Hey guys!
Recently I was working on a Playdate application that I finished the first iteration of, and I had a couple of questions:
1: How do I prepare my game to get put on my Playdate?
2: How do I make a thumbnail for my game that will display on the Playdate home screen?
I looked all over the internet and I could not find any good resources for this. Maybe Google just sucks lol.
Hi Nick,
1: If you mean how to put your game on the Playdate then make sure your Playdate is plugged in, then go to the Playdate icon in the bottom right of the Simulator and click on "Upload Game to Device" (or command+U)
2: When you upload your game to device there will be a default card that has the game name on a black background. To customize this check out the Designing for Playdate launcher section and the corresponding part in Inside Playdate
I hope that helps
After your pdxinfo is set up (see the links in Mathio's answer), you can simply zip your .pdx file and distribute the zip. People can then easily sideload the game via their online Playdate account.