Creating a Scene Manager for the Playdate

Published: 19 September 2022
on channel: SquidGod
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Want to create different scenes in your Playdate game and make transitions between them? In this video, I show you how to set a scene manager using Lua for the Playdate SDK.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Simple scene management
2:00 - More advanced scenes
2:58 - Creating example scenes
4:32 - Creating a scene manager
6:42 - Using the scene manager
7:21 - Passing data between scenes
8:06 - Creating a wipe transition
10:59 - Disabling scene transitions during an active transition
11:32 - Create a wipe transition with an image
11:44 - Creating a fade transition
12:44 - Improving fade transition performance
13:22 - Drawbacks of this scene management approach
14:40 - Alternative #1
14:55 - Alternative #2
15:10 - Alternative #3

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