Writing a book on coding games for Playdate with Lua

[brett (Brett Chalupa)]

I went on a little side quest before proofreading the book to make a larger JRPG prototype that's free and open source. That way readers of the book (and others) can see what a larger JRPG project could look like.

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1-Bit Fantasy: A public domain JRPG prototype

I set out on a little quest: could I make a game like Final Fantasy Legend or Dragon Quest in 2 weeks? Two weeks later, here's what I've got: 1-Bit Fantasy: [1-Bit Fantasy Combat] It's a prototype made with Lua. After I finished the first draft of my Playdate book, I wanted to expand upon the final project to make a bigger turn-based RPG. And then share the source for those who might want to make their own JRPG. You can download 1-Bit Fantasy on itch: And download the source on GitHub (it…

Or just download the game:

1-Bit Fantasy by Brett Chalupa

And get the source:

GitHub - brettchalupa/1_bit_fantasy: Public domain JRPG prototype for Playdate

I took the last two chapters of the book and expanded them to have more systems and complexity. It was a lot of fun to just make something without having to write in depth about it. It felt freeing. I'll likely record a video walking through the source and explaining it for those who want to make use of it.