Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This video is made for complete beginners to the concept of object oriented programming (OOP). I go over what object oriented programming is, core concepts that make it up, as well as a simple example of coding with object oriented programming - all in this jam packed, 13 minute tutorial for the Playdate SDK using the Lua programming language.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Encapsulation
1:47 - Abstraction
3:25 - Inheritance
4:36 - Polymorphism
5:23 - OOP Concept Recap
6:00 - Code Example Intro
6:22 - Creating Our First Class
10:05 - Adding Shoot and Ability Methods
10:48 - Creating Player Archetypes/Child Objects
12:27 - Checking Class Type


Source Code for OOP Example: github.com/SquidGodDev/Playdate-SDK-OOP

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