This starter set is intended to allow use of the Fennel language on Playdate, including some helper library stuff for structuring games.
I built this on a Windows machine but I'm used to Macs so some of the build system is weird (for example, the Makefile relies on some conventions on my Windows machine)
Fennel is a Lua based lisp - https://fennel-lang.org/
The Playdate is a tiny handheld game system that can be easily programmed in Lua.
- Art created in Pixelorama for the game jam
- Bossa Nova cafe music from https://opengameart.org/content/bossa-nova
Assuming lua, fennel, pdc and playdate (simulator) are set up on your PATH, the Makefile should handle this with "make launch".
You can also build a pdx for upload to a playdate device with "make build".
To get raw lua file for processing manually, run "make compile", which creates a source/main.lua file with all fennel inside.
You'll need to install lua and fennel tooling separately. I used lua-rocks to install fennel as a binary and scoop to install lua, lua-rocks & make on Windows.
For LDtk macro support, you'll also need to install "lunajson" via lua-rocks (alternatively, you can use the SDK's json loader).
Install the Playdate SDK from the website: https://play.date/dev
pdc and playdate (alias for PlaydateSimulator) are expected to be available on the path.
Examples, assuming playdate sdk installed at C:\Users\David\Documents\PlaydateSDK
pdc.ps1 :
C:\Users\David\Documents\PlaydateSDK\bin\pdc.exe -I C:\Users\David\Documents\PlaydateSDK -k $args
playdate.ps1 :
C:\Users\David\Documents\PlaydateSDK\bin\PlaydateSimulator.exe $args