Fairy Garden

A Playdate game where you play a gardener trying to attract fairies to a variety of gardens. If you don't have a Playdate to sideload this game on, you can use the Playdate SDK (read below), or try the Love version.

Technically this is supposed to also be playable in a web browser, but it's got some performance issues at the moment that aren't present in the Love/Playdate versions. I may have introduced a performance regression in my Love2d Playdate  simulator trying to fix graphics offsets.

Controls:

• B button as secondary / cancel (mapped to "A" on keyboards)
  • On flowers this will water, and on weeds, you can pluck them
• A button as primary (mapped to "S" keyboard)
  • Confirms placement of items, or open menu to buy them.
  • Turns items that can point different directions
• Alternately - crank will do secondary actions on flowers

Note - If you're playing in the Simulator you can choose whether to use WSAD or arrows as arrow keys, and A button might be mapped to "S" or "." instead of "A".  

Web/Desktop Controls - "S" maps to the “A” button (to match simulator), arrows to move.

Credits and Submission Info

Submission for Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2024 (written in Fennel and transpiled to Lua). This was built on top of a Fennel+Playdate starter repo, code can be seen: https://github.com/therabidbanana/playdate-fennel-starter

Artwork made in Pixelorama, music loop from Open Game Art

Source code is also available on Github: https://github.com/therabidbanana/fairy-garden

Playing in SDK

1. You will need to extract the zip file to get a fairy-garden.pdx folder.  
2. Go here and install the SDK for Windows, Mac or Linux. 
3. After the installation, start the Simulator and click File -> Open and find the fairy-garden.pdx folder

Playing Love Version

1. Visit https://love2d.org/ to get and install the LOVE runner
2. After installing, use it to open fairy-garden.love

Playing Web

1. Click play.
2. Currently framerate is about 15fps, which is only barely playable. Try one of the above.