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  • We got a heat pump and it is very boring

    God knows I promised myself I wouldn’t write anything about us having fitted a heat pump. But having recently found that I can’t go online without seeing various strongly held opinions, such as: .. and while I know some of these are in bad faith I felt compelled to chuck my two cents out onto…

  • 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

  • Mac America Kittens Again

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    So here we are, I guess. Again. I have to admit that, over the past few years, I’d been hoping that I could file Make America Kittens Again under “weird stuff that happened in the past”, but given current events I’ve received a number of emails asking for an updated version – and in particular,…

  • 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