Tiny Hadron Collider
A downloadable game
Tiny Hadron Collider is a simple idler for the PlayDate in which you work to generate as many muons as possible by manually cranking the particle accelerator as well as buying automated upgrades.
This was a introductory exploration into both Lua programming as well as the PlayDate SDK.
How To Play
On the PlayDate
Download the zip, and follow the instructions here to sideload the game onto your PlayDate console
On Windows/Mac
Download the zip file, unzip it, and open the TinyHadronColliderV2.pdx directory using the PlayDate Simulator, available for free in the PlayDate SDK
Get The Source
All the source for Tiny Hadron Collider is available on my GitHub, along with instructions on how to build and modify the code. Feel free to re-use any of the code in your own projects!
Download
Development log
- Fixed memory issues when running on deviceJul 24, 2022
Comments
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I got to the point of buying a second detector and my playdate ran out of memory! It was getting real slow until then, seems like some optimization would be in order.
Hi, thanks so much for playing! I just uploaded a new build that refactored a lot of the sprite management and should have fixed the out of memory crash.
Sweet! It looks like the version number is the same so the sideload website update doesn't work, but I'll load it over usb tomorrow 🙂
I'm also unable to sideload via the website