Unlicensed Paddle GamePlaydate SDK
How to build a Pong clone (Lua)
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