Crank-It! for Playdate

A game inspired by Bop-It for the Playdate. Written entirely in Lua.

Get started

Basically follow the official guide.

1. Install the SDK
2. cd into this folder
3. pdc Source crank-it.pdx to compile
4. Launch the Playdate Simulator app included in the SDK and open the compiled .pdx file
5. Use Sideloading

For VSCode I recommend the Playdate Debug extension, which enables running and full-featured debugging right in VSCode with the press of a button (available in the extension store).

License

See LICENSE.txt

TL;DR

You may use the source-code and assets for your personal (or even commercial!) projects!
Just make sure to credit me and the other original authors!
Please don't release the work as-is in your own name, that would be weird.

Useful stuff in here (maybe)

All of these should work as a single-file drop-in (except for the font, which is two files), since they don't have dependencies other than the SDK.

• The Party font: Comic Sans-esque font used in the game (also with bad kerning! although I tried my best, until I ran out of patience)
• transition.lua: Animation when switching from one scene to another with a diagonal swipe.
• particles.lua: Dynamic physics-influenced, image-based particles based on the SDK's Sprite system. Particles can be added with one line of code. Physics constants can be easily configured.
• vec3d.lua: 3D Vector math functions length, normalize and dotProduct (since the SDK only provides 2D versions).