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I've been playing around with the Playdate SDK (https://sdk.play.date https://sdk.play.date) over the holidays and it's awesome for small games like the author

I've been playing around with the Playdate SDK (https://sdk.play.date https://sdk.play.date) over the holidays and it's awesome for small games like the author describes. Working with a tiny 1-bit screen and ~150MHz CPU puts some serious constraints on what you can do, which I've found to be pretty freeing (less analysis paralysis, more doing...)

j0hnyl 3y ago
first i'm hearing about this platform. how poppular is it? seems so obscure.
- sp332 3y ago
  They sold over 50,000 of them in the first year (by May 2023). Maybe we'll get another sales update this year.
- cableshaft 3y ago
  A Playdate game, Yoyozo, actually made Ars Technica's best games of 2023 list. Looks to be a bit of a small game like this. I have one, it's fun to play with, and I have one of my games working on it, although I don't think it's good enough to release yet. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2023/7/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-vi...