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
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
- Controlling the Bird
- Spawning Trees
- Crank Indicator
- Scenes
- Refactoring Gameplay Reset
- Introducing a State Table
- Breaking Our Code Into Multiple Files
- Extra Credits
- What’s Next
Sokoban
Dungeon Crawler - Part 1
Dungeon Crawler - Part 2
- Organizing Our Code
- Multiple Maps with Stairs
- Random Encounters
- Combat
- Player Stats & Enemy Attacks Back
- Death
- Extra Credits
- What’s Next
Playdate by Example
Outro
- Start Small
- Releasing Your Playdate Games
- Continue to Learn
- Backing Up Your Games
- Beyond Playdate
- Game Development Tools
- Assets
- Thanks & Credit
Playdate Cheatsheet
Lua Cheatsheet
Style Guide
- Lua Styles
- Project Structure

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Playdate by Example

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Text

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Use a Font

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Audio

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Play a Sound Effect from WAV File

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Creating a Sound Effect Table Module

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Debugging

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Capturing Gameplay Footage

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Release Steps

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Playdate by Example
Text
Audio
Debugging
Capturing Gameplay Footage
Release Steps