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* [https://dev.playdate.store/tools/gfxp/ 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. | * [https://dev.playdate.store/tools/gfxp/ 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. | ||
* [https://devforum.play.date/t/importer-for-ldtk-level-editor/1547 LDtk importer]: A tool to import tilemaps made in LDtk | * [https://devforum.play.date/t/importer-for-ldtk-level-editor/1547 LDtk importer]: A tool to import tilemaps made in LDtk | ||
=== Other/Miscellaneous === | |||
* [https://github.com/sayhiben/awesome-playdate Awesome Playdate]: A list of awesome resources for game development on Panic's Playdate console. | |||
Revision as of 16:04, 27 October 2022
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
IDE Integrations
- Nova editor extension
- Visual Studio Simulator build integration
- Visual Studio Debugging
- VS code - Windows LUA development template This template will help you with autocompletion and running your code in simulator.
- Playdate VS Code Template (Mac) Build and run projects in the Playdate simulator (on Mac) with a key shortcut.
- VS Code (Mac OS only) launch extension
- Visual Studio Code extension (Unofficial) Build and debug Playdate games
- Visual Studio Code cookiecutter template
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.
- Panels Build scrolling interactive comics for the Playdate console.
- Noble Engine The Playdate SDK is probably the most user-friendly console SDK ever made, but if you're familiar with state/scene-based game engine frameworks like Unity, Flixel, Citrus, or others, you may be looking for a library that can get your game "on its feet,” extend existing APIs, offer new features, or provide more intuative ways to leverage the SDK in your game.
- Cotton If you are a relatively new developer coming from Pulp, this framework will make the jump a little easier. With most of the function of Pulp + a LDtk preconfigured, making your games will be easy!
- Roomy-Playdate A scene management library based on the popular Love library
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.
- LDtk importer: A tool to import tilemaps made in LDtk
Other/Miscellaneous
- Awesome Playdate: A list of awesome resources for game development on Panic's Playdate console.