SDK Resources

This page lists resources that are available for free to help you with developing games on Playdate - everything from free assets, libraries to extend Playdate's capabilities, or tutorials to help you get up to speed.

SDK

Libraries

AnimatedSprite: Extends Playdate's sprite capabilities.

Playdate Aseprite Palettes: An Aseprite extension giving you palettes representing Playdate's 1-bit colour palette.

Pulp

Tutorials

PulpScript Tutorial: A tutorial that goes over the basics of PulpScript. Concise and to the point.

Assets

160 micro roguelike tiles: 160 1bit 8×8 tiles for RPG or roguelikes. In the package you'll find walls, enemies, items, interface elements and more.

Useful 1bit sprites: Textures, patterns and various theme icons sprites. More here

1800 Pulp compliant tiles: Large tileset to get you going.

Playdate Input Icons: D-pad, A, B, Crank & power icons made by Dev_the_cord on discord.

Fonts

Playdate Blackletter: A spooooky font for Pulp developers.

Neven's Free Fonts: Three free fonts for Pulp.

June: June is a multilingual, high-resolution bitmap font with some playful curves and distinctive letterforms, inspired by portable game fonts of the 00's.

Tools

Ditherlicious: 1 Bit Image Dithering tool