Playdate season 3 coming later this year. Also announced is Playdate for Education: https://play.date/education/

Join us as we celebrate another great year for the Playdate community with 20 award categories, exclusive trailers, and a few more surprises.

Over 200 games are discounted, including the biggest and coolest things made for Playdate.

We have released a demo/prototype for a small action platformer game we have been working for quite some time already.

We are looking for all the feedback we can get, here is the trailer on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hb-TkgFDP8

Playdate OS 3.0 introduces Folders, a new Game Library app, and support for storing hundreds of games on your Playdate. Coming later this year.

Hello, fellow playdaters!

I'm Morgan, from Random Encounter Studios and my brother and I just finished developing our first playdate game. Fell in love with the device a year ago and decided to make a full fledged game on it.

It's a modern twist on arcade classics shmups, lots of actions, level ups, perks and coins! The game is about 6-8 hours length, hope you'll love it.

I'm happy to announce that ARMADA is now out on playdate, available on https://random-encounter-games.itch.io/armada (not sure if I can link something in the post but hey, i'll try)

Feel free to ask me anything about the game/studio/playdate, will be more than happy to answer!

cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/6095338

Thanks to ongoing work on no_std, people continue to try running Bevy on unusual platforms.

Today, @Mathspy from Discord managed to run it on the Playdate:

For what it's worth, Bevy's app, ECS, math, state work on the playdate with no patches
And Bevy's time works with a minor patch https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/17577

For rendering they're making playdate render calls in PostUpdate: https://github.com/Mathspy/bevydate/blob/1b4f02adcde079cf9757fd3c7d20331c9ab04513/src/lib.rs#L429-L441

What happened? Well, our first regret was assuming that our factory at that time — a factory that made lots of Bluetooth speakers — could easily design the electronics for us, saving us lots of time and money. That went pretty well at first. But they, in turn, outsourced the Bluetooth software and chipset to another company in another country.

As a result, the Stereo Dock would crash often — rapidly adjusting the volume would do it. The Bluetooth pairing/unpairing experience was rough. And when we played music, it just didn’t sound very good. The back-and-forth between three companies trying to fix bugs became a huge challenge. And worst of all: the cost of the Stereo Dock kept getting higher and higher.

https://play.date/stereo-dock/

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15696807

That was a hard long adventure, massive refactoring with bug-fixing 🥵

100+ games available on sale with some pretty good discounts!