PulpScript: A Beginner's Guide

[@splashmob]

as someone entirely new to programming, this was helpful! i've been working on a small thing in pulp over the last few days and this video helped me realise some stuff i wasn't sure about. it'd be cool to see more videos for Pulp, if you have any ideas!

[@GuvBubbs]

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

[@LolaliciousSmiley]

This is really phenomenal. I was looking for a small "haven't coded a single line before" pulpscript video, but this is so much more than I could have hoped for.

[@SquidGodDev]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@SquidGodDev]

Not one of my "Game in 1 Week" videos this week, but I wanted to get this tutorial out to help out new developers using this tool since it just came out.

[@SelenaBarari]

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[@RandomnessMusician]

Congrats on 100!

[@SquidGodDev]

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

[@kevinmakesgames]

This is such a great primer for new programmers, but you've got a lot of valuable bits of information for experienced programmers too! Thanks for making this!

[@justinbrown3920]

Enjoyed this video. Hope to see more Playdate content!

[@NALTOdeluxe]

Thanks for this. As a Panic Fanatic I’m totally buying a Playdate ASAP. Already playing with Pulp and I hope to eventually make some stuff for myself and the community.

[@matteaparker4165]

Awesome video! Super helpful thanks!!

[@carbra6199]

High Quality, thanks!

[@marafolse8347]

Thank you sm!

[@SquidGodDev]

No problem - thanks for watching

[@FlavioEscribano]

Thanks a lot for the video. One of the best I've ever seen about script programming 👏

[@SquidGodDev]

Wow high praise - thanks!

[@jeremymeyerofficial]

what a fantastic video! thank you so much

[@soapyshoes]

Thanks my man, this is a great video. I've done some stuff in gamemaker studio 2, but Pulp intrigues me because it's web based, and I can goof around on it at work in between tasks. Thanks again!

[@92keys524]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@yorgle]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@michawojciechowski1175]

Thanks for the video! What do you think about Pulp limitations? Will it be possible to create interesting narrative games in it?

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@ZoomGameClips]

I'd love to use this since it's more visual than sdk, but i want to use lua!

[@floydhayes]

Nice! Thank you. I'm wondering how I can have an alien (sprite) move back and forth - I thought "draw" would help but I can't figure out (totally new to this)

[@SquidGodDev]

Hi Floyd - You can check out my other video on making an adventure game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmXIfZaGaM2agMU. 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.

[@HammerSpam]

dumb question, but can pulp do logical operators? like OR, AND, XOR, NOT etc? I can't seem to figure out how logic is done in pulp

[@SquidGodDev]

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

[@skye7690]

Yes I've programmed games before. So is there an indy model to pay creators who create and publish games on the 'store'?

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@mwatson3302]

I'm having trouble with the health function, I got as far as displaying health, but the sprites I make aren't affecting player health even though I am doing "on bump do health++ or health--"

[@SquidGodDev]

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

[@rafaelmasse3725]

Great tuttorial ! It helps me lot !!! Hope you will do more like this on PLayDate Pulp in futur :)

[@sand9639]

Thank you for the video, but what if you want the health pack to only give you one life and no more but you still want a max 15 lives?

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@cooljrgaming9729]

Is it possible to make a platformer?

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@crivera972]

In Pulp, are you able to utilize the crank?

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@meida_oficial]

The Lua Power

[@BloodyDeadCat]

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[@davisstreetstudios8681]

I want to see a WarioWare based game on this console!

[@SquidGodDev]

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.

[@Ratboycure]

Sweetcool

[@da4dam416]

Nice! I love ur vids, can u make a discord server?

[@SquidGodDev]

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

[@da4dam416]

@@SquidGodDev see ya!

[@RandomnessMusician]

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