(WIP) Playdate: Battle of the Bands

Day 1:

• Recommend this vscode extension + these type definitions (thanks to @notpeter)

• Made a title screen!

• If this ever gets released I’d like 0 AI generated assets, but wow was OpenAI helpful to make title art. Glad it exists for prototyping.
• “Generate an image in the style of gameboy art”

• Made an animation by creating an animator, and moving the image on each sprite update function, by using the animator value as an offset

• Created a solution for scene management using meta-programming to call a sceen’s update function using global state. Commit

• I really don’t know much about lua. Waiting till I run into problems that require me to step back and do some reading.
• What is a table? Is that just a map? idk.

Day 2

• Refactored all the animations to use geometry, instead of leaning on currentValue() so much. Made making animation adjustments / writing new animation ideas so much easier, really happy with this approach.
• Animations are generated relative to a sprites position - Commit

• Moved a lot of update logic into their relative sprites, leaving each scene’s update method pretty empty for the moment.

• Learned more about drawing sprites vs generating them from an image.

• Added a sequencer, which is working great to draw a timed beat indication! But it doesn’t make sound yet. Stuck on that.

Day 3

• If a sequence is setup to loop infinitely, it’s provided “finishCallback” isn’t called until the sequence is stopped.

Day 4:

• If you switch your audio output while the playdate simulator is open, restart the simulator! Spent a while trying to hear sound, and it wasn’t my codes fault.

• You can load adpcm audio into a sample, just use :decompress (docs) and know it will take up ~4x more memory than the adpcm file.