Extension Details

PlaydateKit Tasks provides Task integration with PlaydateKit, allowing you to quickly build and run apps and games for the Playdate console with PlaydateKit.

⚠️ Important
This is not an official extension developed and/or endorsed by Panic; It is a community-developed project.

Note
If you are looking for tools to assist with developing apps and games for the Playdate with either Lua or C, you'll want Panic's official extension instead, which you can find below.

Install Playdate extension ›

PlaydateKit Tasks provides tasks for:

• Building projects as a universal package (simulator + device), a simulator-only build, and/or a device-only build;
• Running projects through the Playdate Simulator
• Cleaning build folders

Requirements

PlaydateKit Tasks requires some additional tools to be installed on your Mac:

• Playdate SDK
• Swift toolchain v6.2 or later

You might also want to install these extensions, although they are not required for PlaydateKit Tasks to function:

• Icarus

Usage

To run PlaydateKit Tasks's Build action, add either Build Playdate Package or Playdate Simulator (PlaydateKit) to your tasks and then do any of the following:

• Click the Build 🔨 button in the project toolbar;
• Select the Project → Build menu item;
• Press Command-B; or
• Open the command palette and type build

Configuration

You can adjust the settings for these tasks in your workspace's settings by opening the Task dropdown and selecting Edit Task....

Contribute

PlaydateKit Tasks accepts pull request contributions from its GitHub repository mirror, which you can find at the link below. Please note that the source of truth is hosted on SkyVault.

GitHub Repository ›

If you'd like to report a bug or request a feature, you can do so on the extension's page on YouTrack:

Send feedback on YouTrack ›

License

PlaydateKit Tasks is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License. For more information on your rights, refer to LICENSE.md.

Version 0.1

Initial release

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Copyright 2025 Marquis Kurt

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