I wanna lick this so bad lol

I haven’t posted much about #Alidade since the postmortem, but I’m already at work on some new updates! Some of this requires custom UI that #SwiftUI doesn’t have out of the box, so I’ve made a small demo app that lets me prototype these components more easily.

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Thanks to the help of a few Playdate friends, I was able to get the core map navigation experience in #Alidade significantly improved! It now uses a #MapKit view with custom tile overlays. Feels wrong, yet so right lol

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More work on the #WhatTheTaiji editor! I've implemented more tools, and now you can undo/redo most actions. The ribbon is also now defined with a simple KDL-based file, making it easy for me to add or change the controls.

I've also landed on a name for this app: #Grids!

#gamedev #Playdate #Love2D

More work on the #WhatTheTaiji editor! The new ribbon is a work in progress element that contains all the controls for creating and editing puzzles. Currently, you can just flip tiles and erase symbols, but I'll be adding more functionality and controls down the line.

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Tiles can also be clicked on, too, to perform actions. For now, it just flips the tile, but later it should support placing symbols or locking tiles in place.

I can load files (even drag + drop) in the #WhatTheTaiji editor (menu option TBA), and they all render as intended.

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Tutorials (and puzzle sets) in #WhatTheTaiji now allow you to go back, and you get a nice control cheat sheet when you go to the menu in-puzzle. It's a wee finicky in the Simulator, but it works decently on device.

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Shakies! Shoutout to @rae.wtf for helping me get this working.

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