SDK Resources
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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.
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.