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Will you be making more videos about the play date ?

This is gaming?

My fellow Tamagotchi anime fans! Will you help me get Bandai Namco to dub the rest of the Tamagotchi anime series so far from episode 27 to episode 271 aka episode 50 of Go-Go Tamagotchi in English? Help a fellow Tamagotchi fan out.

It's cool but I'd just want it to be small in pocket. Nothing larger.

I think it's going to be very very expensive for collectors in 10-20 years

You did a job well enough to have me purchase your game. As an old-school fan of both Tamagotchi and Megaman Battle Network, this game hits the right spots. Your game making vlogs are very inspiring, and I would love to develop a game myself one day. Thank you for your content. ❤

Im pretty sure that "Buff Bunny" is a chinchilla to me. That's what it looks like

What is this game called, and where is it available?

Hey SquidGod! Would love to see you at some point participating in a game jam. If you'll ever considering this let us know ;)

Could you explain why the tilemap was affecting performance? I thought the whole point of tiles was that they are efficient! (Sorry my comment is a year late, haha)

Thats wild

How do you compile the source code automatically? i can't find the part where you explain it

love your content! btw what's the name of this game? it's gonna be so fun when my playdate arrives in about 2 weeks!

They just raised the price to $199 (as of May 2024). That means to get one sent to me in Europe (Sweden) it’ll cost $274 all in with the shipping and taxes. And that is, unfortunately, out of my budget.

Fantastic video! You guys killed!

Thanks for sharing! You’re my inspiration to pick up game dev!

The crank doesnt swing the raqcuet? 😢

If instead of setting an image/object as a stagnant image, I wanted it to become an animated thing (ex: A fireball travels with the bullet, and flickers different grays as it travels). How do I do that? Do I animate a gif and save gifs somehow? Also: How do I create new animations once a collision or action has occurred? (ex: The fireball hits the enemy. The enemy is knocked back a few pixels upon impact. Then a short 3 second fire animation that located on the enemy plays before disappearing.)

I spend a semester learning Python with one of the most needlessly-difficult (but extremely nice) professors....and in this video alone it's more or less covered everything in that class. From print, to Functions. It's crazy. Also: If you're watching this video and you're like "Ok, but when would I use this code and what good is it for me?" then I suggest watching an example game's code by SquidGod or anyone else. You'll see them directly set up the code and where certain things are used. Final tip: Generally for using Functions, there exists a "main function" which is the global operation. It's like where the program starts and goes through the motion of running. From there while naturally running, it'll stumble upon inputs that require certain other Functions to be used. Those "secondary functions" are more like new folders on your desktop, which contains other stuff it specifically does. What happens is something is generated and put in the secondary function. It goes through the secondary function, resulting in a new result, and spits it back out in to the main function to go do stuff. What you'll find is it's nicer to have a basic "main function," which contains dozens or hundreds of "secondary functions" and when you package your new game to run on the Playdate, it'll use all of the functions included to run the main game. Looking forward to the rest of this series!

Extreme thank you for this and the list. But question: You mention running in the emulator will "..not be representative of the actual Playdate's processing power..." aka you were referencing how the Playdate isn't as powerful as your native computer, and so a perfectly fine running game on a computer would run slow (or not at all) on the actual Playdate. My main question is: How do we gauge what is an "appropriate game" for running on the Playdate without actually putting it on the Playdate?

how did you get it so that vscode recognizes the code thats unique to playdate development? having autofill for those many corelibs functions looks nice to have

Is there a version of this, but with color like the Gameboy Color, or the early DS? I'm on the hunt to make my own Tamagotchi (while also learning how to program in Python), and I'm enjoying the Raspberry Pi (but there's so much to set up first). This seems like a fun alternative.

It suddenly hit me. Is that possible to make sth. like <robot wars> ? It would be fun!!

"Ships in a couple of days" *non-US people crying*

I've not listened to our point of view on the price yet, but I'd like to put forth my idea of its overall open source approach. Most consoles require you to pass some kind of barrier to entry. And if the barrier isn't created by the console creator and having access to the SDK, it may be difficult to install the game or burn it to some cartridge. Playdate development and distribution is as easy as it gets and you don't have to search the "black market" to trade and install games... No Homebrew hacks. I didn't realize the Teenage Engineering had their finger print on this device!

Wow... amazing creation on this little console! Inspirational!

Little late to the video, but since you were hesitant to add pet's dying as a reason to take care of them, later tamagotchi ran away.

Near 3:25 you define the initialize function as local then call it. Wouldn't it be more economical to create and call it anonymously? (function() --Do whatever... end)() But, I believe that if there are multiple scenes, I realize an initialize function need to be callable for each scene (such a function couldn't be anonymous). GREAT tutorial!!!

I didn't know this console existed! I was looking at development stuff and you fell into my list to watch. I've been struggling with deciding what I wanted to code for. This looks fun as hell and Lua is a simple pickup. There's another console out there, but for Game Boy like games, which can be created with GB Studio. I that PlayDate is black and white and that it can be coded with Lua. I think I'm going to pulldown the SDK and play with that while I decide to buy the PlayDate.

Damn I live near you lol

Thanks for all the great content! I've been using your videos to help learn Lua and create a small game. I noticed you used parallax on those columns. In your opinion what's the best way to achieve something like that. I've been using LDtk to make my levels and I cant figure out a good way to parse the background and offset it at a different rate. Thanks again for all the great info!

This was amazing to watch! Really great to see people helping one another in this space

Were you using GameMaker Studio for the demos (like the Jihanki one at 5:09?)

Awesome tutotial!

wtf is thiiiiissss

Really appreciate you showing how to add it all to the path! It's easier to use when it doesn't seem like, "magic"!

🙂 Promo>SM

Just in case it helps someone else; I was getting a PSSecurity error in VSCode while trying to run and build. To fix it I double clicked the build and run (simulator) file and unchecked “always ask”, reattempted and everything worked fine from there

Not bad. I am studying the playdate simulator to develop. THAT thing you did is something good. How you use Godot for playdate? Hoy did you export that. Playdate support Apk? I mean it's Android or something like that

How is this game called 0:29

SICK!

If it was sold at $149.99, it would have been perfect because I would only have to pay the VAT (21%), not the import fees (15%) which are addedon the retail price AND the VAT. BUT, if Panic signed a deal with an European importer (located in the EC), I will only have to pay the VAT on the import retail price.

How do you learn this so fast?

Sad I cannot use C++ for playdate sdk to do OOP with crazy performance

I hope you return to the pure deckbuilser idea someday!

that's awesome omg

I need a clear step by step tutorial on how to implement larger sprites in pulp... It seems like everyone using the online pulp editor is making the same game with 8x8 sprites

Didn't care about Vampire Survivors, clicked the video by accident, stayed for the dev stuff, bought the game just after the 20 min mark. Mission accomplished I guess :)

Would love to design a pinball game for this system.

i don't know how to code, my code dosen't work, my code is garbage, my story might be copying someone else, the mechanics might be copyrighted, the game could be a plagiarism of another game, my game won't work, you know there is a lot of factors that can be solve by knowing coding, you think is that easy? 5 years making the same game and restarting development because the game dosen't work is a big factor than "just realese it"