The plan is simple: get early units to some developers as soon as possible. As I write this, two of us are in Malaysia supervising the build of hundreds of Playdates for this new dev phase. Here’s a peek at our production line: A video showing the factory where Playdate devices are...
@veubeke A video showing an in-development Playdate game. @ttl_anderson and @rokashi @RNGParty @gingerbeardman And remember, every Playdate is a devkit. You won’t need any special hardware if you want to make your own games! And third-party games can be directly installed on a Play...
play.date—showing it is as a text label is fine. Anything that’s generated by the game, long, or too complex to type into a web browser, is best done by displaying a QR code. (Seeplaydate.graphics.generateQRCode).
This is particularly useful—and your code will likely run more efficiently—if you take advantage of oursprite system, which tracks which areas should be redrawn. Showing sprite collision rects Enabling the Playdate > Show Sprite Collision Rects option is a good way to debug yourcollisions. De...