For the coders…

• Playdate SDK

  All you need: Lua and C APIs, docs, as well as a Simulator for local development, with profiling and more.

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• Playdate Development Documentation

  The official reference documentation for programming Playdate games.

  • Inside Playdate (Basics of Playdate + Lua APIs)
  • Inside Playdate with C (C language APIs)
  • Designing for Playdate (Best practices for Playdate games)

• Useful Links

  SDK Tutorials, editors, importable libraries, engines, templates, bindings, and more helpful resources from our developer community—as well as tools made by Panic.

  • SDK Tool Links

• Dev Forum

  The place to talk to other Playdate developers about your game and see theirs. Post your progress, or questions about best practices and cool tricks.

  • Dev Forum
  • SDK bug reports

For everybody else…

• pulp

  Web-based game editor for Playdate. Pixel art, chiptune music, and simple scripting built right in. It's fun!

  • TRY PULP NOW
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• Pulp Links

  Pulp-oriented help videos, tutorials, and how-to's to help you learn Pulp and build something you didn't think was possible.

  • Pulp Tool Links

• Pulp Forum

  Ask questions about your Pulp game and share code tips with other developers.

  • Pulp Forum
  • Pulp bug reports

Cool info for all

• Playdate Mirror

  A desktop app that mirrors the screen of your connected Playdate in real time. Perfect for capturing Playdate video so you can stream it or record it locally.

  • Download Mirror

• Link badges

  Playdate link badges for developers. Use these when linking to your game if you'd like to show that it's a Playdate title.

  • Link badges

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