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
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
- Variables
- Functions
- Tables
- Strings
- Control Flow
- Operators
- Common Patterns
- Useful Built-in Functions
- Coroutines
Style Guide
- Lua Styles
- Project Structure

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Counting Frames

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Moving the Text

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Player Input to Change Greeting

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A Gentle Introduction

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Tennis

In this chapter

Hello, Playdate!
Counting Frames
Moving the Text
Player Input to Change Greeting
A Gentle Introduction