Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
We’ve just introduced Playdate Season Two, an exciting bundle of 12 brand-new Playdate games delivered over 6 weeks. And you can preorder it… RIGHT NOW!!| News Updates on Playdate News
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
You know what goes well with a comfy reading chair and a mug of hot apple cider? A tight collection of excellent Playdate games. 🔡 Sketch, Share, Solve, a fully-featured nonogram puzzle. Yes, you can construct your own puzzles and share them with friends! Made by RDK. 🐜 Lillybug, where fireflies take on termites and collect whirlygigs—classic video game stuff. Made by Scenic Route Software. 🏝️ GlagStone, a resource-manager game set on a mysterious island.| News Updates on Playdate News
Greetings. Jörg Tittel here, writer, director and producer of games, films and comics and co-host of Directional, a podcast on videogames and the creative rebellion. This year, I released the PS VR2 game C-Smash VRS, the star-studded multi-platform adventure The Last Worker, and its spin-off, SKEW, available only on Playdate of course. Some of the most precious moments in my life have been meeting my heroes—filmmakers, musicians, game developers and beyond—and thanks to the Playdate, I n...| News Updates on Playdate News
Fall is here, and with it, three new game drops (“drops” are similar to “falls”). Look at all these lovely titles: 🏀 Quantum Phantom Basketball, a basketball-fighting game set in a cataclysmic high fantasy New York City. Made by BRENDA ARTS. 🏴☠️ Life’s 2 Short: Unhooked, a point-and-click-lite adventure about a ghost, a pirate, and four wayward wives. Made by Pixel Ghost. 🌓 Halfway to Dawn, a hybrid shooter and narrative game requiring strategy, reflexes, and some luck.| News Updates on Playdate News
QUANTUM PHANTOM BASKETBALL IS LONG RANGE SHOOTIN’, HIGH FLYIN’, SLAM DUNKIN’, HARD SHOVIN’, PRE-RENDERED, BASKETBALL FIGHTING GAME ACTION! I grew up playing Midway arcade games and I wanted to make something that pays homage to that, but smarter! My name is Spencer Garland and I’m the founder of BRENDA ARTS, an interdisciplinary media company that incorporates BIPOC youth into all of our productions. My goal is to show young Black and Brown people how culture, art, engineering, and ...| News Updates on Playdate News
Put on your summer workout gear and run to Catalog—we’ve added a bunch of hot new games this month: 🍞 The Tartine’s Show, a theatrical performance put on after jumping out of a toaster. Of course. Made by Flying Oak Games. 🕳️ Crash Mole, a twist on the classic game of Whack-a-Mole. Made by Kait Sousa. 🧱 Soko, a polished sokoban game with over 400 puzzles, 7 unlockable characters, and the ability to import your own levels.| News Updates on Playdate News
Hello there, I’m Josh, sometimes known by my handle superfunc; I’m the designer and programmer behind Gun Trails, a bullet-hell shmup for Playdate. The game started back in October of 2022. I was living in Tokyo, had just quit my job, and was honestly having the programmer’s equivalent of an Eat-Pray-Love moment. Unsure if I’d continue programming professionally, spending most of my time playing Mushihimesama at the arcades in Akihabara, I was feeling a bit aimless.| News Updates on Playdate News
We hope you’re strapped into your beach chair today, because this drop features some action that will blow you away: 🚀 Gun Trails, a heart-pounding, buttery-smooth, bullet-hell shooter that pushes the Playdate to its technical ceiling, while testing the limits of your reflexes. Read more about its creation! Made by Yoyogi Games. 👻 Possessions, where you play as a restless spirit body-snatching poor, unsuspecting normals. Made by Moonbeam Games. 📻 Kicooya MP3 is a music player for P...| News Updates on Playdate News
How’s everyone’s summer going so far? If it’s sunny where you’re located, why not jump into a hammock or a beach chair with your Playdate, open up Catalog, and snag some of these new titles: 🟡 Mash Gadget, a fidgety digital toy for button-pressing fiends. Made by Bipedal Dog. 🐦⬛ Cranky Bird, a flappy platformer where you’ll spread your wings across 30+ hazard-filled levels. Made by Jerry Verhoeven. 🐼 Bomber Panda is a level-solving puzzler that requires brains, but als...| News Updates on Playdate News
Hey! I’m Matteo, better known as RPDev, owner of Risolvi Productions. I’m an indie software developer and author of P-Racing, a pseudo-3D racing game. P-Racing delivers a pure racing experience pushing Playdate to its limit. P-Racing Once upon a time, there was a developer who really wanted to make a game but never had a chance to do that. He was focused mainly on programming and designing iOS apps.| News Updates on Playdate News
We’ve got an impressive crop of games today, featuring some platform firsts: 🏎️ P-Racing, a stunning pseudo-3D racer, with computer opponents, a photo mode, and…… racecar soccer!! Truly incredible. Made by Risolvi Productions. 🗒️ Pocket Planner is a suite of productivity tools: to-dos, calendar, voice memo, contacts. Get busy! Made by Hydra Softworks. 🌌 Stars of the Screen is a loving tribute to classic screensavers and small, pastime games. But look deeper and you made fin...| News Updates on Playdate News
We have two important pieces of Playdate news for you today: Playdate OS 2.0 is out There’s an update to your Playdate’s operating system! You can get it by going into Settings > System. This improves a few things and lays a foundation for the future. One big change in Playdate OS 2.0 is the new list view on the Home screen. In addition to the big, expressive cards showing off each game’s “box art,” you can switch to a compact list view with icons.| News Updates on Playdate News
Five new titles today, covering a wide gamut of types and styles. Look: 🐍 Snoik! is a snake-like arcade game with a unique and trippy first-reptile perspective. Made by Ash K, Published by Strangest.io. 🤖 Shift, a deceptively simple match-four game guided by SAM-Y the droid. Made by Scenic Route Software. 🔼 PlayDaPon, an intense version of the classic match-three puzzle. Made by Lonely Star Software. ⏰ Playtime, a collection of fifty fun clocks, screen savers, and fidget toys.| News Updates on Playdate News
The Catalog Drops keep coming—we’ve got five new titles for you today. 🛋️ Generations, where you puzzle out how to arrange family portraits on the living-room wall. Made by Scenic Route Software. 🔁 Loopsy, an arcade race against the clock to build as many loops as you can. Made by Paul. 🧟♂️ NECROCRISIS, an on-rails zombie shooter set in a graveyard full of unimaginable horrors. Made with their trademark extreme touch by Strangest.| News Updates on Playdate News
Got an aqua-colored notification light on your Playdate? That means it’s time to open Catalog or visit our website and check out some great new games: 🪓 Legend of Etad, A first-person dungeon crawler, made by Gareth Williams. 📮 Post Hero, a mail-carrier simulator with magical details. Made by Scenic Route Software. 😼 Spike II: The Great Emu War, where the cat army battles the emu horde, made by Goloso Games.| News Updates on Playdate News
It’s that time again—we’ve got more excellent games in Catalog. Check your Playdate or head to our website and grab these new titles: ☕️ A Balanced Brew, the world’s premier combination of unicycling and espresso, from Robert Curry. 💥 Shining Gadget and Shadow Gadget, a pair of creature-collecting idlers where you capture g-g-ghosts?! From Strangest.io. 🟪️ Skwish, a charming and challenging puzzle from Pawprints. 🫧 Bub-O Collect, a romantic bubble-shooting puzzle from G...| News Updates on Playdate News
We have new games! Catalog has been updated today with these excellent additions: 🕳️ Core Fault, a survivors-like with a wicked fun game loop, from Playdate wizards SquidGod and davemakes. 🚀 Gravity Express, where you use your precision skills to battle gravity while transporting cargo through abandoned mines, from Nino van Hooff. 🀄️ Sparrow Solitaire, A beautiful new take on the tile-matching game mahjong solitaire, optimized for Playdate. Packed with layouts, options, and game ...| News Updates on Playdate News
Here’s the lineup of games available now that Playdate Catalog has launched: 🎙️ Direct Drive, a silent-movie-musical game about being an intern in the music industry in 1927, from DAC Vector 🏂🏽 Carve Jr, where you’ll hit the slopes like never before, from Chuhai Labs 🎼 Playmaker, with six playful creative spaces where you can paint, compose, build, record, and dance, from Dustin Mierau ⚙️ Swap Machina, a fast-paced puzzle game made in the Pulp game engine by NaOH & Zion D.| News Updates on Playdate News
It’s a story we’ve all been hearing recently: costs are going up for parts, shipping… you name it. Panic is unfortunately no exception to these trends: our manufacturing partner recently gave us the news that the cost of building a Playdate is going up. And given our already tight margins, we’re at a point when we need to adjust Playdate’s price. We don’t take this lightly: we’ve always wanted Playdate to be as affordable as possible.| News Updates on Playdate News
Playdate Catalog is now available for all Playdate owners! Arriving with the latest Playdate OS and also available at play.date/games, Catalog is our curated store for neat Playdate software. It’s launching with new games, and some previously released favorites. You can check these games out in the Catalog app on your Playdate (make sure it’s running the latest version of the Playdate OS.) You can also get them on our website; the games will be delivered wirelessly to your Playdate .| News Updates on Playdate News
Six months ago, we released the Playdate SDK: a free, fun way to create games for our quirky 1-bit console with a crank. We find it incredible—frankly, quite shocking!—to see how many games have been made since then. As of today, there are over three hundred Playdate games available on itch.io, all ready to sideload wirelessly. There’s now a cool way to check out some of the neatest Playdate games: the Playdate Community Bundle by Playdate Squad.| News Updates on Playdate News
As the first shipments of Playdate arrive in customers’ hands, we’re seeing some very cool games being developed for Playdate. Here’s a little roundup of ones that caught our eye! But first Sideloading these games onto your Playdate is very simple. Log in to your Playdate account at https://play.date, Go to the Sideload tab, Drag and drop a .pdx or a .zipped .pdx game file. It should download within an hour; or you can go to Settings > Games to download it now.| News Updates on Playdate News
Playdates in Group One will begin shipping… today. You’ll be emailed the moment your Playdate ships. We’ll ramp up our shipping volume every day to make sure all of our systems are working smoothly. We think we can get Group One out the door during the next month. And remember, your season of games begins when you set up your Playdate. (Yes, Group Two, you’re next. We’ll have more news for you in the future about estimates and details.| News Updates on Playdate News
As you know, last month we released Pulp, our easy-to-use Playdate game making tool. And today, as promised… it’s time for even more developer news. The full Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for free to all!! The full Playdate SDK is for folks already comfortable with coding — but we’ve worked hard to make it as easy and approachable as we can. It gives you two choices of languages: Lua, for a higher-level scripting language experience, or C, for improved performance.| News Updates on Playdate News
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Hey, friends!! There’s always a lot going on with Playdate here at Panic, but lately it feels like even more than usual… so we’ve put together a little news update for you. Let’s go!| News Updates on Playdate News
It’s a big day for Playdate news. We have three exciting things to share. The first is a new Playdate Update video, featuring some wonderful upcoming games and news. Give it a watch!| News Updates on Playdate News
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
👽 Mars After Midnight, the new game from Lucas Pope—maker of Papers, Please and Return of Obra Dinn—is here. It’s an entrant-screening, mess-tidying, session-planning work simulator. Buy it in Catalog on your Playdate, or on our website. We hope you enjoy your shift at The Off-Colony Community Support Center. Get Mars After Midnight| News Updates on Playdate News
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
🏆 Congratulations to Reel-istic Fishing on winning the Playdate Community Game of 2023 award! Watch the entire Playdate Community Awards show on Youtube, then bring home the winners on Catalog. crank to buy| News Updates on Playdate News
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.| news.play.date