Getting Started with Playdate Game Development in 2023

In this video, I'll be going over what making games is like for the Playdate and how to setup a Playdate SDK game development environment on Windows using Visual Studio Code. This video is an update to a previous video I've made called "Getting Started with the Playdate SDK: Setup and Basics". == Setup Links == SDK Installation: https://play.date/dev/ Playdate Documentation: https://sdk.play.date/1.12.3/Inside%20Playdate.html Designing for Playdate: https://sdk.play.date/1.12.3/Designing%20for%20Playdate.html Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ VSCode Template Github: https://github.com/Whitebrim/VSCode-PlaydateTemplate == Resource Links == Pulp Tutorial Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlMPQvEA0GZMNW-l1vImDQtSMUDAcIuFa SDK Development Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlMPQvEA0GZPOuKJyhSr3Ra0vrpCiBTnb Beginner's Guide to Lua Book: https://squidgod.itch.io/lua-for-game-development Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/squidgoddev My Discord: https://discord.gg/kDM8RU4aFt Playdate Squad Discord: https://discord.gg/zFKagQ2 My Twitter: https://twitter.com/SquidGodDev Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:14 SDK Installation 4:24 Manual Code Compilation 6:38 Notes About Simulator 7:19 Installing VSCode 7:34 Installing Playdate Project Template 10:00 How the SDK Works 10:45 Writing a Demo 13:25 Uploading to Device 13:43 Next Steps and Resources