The PICO-8 is a wild and wonderful world. It’s hard to know where to begin with it until you actually experiment with it yourself. It’s a “software” console, with it’s own development environment which is highly restricted to, once again, force limitations on you. If you know the game Celeste this was originally written for…
A bit of a change of direction today. As part of my work I use stuff like node but I’ve just picked up bits and bobs along the way. So today I’m going to work through the book The Complete Developer and learn it all a bit more formally. This also helps with some new…
In which I argue with ChatGPT
A while ago I wrote a small Norns app which just fulfilled a particular requirement for me and was very simple. I can’t even remember what it was now! But having studied Lua for the last week I am hoping to relieve the world of Norns development and see if it makes more sense (whereas…
In the last post, we made a new sprite using the SDK’s sprite abilities. In this post, let’s make our cat sprite in the same way. This is very very simple. Here’s the code for our cat sprite. This is still not right, we should be using the SDK animation system but let’s do that…
In which I learn I can’t read and more about Lua classes
First of all, get some sprites. As I’m currently fixated with cats I bought from itch.io this set as a starting point https://seethingswarm.itch.io/catset. I don’t know why I am fixated with cats, I am the Philosophical Dog after all. But anyway. Let’s choose some sprites. Running is good. We need to convert them to 1…
As found by my friend and colleague James name = fields.Char(compute=”_compute_name”, search=”_search_sage_name”)def _search_sage_name(self, operator, value): return [‘|’, (‘code’, operator, value), (‘description’, operator, value)]
We all have to start somewhere. This is ridiculously easy but doing something ‘easy’ gives you a little buzz and gets you moving on. During this process I learnt a little more about how to structure a project and what images you want to work with. I also learnt that the Playdate/Lua is quite happy…
