PulpScript

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PulpScript is a friendly scripting language that allows you to add interactivity to your Pulp games. Its syntax is terse but powerful. A good rule of thumb when writing PulpScript is do less, less often.

Documentation

https://play.date/pulp/docs/pulpscript/: Aside from all the tutorials and guides. It's always nice to have the documentation to fall back on. All different PulpScript commands are available for viewing right here.

Learning Pulpscript

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

[1] A blogpost about some interesting Pulp features.