Playdate is getting a second season of games in 2025

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• GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a dev who recently released a game for the system (on sale now - only $1!), I’m pretty excited to see what gets included! It sounds like it’ll be all new games

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  • jgrim@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neat! Bought it!

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    • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cheers, happy Halloween!

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  • zagaberoo@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ayy, Pomo Post is super cute! Cool to bump into a dev on Lemmy.

    I love that the Playdate is inspiring people to make tools that are also beautiful and fun like a good toy. The whole system makes me just plain happy :)

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    • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hello 👋 The niche toys are my favorite part! Someone made an orrery app, which is like a solar system simulator. I have this year’s eclipse bookmarked because it’s neat

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• chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man I want one of these so bad 😩

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Save up for season 2, it’ll be like a game book club! Maybe we can finally make a playdate lemmy community 😭

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    • chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aight. You know what. I’ve been eyeing this thing for hella long. I’ve had a shitty few weeks. I can afford it. Just ordered one! Excited for December! I’ll def try your game out :)

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My worry is that after a few days of playing around with it, it becomes a $200 paperweight. It’s a bit (and by that I mean at least 2x) too expensive for what it is.

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    • zagaberoo@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, being a niche product without the economies of scale elsewhere in gaming makes the price really awkward. My hope is that will improve over time if the install base keeps growing.

      I use mine just about every day, I’ve been fully obsessed with a game on multiple occasions, and I’m excited every time there are new things in the catalog. Easily worth full game-console price for the joy I’ve gotten out of it. But, that doesn’t really help anybody else, I know.

      It really is a lot less of a gimmick than it might seem. The final game of the first season is a shockingly polished gameboy-zelda-style adventure that I’ve played start-to-finish more than once.

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    • chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get that. But at the same time I have a bit of an obsession with handheld devices. And there’s enough of a cool indie scene that I think I’d use it quite a bit, and develop for it myself. UFO 50 is my goty and I feel that same sense of discovery and fun I could get out of a device like this

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    • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unfortunately it’s still ~$100 just to make the thing, so halving the price doesn’t sound likely. It’s definitely a device you have to use intentionally because of the screen, but I still play mine at least few times a week (and daily when I’m pomodoroing!)

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still feels a bit pricey but I’m happy to hear about another season. Some day I might get one just to play the Lucas Pope game.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mars After Midnight was fun!

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    • zagaberoo@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the soundtrack is so good

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• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Holy shit I was just thinking about this thing at work and forgot what it was called

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