The Playdate's free game design tool Pulp has been detailed
More details have been revealed about Pulp, the free in-browser game development tool for the upcoming crankable handheld console, the Playdate.
Designer at Panic, the company behind the Playdate, Neven Mrgan wrote an article for Game Developer and said Pulp is “a game maker where you don’t have to write any code at all; unless you’d like to, in which case there’s also a scripting language called PulpScript.”
“Pulp lives right in your browser,” Mrgan added. “So you could use it on a MacBook, a desktop PC, a Chromebook, or a tablet.” The core goal of Pulp is to streamline and simplify how games are made, making them more accessible.
Pulp games can even be downloaded and played on the Playdate as well, even though the browser functionality of Pulp means that the handheld isn’t needed to try and develop a game. The game can be saved and transferred to the Playdate either via a USB or the users’ Playdate account.
A game is made in Pulp with little to no coding, as users can just connect blocks (or rooms), click on pixels, and enter dialogue into objects. PulpScript does allow for some coding, but the aim is for it to be as easy to use as the user desires.
