PulpScript: A Beginner's Guide 

Agreed. The quality of this video is so impressive considering how new pulp is. I'd love to see more!

I'm glad it was helpful!

Wow high praise - thanks!

Thanks - Guess I'll have to make a Discord server now. Keep an eye out for that in the next few weeks.

No problem - thanks for watching

You can definitely create interesting narrative games in Pulp, but personally I feel that the effort to try and mold Pulp to have unique and interesting mechanics and polish to make it really stand out would be actually easier to do in Lua using the Playdate SDK when it becomes available. Pulp is a good starting point to learn basic programming and dip your toes into it, but you will definitely reach a cliff in the complexity required to hack Pulp into having more modern features that come easily in a full featured programming language like Lua. I will be making tutorials for the Playdate SDK when it comes out so if you feel like you have to develop in Pulp because you don't know that much programming I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Hi Floyd - You can check out my other video on making an adventure game: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p4eLcP3hgJc.html. I cover something similar to this with a hazard bouncing back and forth between walls. You can do the same thing or tweak the code to limit the distance the sprite moves.

No, you'll have to achieve that with some combination of conditionals (e.g. >=,

Currently there's no store, but you can sideload any games onto the Playdate, so you can easily upload your Playdate game to a platform like itch.io and sell your game from there. For an example, see the game Bloom that's for sale right now. Panic is also currently working on something called catalog that integrates with the Playdate to buy games directly.

Usually, I find the issues come down to either capitalization errors and small typos that are hard to catch. Pulpscript is case-sensitive, so make sure the casing are matching in not just the code, but also the sprite/tile names

Like some sort of health pickup? You can keep the conditional the same in that case, but make the health pack an Item instead, and then have the item respond to the 'collect' event as opposed to the 'interact' event. Then, at the end, do swap "white" to delete the health pack. That way when the player walks over the health pack, it disappears and you get one health.

I'll be coming out with a complete guide to make an adventure game from start to finish next Monday. I think you might be interested in that, so subscribe to not miss it.

Tried making one in Pulp before. It's not really designed for that so it's pretty tricky. I would probably recommend using the SDK instead for a platformer.

Yup. You can check the event.aa or event.ra values to get where the crank is, and there's also the 'crank' event that fires whenever the crank is moved.

Definitely have seen some floating around in development! There was one that crowd sourced different games in a game jam called "Mobware Mini game jam" that looked pretty cool.

I'll make one when I hit 100 subs - I think that's a good milestone. See you there ;)

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