David Senate

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Technology, infrastructure and thoughtfully designed systems.

Currently rebuilding Airborne! for Playdate.

Photography, retro computing, operational resilience and quiet internet corners.

Swiss-based.

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#Nutanix .Next on tour #lausanne

Open-sourcing a few reusable Play date #Lua gameplay systems from #Airborne! PD

Spent some time extracting and cleaning up a few reusable Lua #snippets from Airborne! PD for Playdate.

Mostly focused on:

  • animated sprite mechanics
  • object pooling
  • data-driven wave systems
  • per-frame sprite accounting
  • datastore persistence
  • lightweight rendering tricks
  • achievement persistence system

These are small engineering notes and reusable gameplay patterns developed while building a performance-conscious Playdate project on constrained hardware.

Thought some of them might help newer #Playdate #developers getting started with optimization and gameplay systems.

Public repo:

github.com/DaveLeonard/airborne-public

Just wondering what will happens in 10+ years when people who still know how to run serious on-prem infrastructure are gone.

Who you gonna call when things break badly at 2am?

Aren't we just trading operational knowledge for conenience?

Maybe it's just fine and I don't know it yet.

#Infrastructure #OnPrem #HybridCloud #Resilience

Listening to Pearl Jam in highest quality

"The Playdate might be more of a Nintendo console than Nintendo’s own console.

…and at half the price 😉

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-hands-on/

If you can’t get a Switch 2, now might be the time to get a Playdate

Does the Switch 2's price tag have you down? Then it might be time to grab a Playdate.

Digital Trends

🪩 "The crank is responsive and quickly becomes second nature, and the expanding circle that shows you how close you are to your next level-up gives the whole thing a lovely newsprint vibe."

It really is a perfectly tuned game!

https://www.eurogamer.net/fulcrum-defender-review

Fulcrum Defender review

The makers of FTL and Into the Breach offer another ingenious slice of finely calibrated systems, and this time it's all about that arcade feeling.

Eurogamer.net

⏳ We're half way through Week 1 of Season Two. With all the wonderful reviews for this week's games, it's worth remembering that there are TEN MORE GAMES TO COME 🙀

🕑 https://play.date/s2

💥 Season Two is OUT NOW! Grab your Playdate and check out the games premiering today. LET'S DO THIS

(You can get S2 here: https://play.date/s2)