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  • Notes on deploying a PHP/Postgres app from Heroku to Upsun

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    With the impending and extremely frustrating slow murder of Heroku I found myself looking for alternative places to run our apps built on the extremely Heroku-friendly PHP8 + PosrgreSQL. The key requirements for me are: One that looks promising to me is Upsun, formerly platform.sh. Here’s what I learned from a few hours of cloning…

  • Playdate 11

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    Adding a game loop, score and lives to finish off the little demo game

  • Playdate 10

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    Adding a proper player character with multiple animation states

  • Playdate 9

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    Building some meaningful enemy AI for our little ghosts

  • Playdate 8

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    Iterating through arrays (tables) in Lua, and adding enemy characters to the maze

  • Playdate 7

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    Checking for open paths from our player’s location, so we know which way they can turn

  • Playdate 6

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    Moving my player in the maze, and detecting when it is on a dot

  • Playdate 5

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    Creating a proper level, designed as an array, and then drawing it as a tilemap

  • Playdate 4

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    Drawing a sprite on the tilemap background, and getting it moving

  • Playdate 3

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    Creating a tilemap and drawing it on screen