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The Playdate looks like what you'd make if someone only described the games kids made and shared on the TI-83 graphing calculator and then asked you to build a
by throwway120385 6mo ago
The Playdate looks like what you'd make if someone only described the games kids made and shared on the TI-83 graphing calculator and then asked you to build a device.
- bigiain 6mo agoYou say that like it's a bad thing... It fits, in my head, very much in that same toy niche as Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operator series of music making devices: https://teenage.engineering/products/po https://teenage.engineering/products/po
- flobosg 6mo agoTeenage Engineering designed the Playdate, in case you didn’t know: https://teenage.engineering/designs/playdate https://teenage.engineering/designs/playdate
- adampunk 6mo agoIt’s for Gen-X dads to buy and pay themselves on the back about “productive constraints” while they play games that suck.
- tclancy 6mo agoHey man, I was just trying to invent an excuse to buy one and you had to do that. Well … played.
- Brendinooo 6mo agoHe's wrong. There are some great games that I've played on it. And I'm a Millennial dad. AND I think Panic is a cool company that's worth supporting, AND I think that, if you have the money sitting around, it's probably good to support weird niche hardware projects by indies.