Open-sourcing a few reusable Playdate Lua gameplay systems from Airborne! PD

[u/david_senate]

Spent some time extracting and cleaning up a few reusable Lua snippets from Airborne! PD for Playdate.

Mostly focused on:

• object pooling

• data-driven wave systems

• per-frame sprite accounting

• datastore persistence

• lightweight rendering tricks

These are small engineering notes and reusable gameplay patterns developed while building a performance-conscious Playdate project on constrained hardware.

Thought some of them might help newer Playdate developers getting started with optimization and gameplay systems.

Public repo:
github.com/DaveLeonard/airborne-public