While Tony was out, I started playing with the
Playdate SDK. This is my first time using Lua. As someone who mostly writes Ruby and JavaScript, it feels fairly natural so far. And the SDK has a lot of nice convenience methods, like a built-in A* pathfinding algorithm and a way to display a native “Use the crank!” alert for games that require it.
There was a lot of reading documentation and experimenting with syntax, but here’s a quick peek at the progress I made: