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
IDE Integrations
Visual Studio Simulator build integration
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
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.
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.