Did you know you can list all toyboxes available in the toystore by typing:

toybox store content

and then get some info on a particular toybox with:

toybox store info <toybox_name>

or go directly to the toybox's repo with:

toybox store repo <toybox_name>

🌈 Well…now you do! 🌈

Find out more about toybox.py at: didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py

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pdDialogue by @pizzafuel and @GammaGames is a ready to use dialogue system toybox for the @playdate

Use `toybox add` to easily add it to your game and give it a spin.

Repo is at https://github.com/PizzaFuel/pdDialogue

Find out more about toybox.py at: https://didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py

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options by @vogelscript is a simple to use and portable options class for the Playdate. Originally developed by @gingerbeardman and used in many games now.

Install easily with:
toybox add options
toybox update

Repo is at https://github.com/macvogelsang/pd-options

Find out more about toybox.py at: https://didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py

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roomy is a scene management library for the Playdate. You can easily install it in your project using toybox.py.

Repo is at https://github.com/RobertCurry0216/roomy-playdate

Find out more about toybox.py at: https://didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py

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pp-lib is is a comprehensive toybox by Robert Curry that simplifies the process of creating platformer games for the #Playdate. You can easily install it in your project using toybox.py.

Repo is at https://github.com/RobertCurry0216/pp-lib

Find out more about toybox.py at: https://didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py

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Playdate SDK v1.13.6 & 1.13.7 are out 🎉

You can also sign up to gain access to the 2.0beta which has some important changes for peeps developing in C. Long story short you will soon need to release your app with 2.0 (not yet though) or it will break on future hardware.

https://sdk.play.date/changelog/

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With the news that @playdate group 4 will finally start shipping soon, I've spent the weekend porting DCSquares to the #PlaydateSDK.

DCSquares was originally released as a #homebrew game for the SEGA Dreamcast in 2004, and has been ported to various other platforms over the past 20 years.

Here's a sneak peek of a very early prototype running on the Playdate simulator. The original game relies heavily on colors, so adapting it to a monochrome display was quite a challenge!

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Thanks to all the hard work of the @playdate peeps at @panic (looking at you @dave ), as of version 1.13.5 of the SDK you can now use my package manager toybox.py on Windows too! 🎉

https://devforum.play.date/t/toybox-py-now-works-on-windows/11268

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Have you been procrastinating on doing some UI work for your #Playdate game? 😆

Well, @potch is here to the rescue with his super cool UI toybox named ‘playout’. Everything you need, all in one place…

Repo is at: https://github.com/potch/playout

Find out more about toybox.py at: https://didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py/

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Eben Eliason (not sure if he is on 🐘) just released Acetate as a toybox.

This is a a visual debugging suite for the Playdate Simulator which greatly improves on the built-in functionality for debug drawing.

Repo is at: https://github.com/ebeneliason/acetate

Find out more about toybox.py at: toyboxpy.io

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🧸#ToyboxPY v1.2.3 is out! 🎉

- Fixed toybox.py not exiting with the correct error code in some cases.
- Fixed links to some Github repos that were moved.
- Fixed issue where toybox.py would not notify the user when no Boxfile was present in the current folder. Thanks Eben Eliason.
- Fixed links to the toystore in its new location on Github.

Go simplify your Playdate development at https://didier.malenfant.net/toybox.py/

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Switch from Lua to C some time ago. While I love the simplicity of Lua, I can't live without Intellisense, auto-complete, and debugging on Visual Studio when developing for #Playdate on Windows. I also don't have to worry about performance all the time. However, I still hope Panic would officially add C++ support in #PlaydateSDK. It would vastly reduce development time. If you read this far, here's a full-level playthrough of Tango in its 3rd day of development. 👇

I love how much this little #Playdate boost creativity and collaboration.

Good example with this video explaining the réalisation of the great game Core Fault.

https://youtu.be/WIUOk2YIoWk

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🧸#ToyboxPY v1.2.1 is out! 🎉

- Added a nifty —debug option to help diagnose things remotely.
- Fixed issue when a toybox repo had a tag that wasn’t a valid version number. Thanks @GammaGames !

Go simplify your Playdate development at https://toyboxpy.io

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Released a little patch v1.1.3 update for #ToyboxPY.

You can update with ‘pip install toyboxpy --upgrade’.

https://toyboxpy.io/2023/02/15/1.1.3/

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Brand new toybox from @PossiblyAxolotl introducing #pdParticles !

Simple library to add some spark and explosions (amongst other things) to your projects.

Repo is at: https://github.com/PossiblyAxolotl/pdParticles

Find out more about toybox.py at: https://toyboxpy.io

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If you’re using the #PlaydateSDK 1.13 and you’re using #ToyboxPY you can now use my Lua/C interop array class (found in the pdbase toybox) to store and return Lua objects too (from Lua, C or both!).

Use ‘toybox update’ to get the latest version of the lib.

If you’re not using toybox, you really should 😜

https://toyboxpy.II

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Could you make a living out of developing #Playdate games?

@pawprints wrote few days ago an interesting article about the sales figures of his excellent game #Swish on itch.io

https://pawprints.itch.io/skwish-playdate/devlog/479222/releasing-my-sales-figures

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Waiting to receive my #PlayDate by playing Ghosts 'n Goblins mini game on my modded Neogeo Pocket Crystal. This mini game is hidden in the excellent SNK vs. Capcom Match of The Millennium. 👇

What are your favorite games?

#neogeo #SNK #NGPC #MoTM #playdatedev #playdatesdk #vintage #retrogaming #snk #capcom #streetfighters

Very first episode of TYM #Playdate! Catalog rumors and Airport security madness.

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https://youtu.be/LfpBSIy7-uY