Arrow Demo

Created for RayJam2025
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A simple, 360 arcade shoot-em-up made for the Playdate.

My first attempt at Playdate development, as well as working with Lua in general. Not incredibly flashy, but considering I had to learn everything as I went, I'm reasonably happy with it.

Known problems / Areas of improvement:

• Polish: Would of liked to add some sfx, visual effects, and a more detailed background at the very least, but time / schedule didn't allow.
• Balance: Aiming can be a little fiddly due to projectile size, and enemies from the top & bottom of the screen can be unfairly surprising at times.
• General content: If this were to be made into a full game, Id want to add more enemy types, multiple playable characters / classes, and an endless / high score mode.

Either way, I hope you give it a try, and I hope you enjoy whats there! If anything breaks (Which is incredibly likely...), please let me know. Thanks!

Special thanks to:

• SquidGod's incredible tutorial series. Many of his videos and examples were used over the course of the project.
• Crabaret's Itch.io cover image template. 
• The Playdate Dev forums. While I didn't ask and questions directly, they were a great source of information.