Make Games for Playdate with Lua

Brett Chalupa

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Table of Contents

Make Games for Playdate with Lua

Introduction
Hello, Playdate!
Tennis
Clock
Snake
- Moving on the Grid
- Control the Snake
- Spawning Apples
- Adding Snake Pieces
- Don’t Spawn an Apple on the Snake
- Game Over
- Restart the Game
- High-Score
- Reset High-Score
- Finished Source Code
- Extra Credits
- What’s Next
Soaring
Sokoban
Dungeon Crawler - Part 1
- Drawing Player from a Tilemap
- Designing Levels with Tiled and Rendering Them
- Player Movement with Camera
- Map Collision Detection
- Talking to NPCs
- Extra Credits
- What’s Next
Dungeon Crawler - Part 2
Playdate by Example
Outro
Playdate Cheatsheet
Lua Cheatsheet
Style Guide
- Lua Styles
- Project Structure

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Clock

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Drawing the Time

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Respecting Preferences

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Padding Zeroes

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Lowering the Framerate

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Showing Power Details

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Custom Font

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Finished Source Code

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Extra Credits

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What’s Next

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Snake

In this chapter

Clock
Drawing the Time
Respecting Preferences
Padding Zeroes
Lowering the Framerate
Showing Power Details
Custom Font
Finished Source Code
Extra Credits
What’s Next