wiedo - Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨

Progress on my @play.date game: Cranky Miner. I added backgrounds, screen transitions and a nice upgrade screen! To do this all I had to do some sprite optimizations so the game should run better too. As a bonus I added rare items to find! #gamedev #indiedev #playdate #playdatedev

🟨🟨🟨 My statement on Generative AI 🟨🟨🟨 youtu.be/Apfiso4vv00 #playdate

a while ago, i figured "i wanna play solitaire on my #playdate" so, i made it, ...and now you can play it! modes: klondike, spiderette, yukon, ??? lotsa: leaderboards, statistics, customizations, rule tweaks no: AI price: $7 MSRP; $5 if you get it this week catalog link: play.date/games/raes-s...

Thanks to the character art created by @robert-twisted.bsky.social I finally can get started with the Playdate Catalog store art for Cranky Miner. It’s work in progress; or not; we’ll see. #indiedev #gamedev

How do you play Tetris with spaghetti? Noodling around in indie puzzle game Spaghetti Celesti is a great way to pasta time! Free on Itch! punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-ce... by indie dev @punkcake.club #gaming

I took the strangest time to start being a #gamedev with all the AI discourse. Idk why you would AI do all the fun stuff. Update: The folks at Panic asked for some more tutorialization. So I added a reference card for values and some instructions what buttons to press. #indiedev #playdate #noAI

RT if you don't use AI for coding

HUGE NEWS. Just got my @play.date Catalog approval mail! Now I have to iron out the final bugs, improve the gameplay and balancing more and add some explanation screens. Then we’ll have to wait for an official release date.

A little animation goes a long way to make the character more lively imho. #indiedev #gamedev #playdate #playdatedev

A little animation goes a long way to make the character more lively imho. #indiedev #gamedev #playdate #playdatedev

I streamed my game yesterday (and @indiana-jonas.com fun game Long Puppy). And found out that it's too easy on later levels, so I decided to tweak the difficulty today. While the first 10 stages are the same, after that it'll get harder on an exponential scale. www.twitch.tv/videos/28977...

Come by the stream! Blink is playing Rock Band for all the music fans out there. Twitch.tv/polymedianetwork

The 24 hour @polymedianetwork.bsky.social Annual Charity stream is live! Raising money for @wck.org Come watch and donate twitch.tv/polymedianetwork

Polymedia’s 24 hour charity live stream starts in 2 hours! Check the schedule; there’s something for everyone here! Help us raise money for World Central Kitchen!

Tomorrow!

Implemented playdate catalog highscores with fallback if it isn’t available. I use the pdScoreboards library for it. Has to be seen if that still works since it hasn’t been updated for 3 years: github.com/PlaydateSqua... I can only find out when I’m accepted to the @play.date catalog. #indiedev

Successfully implemented pd achievements in my upcoming game Cranky Miner especially for people who need a completion goal.

#justbeatit Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest Fun gated exploration platformer with a convincing GBC aesthetic. If it really was a GBC game it would’ve been amazing; now it’s just good. On my way to 100% it too. Also the playtime is lying, it took me double that time. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

Come join us for the annual Polymedia 24-hour Charity Stream, benefiting World Central Kitchen! Stream kicks off at noon EST October 10th on twitch.tv/polymedianetwork. Stop by and help us support a great cause!

Next week I’ll stream the @play.date game Long Puppy by @indiana-jonas.com for charity! Tune in and donate for the World Central Kitchen (and a fun time). twitch.tv/polymedianet...

Tower of Gold is coming November 1st! 🎉 It's a massive puzzle/action game with a first-person overworld full of characters and mysteries. I'll release a trailer alongside the game, but here's a small teaser in the meantime! #indiegames #indiedev

Next week I’ll stream the @play.date game Long Puppy by @indiana-jonas.com for charity! Tune in and donate for the World Central Kitchen (and a fun time). twitch.tv/polymedianet...

Geometric quake 1

Bring back holographic everything 🤙

PicoDate is putting PICO-8 games on Playdate with Wi-Fi cart downloads, offline play and save states. The experimental emulator is already getting rapid fixes. #PICO8 #Playdate #IndieGames

Fun boomshoot get fun new DLC

#justbeatit The Keyper Simplistic game where you’re looking for keys and doing fetch quests in a very nonsensical labyrinthian building with a lot of backrooms. Very hard to navigate but has quite a lot of story to tell. Wouldn’t have beaten it without a walkthrough. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam

#justbeatit Maze Mice Combination of Pacman and a survivors-like. Insanely grind heavy game but because there's a little skill involved it was a fun time-waster for me. Took me 13h to finally unlock and beat the 4th maze. There's many more achievement, but I'm good. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

Gold Miner It's the main inspiration for my game. An old flash game which I didn't play for at least 12y. I figured let's check it out and idk why it's popular because it's almost impossible to Game Over and therefor very boring. Looped it and called it a #justbeatit. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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SPRAWL zero is out now! Available on PC via Steam, Steam Deck & Epic Store - Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2. Thank you to all our supporters for making this possible, we owe you the world! store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/...

SPRAWL zero is finally out. Holy shit what a ride, I'm infinitely proud of what we as a team of 4 made in basically a year. It's on launch sale right now so grab it if you're interested! store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/...

#justbeatit Echo: The Oracle Scroll Good gated exploration platformer Playdate. Took me over 3 hours to get credits and only got half of the main collectibles. Enjoyed my time but there was some tedium around falling down platforms and redoing sections a lot. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

Posting here so you bluesky people can see the monstrosities that DLSS5 is bringing to us... BEHOLD!

Decided to finally tackle the character sprite for my @play.date game.. next up: implement the roguelike upgrade system!

I'm very proud of this episode, and it was a ton of fun to record/put together. If you haven't checked out our indie game show before, never a better time to jump in!

Good to have some playtesters ready to try out my work in progress

Indie Retro News: Quake64 - Quake for the Commodore 64? Sort of! indieretronews.com/2026/08/quak... #retrogaming #gaming #quake @c64cade.com ( video fixed )

Attempting to make my first game, this is what I got out of the first hours. I had a cool idea based on a Flash game classic for the @play.date. Do you know what game it’s inspired on?

#justbeatit 1 2 3 D Weird little free jam game with an interesting mechanic where you can change perspectives on the fly. Good idea & decent execution. I wish it was more of a game and less of a proof of concept. Also didnt know what the 0D is for. krias.itch.io/123d @polykillpodcast.bsky.social