I’ve just joined. Digging and searching the forums, but so far haven’t found what I’m looking for.
Does anyone have tips on setting up a basic macOS development environment for Playdate development?
Apps and tools to use? I have access to various editors like BBEdit, Nova and Xcode.
Thank you.
David Martin
You pretty much just need some way of editing text, and the sdk. Maybe an editor extension.
I am using Xcode and make for Playdate development in C. I just followed the steps written in the official documentation (section “3.2 Xcode/Make”) and it works great:
If you plan on coding with the Lua SDK, I recommend using VSCode + any Lua plugin or Nova.
Panic’s Nova integrates nicely with the Playdate SDK. I’m a fan!
I have Nova. I’ll look for how to set up that environment. I’m honestly trying to avoid Microsoft products so no VSCode for me.
It’s been a while since I first set it up but I think you just find Playdate in the Extension Library (Extensions menu in the menu bar).