Strategies for Playdate

WHAT THE DECK IS THIS?

Strategies is a flash card app for the Playdate handheld!

But it's much more than that.

You can: give presentations, review tips and strategies, read poetry and haiku, check lists, learn languages, do quizes, and play interactive fiction games... 

...and it comes bundled with over 40 decks, which is over ~2,750 cards!

CONTROLS

• CRANK or L/R/U/D - change card
• A/SHAKE - random card
• B - toggle options

Lots of attention has been paid to feel and ease of use.

BUNDLED DECKS

• Creative Strategies
• Game Design & Development
• Learning & Life
• Luck & Fortune Telling
• Philosophy & Fun
• and an Interactive Fiction game
• ...over 40 decks!
• ...over 2,750 cards!

CUSTOM DECKS

You can easily add your own decks as text files. Content is easy:

• Title and author
• One line per card
• Font (a choice of 10 fonts)
• Text formatting
• (samples below)

INTERACTIVE FICTION

• Title card
• Static cards
• Interactive cards
• Definable controls (D-pad & A)
  
• Definable jumps/branches
• Enhanced text formatting compared to normal decks
• (Labels are coming soon)

QUIZ

• Question
• Answer (with answer or separately)
• Sound (played on question or answer)

POSSIBLE USES

• Keynote/PowerPoint for Playdate
• Present at your next conference (use the Playdate Mirror/Simulator apps)
  
• Speed read an e-book using the RSVP technique
• Find a way around a creative block
• Help you finish your game
• Become a better programmer
• Learn a little history
• Practice a new language
• An aid to relaxation
• Home to your next interactive fiction game
  
• Tabletop gaming D6/D20 dice (uses different random than deck mode)

NOTES

• It is recommended to use either crank or buttons and not both
• Make sure that a card isn't partially animated when trying to interact
• Font support for foreign languages is limited, but you can use your own font!

THANKS TO

• Ron Lent for the initial idea
• Pat Armstrong for suggesting Truisms
• Mac Vogelsang for his work on pd-options

CREDITS

Full list of credits for the bundled decks is in this dev blog.