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Information for Playdate Developers.

Designing for Playdate

Advice on making your game accessible, pleasant to use, and at home on Playdate—from the UI to performance, and more.

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Playdate User Experience and Accessibility Check List

How to make a usable and accessibile Playdate game.

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Publishing your game in Catalog

Instructions and tips for a successful launch and presentation of your game in Playdate Catalog.

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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.

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Getting your games ready for Playdate OS 2.0

How to make sure your games run and perform well on Playdate OS 2.0

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Differences between the Playdate SDK and Pulp

The SDK is full-featured; Pulp is quick and simple.

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Distributing Playdate games

You can sell your games any way you'd like. Consider submitting them to the Playdate Catalog!

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Playdate devkit

There's no special devkit for Playdate; any Playdate can be used to develop games.

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Playdate SDK License

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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.

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Playdate Simulator

The Playdate Simulator is an application that mimics the Playdate device, and makes Playdate development quick and easy.

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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.

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