Designing for Playdate
Advice on making your game accessible, pleasant to use, and at home on Playdate—from the UI to performance, and more.
Developer
Information for Playdate Developers.
Playdate User Experience and Accessibility Check List
How to make a usable and accessibile Playdate game.
Publishing your game in Catalog
Instructions and tips for a successful launch and presentation of your game in Playdate Catalog.
Editing Pulp game metadata using the Playdate SDK
Using the Playdate SDK to modify your Pulp-created game and add some fun effects to it.
Getting your games ready for Playdate OS 2.0
How to make sure your games run and perform well on Playdate OS 2.0
Differences between the Playdate SDK and Pulp
The SDK is full-featured; Pulp is quick and simple.
Distributing Playdate games
You can sell your games any way you'd like. Consider submitting them to the Playdate Catalog!
Playdate devkit
There's no special devkit for Playdate; any Playdate can be used to develop games.
Playdate SDK License
Catalog link badges
As a Catalog game developer, you may wish to use Playdate branding. Here are the Catalog badge graphics to place on your website and elsewhere when you promote your game.
Playdate Simulator
The Playdate Simulator is an application that mimics the Playdate device, and makes Playdate development quick and easy.
Playdate link badges
As a game developer, you may wish to use Playdate branding. Here are the badge graphics to place on your website and elsewhere when you promote your game.