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.

Tutorials

Programming Playdate YouTube video

Getting Started with the Playdate SDK (Windows-based)

Everything About Playdate SDK Collisions in 7 Minutes

Compiling Lua projects on Windows

Development environments

VS code - Windows LUA development template This template will help you with autocompletion and running your code in simulator.

Libraries

AnimatedSprite: Extends Playdate's sprite capabilities.

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

GFXP Lib GFXP is a small library with a collection of patterns for Playdate.

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.

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

GFXP Pattern Editor v2: A simple browser tool for creating new patterns and a large library of ready-made ones. Now with the ability to create your own library.