Pocket Pets!

Source code for my Playdate game "Pocket Pets!", a Tamagotchi inspired virtual pet game. Tend to your garden, card for your pet's hunger/happiness, play mini games like a fishing mini game and a Mega Man Battle Network inspired game, and more! You can find the game on Itch IO.

Project Structure

• scripts/
  • battle/
    • enemies/
      • baseEnemy.lua - The base enemy class that allows me to easily create different enemies by extending it
    • battleScene.lua - The scene for the grid battler mini-game
    • playerAttackSprite.lua - A small helper sprite that displays the slashing attack animation
    • warningIcon.lua - A small helper sprite that displays the warning icon
  • fishing/
    • fishingPet.lua - The code for your pet walking around in the fishing mini-game
    • fishingScene.lua - The scene for the fishing mini-game
  • garden/
    • gardenDataDisplay.lua - UI for the garden info at the top of the scene
    • gardenGrid.lua - Draws the actual garden grid, seeds, and plants
    • gardenScene.lua - The scene for the garden
    • seedList.lua - Handles the seed list on the side
  • home/
    • buttons/
      • button.lua - The base button class to handle the buttons
    • food/
      • foodList.lua - Handles the list drawing for the food - it's basically the same as seedList.lua and gameList.lua
    • games/
      • gameList.lua - Handles the list for the available mini-games - it's basically the same as seedList.lua and foodList.lua
    • pets/
      • pet.lua - The base pet class that handles drawing the pet on the home screen and having them wander around - all the other pet files aren't actually used at all, so they should've been deleted
    • sky/
      • cloudBanner.lua - Old code that handled moving clouds - not used anymore
      • clouds.lua - Also not used and should've been deleted
      • sky.lua - Just draws the night sky
      • sun.lua - Just handles drawing the sun or moon depending on the time of day
    • homeButtons.lua - Handles the buttons on the home scene
    • homeScene.lua - The scene for the main home screen
    • statsUI.lua - Handles the pet stats on the top left
  • libraries/
    • AnimatedSprite.lua - A library from Whitebrim that handles the animations for the pet in the home screen
    • Sequence.lua - A library from Nic Magnier that let's you string together animations - I just used it for the pet hatching scene
    • Signal.lua - A library from Dustin Mierau that allows you to send signals throughout your game that I used for miscellaneous data transfer
    • Utilities.lua - A library of utility functions that I'm building up - it only has one function in it right now...
  • manual/
    • manualScene.lua - The scene that handles drawing the QR code that links to the manual
  • petHatch/
    • petHatchScene.lua - The scene that handles hatching a new pet
  • petList/
    • petListScene.lua - The scene where you can see what pets you have and can switch them out
  • shop/
    • shopScene.lua - The vending machine shop scene
  • wish/
    • wishScene.lua - The daily wish scene
  • dataStore.lua - Contains all the data that the game stores and handles saving and loading that data
  • globals.lua - A couple global functions (checking for daytime and also getting the corresponding pet image tables)
  • sceneManager.lua - Manages switching between scenes

License

All code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license, with the exception of Signal.lua by Dustin Mierau.