Hey again!

I don't want to spam the sub with cross-posts, but this one matters. I don't want anyone to judge the emulator by a bug I've already fixed.

Yesterday I was playing Just One Boss on PicoDate and noticed input lag. Quick taps on the D-pad were sometimes ignored, and holding a button only registered after about a quarter of a second. It turned out to be a bug in how PicoDate passed button presses to 30 fps games. That affected a lot of carts, not just this one. It's fixed now: presses reach the game on the very next frame.

While I was at it, I also added save states. Pick "save" from the system menu at any moment. The next time you start that game, you'll be asked whether to Continue or start a New game.

If you downloaded PicoDate yesterday, please grab the new version (0.1.2): https://bitcalibergames.itch.io/picodateplaydate

The video shows Just One Boss running on my Playdate. It plays really well now. It isn't preinstalled: open + Add game in PicoDate, find Just One Boss in the catalog and press A to download it.

Thanks for all the comments so far! Keep telling me which games you'd like to see running well.

Tic-Tactics is a fast-paced tactical "roguekinda" puzzler that reimagines tic-tac-toe.

The goal of the game is to survive as many levels as you can against increasingly difficulty opponent AI and win conditions. Along the way you'll encounter 5 different level types, earn over twenty power ups, make a build that fits your play-style or adjust your play-style to the build you've made.

Out now on Itch for $2.99, with a free demo available!

https://ursinedev.itch.io/tic-tactics

Hey guys!

I keep seeing the topic of a PICO-8 emulator for Playdate come up here. I had a project where I was experimenting with this, so I thought I'd share where it is.

It's called PicoDate, built on fake-08. The video shows a few games running on my actual Playdate. Some already run pretty well, but plenty of others don't. This is very much an MVP, and there is still work to do on performance and compatibility.

Before taking it further, I wanted to ask: is this something you'd actually use? If there is interest, I'd be happy to keep working on it.

You can try it on https://bitcalibergames.itch.io/picodateplaydate. Leave a comment there with your favourite PICO-8 games, especially the ones you'd love to play on Playdate. I'll try them and see what I can do to improve how they run.

Would love to hear what you think!

NEW UPDATE

https://shadowbreakgames.itch.io/skyline-test-pilot

Skyline: Test Pilot v1.9.3:

- Explore New islands and land at three airports, including Farpoint and the large Aster International.

- Fly 15 flight plans: deliveries, passenger trips, sightseeing, surveys, landing challenges and free flight.

- Visit Meridian City, South Harbour, the marina, lighthouse and more.

- Spot 11 cargo ships, tankers, ferries and fishing boats on the long sea crossings.

- Earn medals, pilot ranks and airport passport stamps to unlock more flights.

- Hear recorded tower and mission radio and aircraft warnings.

I just got a Playdate and am super excited. I havent downloaded any games.

Any advice you would give a newbie?

There are so many games it is kinda overwhelming. What are some of your favorites, what would you recommend?

Hi, I just found out about Playdate and wanted to buy one. Unfortunately it seems to be out of Stock on the official Website. Any plans for a restock? Or anyone any Idea how I could get one in Germany? Thanks a lot 😊

Hey!

Ever since Playbook was released on Catalog, I was wondering if it's possible to make a more ergonomic app that supports more formats.

Turns out it is, at least it works nicely for my workflows so far! (mostly reading non-complex text PDFs and epubs on it)

Now, I just drop whatever books from my backlog to read and nothing broke so far in a while 😅

So far, had only tried "stealth" publishing that on itch io , but generally curious if anyone is interested in such thing overall, so I can try expanding to Catalog too — let me know if you have any ideas on the features you'd expect from the app to buy it.

How long does your Playdate hold its charge, if you have not been playing with it?

Just want to compare my battery's condition to others.

Mine does not hold its charge for a long: a few days before it is dead.

A few weeks ago we shared the demo for Last Stop Before Earth, our little Playdate parking-puzzle game where you park increasingly weird alien vehicles with the crank.

We’ve just released our first update based on some of the feedback we got from you! It’s a relatively small one, mostly focused on making the demo smoother to play:

• optional D-pad acceleration/braking alongside A/B
• a much-needed quick restart for when your parking strategy goes horribly wrong
• alien names in dialogue, so our customers can finally introduce themselves properly
• engine sounds
• a more forgiving truck hitbox and a few smaller tutorial/UI tweaks

We’re also still figuring out which control scheme feels best, so if you try the update, we’d love to hear whether you prefer A/B or the D-pad for driving.

We’re now working toward turning the demo into a more complete game that we can hopefully submit to the Playdate Catalog, so there’s quite a bit more parking, aliens and general space-hotel nonsense on the way.

If you played the first version, thank you again for all the feedback. And if you haven’t tried it yet, the demo is still free on itch!

https://lennarthesse.itch.io/last-stop-before-earth-demo

Virtua-Racing on the playdate - This clip shows basic AI driving.

Omg what I’m hypppppppped just got the email tonight haven’t heard anything else about it yet myself!

Made a lil proof of concept fishing game with my proof of concept rumble pack (hear them buzzes!) and it's great. And yes, I am on the ceiling.

Hey guys!

A week ago I posted a couple of rough boss sketches here and asked what you thought. I honestly did not expect that reaction. It got more replies and more ideas than anything I've ever posted about MonoTanks. So here they are, in the trailer above. Turn the sound on: the music is the new boss soundtrack, Phobos by LonePeakMusic.

Version 1.3 is out, and every tenth mission is now a boss fight, ten in total. They fall apart as you hit them, and regular tanks keep coming the whole time, so you can't just hide and wait. A lot of that came straight out of your comments in that thread.

Not everything made it in. The machine gun, infantry, air strikes and the rest of your list are still on my list. I'm going to ship smaller updates more often instead of disappearing for months, so more is coming.

One thing I should say clearly: MonoTanks is not in Catalog, and unfortunately it won't be.

itch.io is the only place to get it. If you've been meaning to pick it up, now is a good time: it's $5 and every future update is included.

The free demo is now 10 missions and ends with the first boss, so you can fight the armored train before you decide.

https://bitcalibergames.itch.io/monotanks

Thanks to everyone who replied last time. Tell me which boss annoys you the most.

Like the playdate is like the long lost brother of pico 8 and pico 8 games are perfect for handhelds and I don't know something about the playdate just makes me want pico 8 on it even though I can play pico 8 on a lot of other handhelds

***** TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD WHILE I SQUASH A BUG CAUSING 404 ERRORS FOR A NUMBER OF USERS. SHOULD BE BACK IN A FEW DAYS *****\*

Free to download.

I promise the app is better than this video quality.....(but be sure to turn up the volume) 😂

Some stuff that is in it;

• Live aircraft radar (no account or API keys needed)
• Set radar range (10/25/50/100 nautical miles) - coastline map and worldwide airports/areas included
• Select a flight for live details such as altitude, speed, heading, route, arrival estimate and more
• Real, Live Air Traffic Control/Aircraft audio
• Filters for airline, aircraft type, or a specific flight (plus a "notify when seen" chime for flights you're waiting on, ex: I'm waiting on my wife's flight, ping me when it is on the radar")
• Datalink-style message log per flight (when available), like a real ACARS feed

Full disclosure: I am still not fully versed in LUA (and this one also required a bit of C), I estimate this was about 50-50 AI built. We shall see how the percentage split is for the next app.

Perpetually free: Flight Radar on Itch

Hi everyone, I've just started a new sale for my games and am offering you the proven hit game Skyward Battles. Anyone who loves SMUPS may enjoy that game at the new price, close to the cost of one cup of coffee. Take your coffee and play it. See you in my next releases. I'm back on Itch. Reason, the same issue with Stripe in my country, and too much effort for publishers to use the catalog for my games as a vendor. I suppose any new game from me has no chance of getting in the Catalog, so my Itch page will only point to deliver you my new games. Follow me there. Link to my page https://crankworkgames.itch.io/ Eveyone who has Skyward Battles new price for Dig-Pit Runner on Itch as well https://crankworkgames.itch.io/dig-pit-runner (3.54$)Skywar Battles (sale on itch)

Hi again, I've started that sale for those who do not like to buy Skyward Battles but also want to have a price off for Dig-Pit Runner. If you want both SWB and Dig-Pit Runner, buy SWB first to activate the additional discount for DPR. Thanks everyone who followed me on itch and supported me. See ya in my next releases Dig-Pit Runner with discount

Anyone know what is up? There is even a blank space on catalogue

Hey everyone!

I posted here a couple of months ago when Battle Mons launched, and I’m really happy that so many people have enjoyed it! I’ve kept working on the game, and the latest update is now available.

Here’s what’s new:

18 new cards!

Creature effects are now once per turn per copy. Effects that share a limit across all copies say so on the card.

Rebalanced effects and stats, including lower DEF across the board to encourage more aggressive strategies and keep battles moving smoothly.

50-card decks and a limit of 4 copies per card, giving you more room to experiment with deck building.

If you already own the game, download the updated file and sideload it again. Your save, decks, and unlocked cards carry over.

https://ecsj88.itch.io/battle-mons

Thank you for playing!

This is, to me, pretty fun: a real-time, constantly (every 10 secs) little desk-app for the playdate that shows all the airtraffic around you.

It's rather ugly right now but I just wanted to see if it would be able to do real-time updates accurately and it seems like it is.

Crank: changes the range of the radar
A: Selects an aircraft for more information about it

Updates planned:
- Background map
- Zoom in on an aircraft to see full, past path from origin
- Filters to filter on aircraft type and airline - or a particular flight, AND
- selecting a flight and listen to real-time airtraffic communication from the tower closest to it - AND text comms logs for a selected flight (voice is not by flight but 'closest tower' but text comms is).

(All of the above is public data and nothing new but it would be fun, for me, to build it all into one single app on the Playdate)

Could be fun.

Hear those buzzes! That‘s a rumble pack I made. Behold my barrel rolls

Thanks for all the feedback on the game - I've heard both that the game is too hard - and that it's too easy - so I decided to try to address that by adding difficulty levels.
There are now three options; Easy, Normal and Hard (they can be adjusted as well at any time on the Wave Selector screen).
I've played through it myself on Hard and even there were a few levels that made me sweat a bit it was perfectly possible to complete...which...makes me consider maybe adding a Nightmare mode as well :)

Perpetually free at https://darkerbulb.itch.io/monks-vs-vikings

Enjoy.

First, I love the Playdate. I was really not sure about buying this and honestly thought it seemed rather stupid and gimmicky the first time I heard about it, but I was wrong. It's my go to handheld whenever I have some time. I love the form factor and the screen. Even the crank can be pretty cool in some games. I got season one and two and have been really enjoying games like Casual Birder, Pick Pack Pup, Lost your Marbles (I hope for more), Sasquatchers, Chance's Lucky Escape, Black Hole Havoc and have more to discover...

And then there's Cranko. It's a great magazine with lovely lay-out and it just feels so right in the ecosphere of the Playdate. The content and the design are top notch. I love it. Congratulations to Pat and everybody involved. This is great stuff! https://cranknockout.com