Tom White

Hyper Vector releases in tomorrow's Catalog drop! #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Hi, I’m Case! 👋 I’m a sound designer who loves crafting sounds from scratch. Recording, tweaking, experimenting and getting my hands dirty. No dang AI generation here! While the digital world gets more “tokens this” and “credits that”, I’m happy keeping things old-school. 💜

Go get it!

Peedee ICF-390 launches on Catalog tomorrow! Be transported as you crank through random radio stations from around the world. Unique to the Catalog release is a sleep timer! #playdate #indiedev #solodev

Season 3 CONFIRMED, starts October 8. Pre-order now! 🛼 play.date/s3

As a programmer, I am intimately familiar with my own code until the moment my PR/MR is approved, at which point the code could be an Enigma encryption for all I know.

RIP Tim Curry. Here having the time of his life in a video game. youtu.be/U_U59u69tys?...

I just think they're neat

Are you a speed demon? Do you have grease in your veins? Join the Chevalier Racing League. #playdate #indiedev #gamedev

This is deeply emotional for us.🥹 Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey. ❤️ Steam: store.steampowered.com/app1553260

someone did a BoC Steamed Hams edit 😂

small handheld. big ben.

I've stopped playing the #Playdate , but the #Peedee #radio app https://mamota-games.itch.io/peedee-icf-390 has brought it back into my life. I turn it on while cooking, when the environment is loud enough that high fidelity doesn't matter and high frequencies are desirable, and discover quirky […]

Making a game for the Playdate knowing the sales data will be anecdotal at best is really liberating. After many years of making games for companies, following market trends, and making what I was asked to make instead of what I wanted to do... now I have total freedom. And it feels wonderful ❤️

My book Make Games for @play.date with Lua is finally done after 18 months of writing and revising! It's now available on all ebook retailers. The book is written for beginners, covering the key concepts of game programming, Lua, and the Playdate SDK. pdbook.net

⑤ Crankwords is a daily word game for Playdate. Find all the words within the letters in 5 minutes, and compare your score to your friends with online scoreboards. 🔠 play.date/games/crank...

My little project Crankwords landed on the #playdate Catalog today, it's a dollar, go get it! play.date/games/crankw...

Hyper Vector is out! Crankwords is releasing on Catalog next week! Which means it's time for a new project... #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

IT'S OUT! GOGOGO: play.date/games/crankb...

And some fun little dither experiments that came out of the process but that were not suitable for something that needs to be printable.

A poster commission for @tomwhite.bsky.social's retro game inspired by classis like Escape Velocity for the Playdate handheld, Hyper Vector. You can check the game out here: play.date/games/hyper-...

Students of any age can create real, playable games on a device that they can hold in their hands, a pretty powerful entrance to learning computer science and game development! Learn more about Playdate for education, and special discounts for qualifying educators below 👇 🍎 play.date/education

③ Embark on your galactic journey and plot your own course through factional conflict, piracy and an ever-changing economy in Hyper Vector! 🪐 play.date/games/hyper...

Fire up those Playdates! 5 new games have been added to Catalog 🔥 Visit play.date/games or open Catalog directly in your Playdate. Enjoy!

So hyped for this. How many other #eurovision entrants run their own museum I wonder? youtu.be/8XR2RvfZ-68?...

Grab Flinger in the sale! play.date/games/flinger/

picoCAD 2 launches on March 16! Check out the trailer 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr-m... #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart

Kai's Power Goo (1996). I bought my boxed copy from CompUSA.

now with rich cinematic sound

Damian Hall began loop 3 barefoot at 22:54:26. Mathieu Blanchard and Sébastien Raichon began loop 3 shortly thereafter. #BM100

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Can’t believe they went to Aldhani to film the Traitors final!

Hello, it's my birthday so I feel bold enough to suggest; if you'd like to make a small, for-profit game or two together in 2026 please get in touch!

Finally getting metadata assets set up for Hyper Vector, launch animations are fun! #playdate #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

There's been a bit of a break in Hyper Vector development, but I've been on another stint recently. Gradually ironing out bugs and improving balance. Today I've been tweaking the slot machine payouts, here's what I'm using to simulate!

This is incredible. They took this picture down, not because its a nightmare ai monstrosity, but because "it looks like immigrants a bit. maybe." Like 2 different strains of insanity colliding and somehow cancelling each other out

Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.

Even with advancements granted by Ruhetek, planetfall is still rather risky. Better have a good Cloning Contract before venturing forth. #playdate #indiedev #gamedev

Added a log-overdue feature to Hyper Vector: an explorable map. #gamedev #playdate #indiedev #solodev

Playdate game developer Keith Baker has created a super handy, unofficial Mac app for managing a Playdate device. Easy access to screenshots, achievements, logs, and lots more. Check out pdmanager! 🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/pdman...

I've made a few improvements to trade in Hyper Vector, completely overhauling the Market to provide much more information, which should make profitable trading much easier. There's also more information in the Manifest on good routes! #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

In a long ago place, in a far away time, The villagers cast out one whose song didn't rhyme... Defeat the Mysterious Monsters! Retrieve the four Mysterious Musical Notes and collect the Mysterious Gems! sing-song ding-dong coming to @play.date Catalog on the 9th of December! #playdate #gaming

A playtesting build is available for Hyper Vector! If you'd like to give this rather rough version a go I'd appreciate any feedback! #gamedev #playdate #indiedev #solodev discord.com/channels/675...