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.
Fonts
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.
Pulp
Tutorials
PulpScript: A Beginner's Guide: A tutorial that goes over the basics of PulpScript. Concise and to the point.
Make an Adventure Game for the Playdate using Pulp: How to implement health, static hazards, moving hazards, locked doors, and more.
Making a Simple Enemy AI and Attack System: How to make a simple enemy pathfinding AI, how to make the player face the direction you move, a simple sword attack system, as well as locking a room until all enemies are defeated
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.
Little Cianán for Pulp, inspired by Irish manuscripts
Tools
Dithering Oven: Great 1 Bit Image Dithering tool
Jsfxr: Jsfxr is an online 8 bit sound maker and sfx generator. All you need to make retro sound effects with jsfxr is a web browser