Happy to hear it! I'd been meaning to reach out to you anyway to say thank you for the excellent video tutorials, and I figured this was a nice way to say thanks.
I've got a few more videos to follow along with, the Playdate SDK doc to read through, and then I plan to poke through the source code of some of your games. After that, I think I'll be ready to pick a not-too-ambitious idea and try making a game!
Full disclosure - I've never been interested in game design before getting a Playdate, but something about the little hardware and it's logical and physical constraints really got my creative juices running. I started looking into development tutorials, and SquidGod has been setting the bar with his content.
I stumbled across this book decided to give it a go. I will say that in over 12 years of bouncing off of trying to learn coding in the past (I'm in IT by trade), this was the FIRST coding resource that I read completely, cover to cover. The concepts are all nicely laid out, the exercises are excellent, and I can see it being a document I refer back to over and over as I get my feet wet in game development.
This was the first coding book I'm seen in a long time specifically geared towards beginners, and it was so nice to read through something that didn't treat the reader like they already had fundamental knowledge to be usable.
SquidGod - you should be proud of all the resources you've put out for folks like me!
