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The play date doesn’t even have shades of grey and has plenty of good games, arguably because of similar constraints
by lucasban 2y ago
The play date doesn’t even have shades of grey and has plenty of good games, arguably because of similar constraints
- rob74 2y agoOTOH, the PlayDate is a hardware device, so using a monochrome LCD makes sense for cost saving and power consumption reasons. But, even for a hardware device, once you decide you want to have a color screen, in this day and age there is no real (technical) reason anymore to limit the number of colors.
- lucasban 2y agoI agree, I think it’s more of a novelty reason, just a constraint for the sake of encouraging creativity / not just being another place for the same things we already have.
- tredre3 2y ago> so using a monochrome LCD makes sense for cost saving and power consumption reasons The Sharp Memory LCD used in the Playdate is more expensive than a similarly sized IPS LCD. Whilst power consumption was probably a consideration, the main justification was to impose a deliberate game design constraint IMHO.