awesome-playdate
A list of awesome resources for Playdate (https://play.date) game development and the Playdate SDK (https://play.date/dev/) (by sayhiben)
awesome-PICO-8
A curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more (by pico-8)
| awesome-playdate | awesome-PICO-8 | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 6 | |
| 599 | 2,724 | |
| 2.0% | 1.2% | |
| 3.4 | 2.5 | |
| 3 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
awesome-playdate
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-playdate.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
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I'm Chris Mandra and Dmitry Zhukov and I created Direct Drive - feel free to ask anything :D and let us know what you thought of the game !
Hi, u/trappedrorschach! Direct Drive is all written in Lua, except the vocal processing part, which is in C. If I'm not mistaken TDHS by Dave Bryant is the only 3rd party tool we're using. As already mentioned by u/katastatik, Awesome Playdate is a great place to start if you're looking for a solution for a common problem, or just want to find some inspiration. 1bit assets are very lightweight, so if something "heavy" can be pre-rendered - it's worth it IMO. Also one can pre-allocate memory and re-use it later to avoid memory "spikes". Hopefully this answers at least some of your questions. Cheers!
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I’m brand new to this but would like to learn how to code games for Playdate.🟡
All I know is from this awesome list of playdate development-related stuff, there are more beginner friendly resources: https://github.com/sayhiben/awesome-playdate
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Documentation for Pulp / PulpScript?
The forum (https://devforum.play.date/c/pulp/46) is likely your best bet, though there's also this github with some stuff in it https://github.com/sayhiben/awesome-playdate
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Dreamin of the day…
If you’re looking for resources to help learn Lua and about programming on Playdate check out these links: https://github.com/sayhiben/awesome-playdate
awesome-PICO-8
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-PICO-8.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.
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The Ultimate Link Guide for PICO-8
That said; why not just open PRs to Awesome PICO-8?
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Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters
There are alternatives these days:
https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8#clones
I would just add that $14.99 is still a very fair price and it enables the developer (lexaloffle) to work on other cool stuff like voxatron, picotron, etc.
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Where to start
- Awesome Pico-8 resources list: https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8
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Help for starting 🙂
Awesome Pico-8 is basically the most complete online collection of stuff you can find.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome-playdate and awesome-PICO-8 you can also consider the following projects:
magictools - :video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
TIC-80 - TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
NobleEngine - A li'l game engine for Playdate.
awesome-godot - A curated list of free/libre plugins, scripts and add-ons for Godot
awesome-ebitengine - A curated list of awesome Ebitengine frameworks, libraries and software
awesome-gamemaker - A curated list of awesome libraries, snippets, guides, and projects for GameMaker.