I'm hoping to try porting frotz to the playdate, and for something so heavily keyboard focused the built in keyboard isn't going to cut it. With this in mind I started making a more ergonomic text entry system, heavily inspired by the keyboard used in the GBA frotz port. It behaves like a chorded keyboard with multiple button presses combining to type one letter. A and B select the active section of the keyboard, and then the arrow keys work to select a letter within that section. You can also use the arrow keys to move the cursor within the text field to go back and edit a line. I have it all working well enough already, but there's some further polishing I want to do to make it feel better.
Bonus points if anyone knows what game this is the opening to.
Once I get things tuned up to my liking I'll probably put it up on GitHub.