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I'm putting a lot of care into the boss fights of Owlet's Embrace. Here's a preview of what's to come. Will you take on the challenge? #playdate #metroidvania #gamedev

Season buddies!

After two more afternoons of tinkering I fully fixed it! I hope I won't have to repair a CRT ever again.

Inspired by a recent interaction

There will always be people who appreciate what YOU make, it just might take them a while to find you.

I just had to give Mina the Hollower a try because it's been praised so much. Yeah, it really is that good. I can't stop playing, help me.

Oh, you've made a video game? And you want people to play it? Well, let's talk about how to do that better. How, exactly, can you make sure people care about your game and want to tell other people about it? Check it out here: docseuss.medium.com/its-not-enou...

This is your LAST CHANCE to play Big Walk early! We've just opened up 4 FINAL weeks of our Big Walk Preview!! Come to the Panic office, bring some friends, and play an hour of Big Walk. It's very fun. Book now: forms.panic.com/big-walk-pre... Here's a special behind-the-scenes peek at the room:

Remaking OOT is probably a way to probe how people respond to the classic Zelda formula nowadays, as Nintendo needs a new direction for their next 3D main title. There's an entire generation out there who only played the more sandbox style games BOTW, TOTK, Echoes of Wisdom.

youtubers, if you stick a playdate on your shelf as set decoration, i am judging you if it's obviously not charged

I was really looking forward to Valve's new controller. Unfortunately it needs Steam or a 3rd party application to work with anything outside of Steam on Windows i.e. no working controller input in any non-Steam game out of the box. Really bummed out about that one.

Turning very basic things into upgrades or purchasable items in metroidvanias: Map pins, position on the map, walking faster, homing coins. They can be neatly used as yet another reward for the player, but how far is too far? Sometimes I'm surprised that they even let me walk left and right.

Devils on the Moon Pinball is out!!!! What a time to be alive!! get it here: play.date/games/devils... Only on @play.date #pinball #indiegames #pixelart #playdate

A slower paced section to change things up. Testing the limits of the grappling hook a bit (and apparantly the amount of relevant space I can fit into view, too)

A staple of the #metroidvania genre!

JOMO - Joy of missing out

Devils on the Moon is finally coming out! Yes, we may have gone a bit over scope. But after 2 years the game is releasing March 26! Wish it here! play.date/games/devils... Only on @play.date catalog. #pinball #indegames #Pixelart #playdate

New Free Game for the Playdate! Original horizontal shooter TWYK SHOT. Five whole stages! Power Ups! Bosses! Interactive Menus! Free! digikerot.itch.io/twyk-shot

Yup, we're working on a new Castlevania game. Thanks to KONAMI, & with Motion Twin's friendly advice, the franchise will be going back to its roots with what we hope to be the best whip traversal & combat ever seen in a 2D action-adventure game! Noooo pressure... www.konami.com/games/castle...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I'm tired of 2FA becoming mandatory for a lot of services. Why can't my password simply log me in like it used to?

Played some diablo 2 with friends (non-resurrected). Something about that game is just right. It's an evergreen for a reason. I especially love the crunchy sound effects, guaranteed to be burned into your memory forever.

Trains! (and menu system logic) StarBento! #playdate #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #trains

Having a lot of fun building rooms lately. I certainly have to keep my own "playtesting" time in check!

We all like to call ourselves perfectionists. However, I consider it a bad trait. It shows that you care, but time to create approaches infinity. Because you won't need to prioritize you won't reflect on what about your craft actually matters. Consider leaving an edge, it makes your craft special.

If you stream your game's development, working on the game is your channel's content. After aquiring enough regular viewers some people seemingly decided to never finish their game to keep the content going and just became YouTubers instead.

Showed and demoed Owlet's Embrace in Hamburg. Had a lot of fun watching other people play the game and chat about their experience, a really eye-opening perspective shift.

A Link to the Past

With almost laughably low power, a monochrome screen, and unique controls, niche-micro console Playdate shouldn't make any sense in a world of modern gaming. Yet, it's near impossible not to love it. www.wired.com/story/three-...

Equally excited and TERRIFIED to finally do this. Games journalism is in a rough state, so we've decided to get involved to highlight games that we think pave a positive future for the industry. And we named the outlet the best/dumbest thing possible. welcome to noclip_2

And... they’ve done it again. Setting a price lower than most titles of comparable quality, complexity, and scope. While it’s certainly generous for players, which is honestly nice, it also raises the bar in a way that can be truly challenging for other indie devs to match.

silksong, honey...... a 80 hour game does not belong in the $20 price category...... us indies with 20 hour games really need that space for healthy expectations...

I’d like to talk a little bit about my process of creating the key art for Herdling (thread: 1/10)

Exclusively working with 1-bit pixel art for over two years now. The duality of black and white is fascinating: the lack of color makes it seem a bit dull at first but at the same time it's a neutral canvas for your mind to interpret and fill in the gaps i.e. color, tone and emotions.

You can just do stuff, you know?

Hey! check out this article written by Ricardo Gallegos at @butwhytho.net about us! and our game CatchaDiablos! :D

I'm going to present my current Playdate-project next Monday at @indietreff.bsky.social in Hamburg. It's called 🛡️G l o o m G a t e⚔️ and it's an action RPG with reaction based fights, a node based overworld, Souls-Like elements and still looooots of missing features. But I'm getting there😅