Playdate Blackbox Puzzles

Building some Black Box Puzzles for Panic's Playdate

Black Box Puzzles are a creation of James Lyndsay

Notes

• pdc -k <input>
• Sublime build system: "cmd": ["pdc", "-k", "$folder"]
• pdc -k source pbbp.pdx
• pdc -k -I source tests pbbp-tests.pdx requires copy of assets into tests folder

Playdate SDK

• playdate.getButtonState() is cool but uses bitmasks

Used in this repo

• Playdate SDK
• Mozart NBP Font by total FontGeek DTF, Ltd.

Testing

• followed instructions mentioned below
• requires building the tests, then running them in the simulator
• not sure what testOutputFilename does
• ToDo: figure out how to get fonts and images into tests
• Makefile: cp with -u (update, UPDATE={all,none,older(default)} ) or -n (no-clobber, i.e. no overwrites)

linting

• make lint runs luacheck on ./source
• does require luacheck dev version for now: luarocks install --server=https://luarocks.org/dev luacheck dev-1
• https://github.com/lunarmodules/luacheck
• https://devforum.play.date/t/playdate-sdk-support-for-luacheck/6887

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Puzzle ideas

• puzzle that uses playdate.buttonIsPressed(button)

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Useful links

Playdate SDK

• https://play.date/dev/
• https://play.date/dev/links/
• https://sdk.play.date/2.0.3/Inside%20Playdate.html

Unit testing with the Playdate SDK

• https://devforum.play.date/t/unit-testing-game-lib/2083

Testing Lua

• https://martin-fieber.de/blog/how-to-test-your-lua/
• https://github.com/mockagne/mockagne
• https://github.com/henry4k/lua-mock

Lua

• https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/

Pixel art

• Gimp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAaoh49yf5A

Fonts

• font conversion: https://kaasiand.cool/tophat/
• load fonts without file extention: gfx.font.new("fonts/JetBrainsMono-Medium-20")

Makefile

• https://makefiletutorial.com/