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Panic has a history of delivering thoughtful, well-made software. Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and n
by dbreunig 5y ago
Panic has a history of delivering thoughtful, well-made software. Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel. Combine that with Teenage Engineering's similar novel and excellent track record with hardware design and you've got a very interesting product to those that like Panic's software and/or like good hardware design. If nothing else this product will be novel and well considered.
If that's not your cup of tea, cool. But there's a lot here for several communities.
- tpush 5y ago> Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel. Note that Panic hasn't developed any of those games; they published them.
- JohnBooty 5y agoRight. True. Continuing that trend, nearly all of PlayDate's announced games are also externally developed and (obviously) published by Panic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console)#Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console)#Games
- amelius 5y agoThey could release just the software then, which would run fine on Android and iOS machines (which by the way offer way more value for people who appreciate good hardware and good software) Who needs more e-waste?
- thatguy0900 5y agoThe playmate has a unique interface with its wind up arm thing. I would assume all the already made launch games will use it
- frosted-flakes 5y agoNot all the games for the Playdate use the crank, but a lot do.
- amelius 5y agoThey could have sold the crank as an extension for iPhones or Android phones.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoThe hardware is the whole point of the endeavour.
- rfd4sgmk8u 5y agoI agree. In a chip shortage, we should be reassessing exactly what devices need the chips, and priorities. I am very unexcited by this product, it seems practically useless. Tiger Electronics Handhelds indeed. The steam deck (a real linux handheld computer) on the other hand, gimme gimme gimme
- jakelazaroff 5y agoOkay, but people want different things. If you were to ask me, I would much rather ”reassess” the Steam Deck — a device in which I have no interest, made by a company with a poor hardware track record — than the Playdate — a unique device with interesting exclusives made by two companies I like a lot.
- boffinAudio 5y agoSee also: ClockworkPi, DevTerm, GameShell / OpenPyra, etc. Seems to be an emerging successful model: take the revenues from a game/software product and use it to bootstrap a hardware company.