Make Games for Playdate with Lua

Brett Chalupa

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Table of Contents

Make Games for Playdate with Lua

Introduction
Hello, Playdate!
- Counting Frames
- Moving the Text
- Player Input to Change Greeting
- A Gentle Introduction
Tennis
Clock
- Drawing the Time
- Respecting Preferences
- Padding Zeroes
- Lowering the Framerate
- Showing Power Details
- Custom Font
- Finished Source Code
- Extra Credits
- What’s Next
Snake
Soaring
Sokoban
- Moveable Player
- Pushing a Box
- Target Spot
- Counting Steps
- Preparing for Complexity
- Multiple Boxes
- Parsing Levels
- Level Select
- Extra Credits
- What’s Next
Dungeon Crawler - Part 1
Dungeon Crawler - Part 2
Playdate by Example
Outro
Playdate Cheatsheet
Lua Cheatsheet
Style Guide
- Lua Styles
- Project Structure

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Dungeon Crawler - Part 1

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Drawing Player from a Tilemap

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Designing Levels with Tiled and Rendering Them

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Player Movement with Camera

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Map Collision Detection

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Talking to NPCs

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Extra Credits

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What’s Next

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Dungeon Crawler - Part 2

In this chapter

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