Awooooooo! Day 4 of the Playdate Advent Calendar to remind you to go get Ware-wolf Campfire Stories! It's free, fun and has a ton of open-source @play.date projects to learn from! playdateadvent.com#/calender/20...

To celebrate @helloplaydate.bsky.social's 💯th podcast episode, check out their curation of favorite Playdate games in Catalog! 🎉 🎧 Listen here: sites.libsyn.com/412607/hello-100 💛 Favorite games: play.date/games/hello-playdate-podcast-100/

It's ok, we've all got some skeletons in our closet... *Spoilers...* Wishlist the @godotengine.org remake of the @play.date classic, Life's Too Short now: store.steampowered.com/app/4209750/... #indiegamedeveloper

WOW. Look at that environment. Reminds me of the Link's Awakening remake, seeing places that you're familiar with as being loaded in one screen at a time, suddenly you get to experience them as a cohesive whole. Looking *very* nice.

Life's Too Short is now available to wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4209750/... As you can see below, a lot of the house is now designed, movement, lighting, added characters. Now I start adding dialog and content! Excited to bring this story to more folks! #indiegamedeveloper

A bunch of my @play.date games are on sale in the Itch Black Friday sale for 2 more days: itch.io/s/169518/bla... You can also get them all for an even bigger saving! #indiegamedeveloper

Life's Too Short is now available to wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4209750/... As you can see below, a lot of the house is now designed, movement, lighting, added characters. Now I start adding dialog and content! Excited to bring this story to more folks! #indiegamedeveloper

Only 5️⃣ days left for FREE domestic shipping with your Playdate order!⚡ 📆 Offer ends November 30th. 🎁 US orders placed soon should arrive by Christmas! ⚠️ play.date/shop

And featuring from Catalog's past ✨ Explore The Lushes Land and uncover its mysteries in this Action-Adventure spin-off of Tochi! ⚔️ play.date/games/the-l... Castle Helios is a puzzle adventure game with a bit of combat and magic spells! 🏰 play.date/games/castl...

Thanks to @spaceindie.bsky.social for sending the first 3 issues of cranko! A brilliant fanzine for @panic.com @play.date full of interviews, features and more. Get yours here: cranknockout.com #panic #playdate

Super cool seeing Voidblazers in the third issue of @cranknockout.bsky.social 💫 Make sure to grab one if you haven’t already! Love the Playdate community for creating things like this, thank you @spaceindie.bsky.social!

The mansion now has a lot of the new residents in situ thanks to @thantropy.bsky.social! #indiegamedeveloper

Happy Friday folks! I’m remaking my first ever game Life’s Too Short for PC using Godot. I’ve got to sort some tax shenanigans then I’ll be making a Steam page to see if anyone fancies throwing a wishlist! #indiegamedeveloper

DJ butler is here to wish you a happy Thursday (I'm so happy with the work from @thantropy.bsky.social !). Also, check the original below :-D #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev @play.date

This was a reeeeeally special episode. Such incredible passion, insight and a lovely connection in the conversation between Simon and Andy. Absolutely loved it

Side-by-side of the original Life's Too Short front garden and LTSHD. It's coming together! I think the front is mostly done now. Time for the back garden and all the shenanigans in there! #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev @play.date

Season Two title Taria & Como has been nominated at the Indie Game Awards for the Innovation and Latin American Indie Game Awards—congratulations! ❤️‍🩹 Play Taria & Como: play.date/games/taria-and-como 🏆 See all the nominees at indiegameawards.gg 🍿 Tune in for the ceremony stream on December 18th!

Outside of the mansion coming together for LTSHD... #indiegamedeveloper

This looks incredible! And then I see Disasterpeace and I'm in...

🚨The Catalog Fall Sale wraps up tomorrow morning at 10AM PT!! Snag some classics + fan-favorites at a great discount before it's too late ⚡ play.date/games 👾

The new issue of @cranknockout.bsky.social has arrived and I am excited to say that I am currently helping to host the Pulp Lab section with lessons from me and Pixel Ghost games in the next issues and hopefully some other prominent Pulp devs in the future! #indiegamedeveloper @play.date

watch this if you wanna know what puzzle games you need to wishlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPmR...

I absolutely love these guys! It's a shame you don't see them until the end of LTS as they're hiding in their coffins but in LTS: A Christmas Spirit, you see them from the start. I am aiming to remake all 4 LTS games in Godot...

Needs to be much smoother but finally got a room transition function working for Life's Too Short HD! 👻 #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev

[email protected] is doing some incredible work on some custom sprites for Life's Too Short HD. Can't wait to get these into the game! #indiegamedeveloper

🆓🟨 FREE domestic shipping and NO tariffs on Playdate purchases through November 30! Buy now and lock in this low, low price for your holiday order. ⚠️ play.date/shop

🔻 The Catalog Fall Sale is happening NOW! 200+ games are discounted. PLUS, pick up any of these for cheaper: ✌️ Season 2. Bundle of 13 games for $31! 🐛 Each S2 game is discounted individually. 📡 Blippo+ is $8 now?? play.date/games Grab them before Nov 13!

🌅 A Playdate Update is on the horizon! Tune in for a sneak peek at upcoming games for Playdate and look back on some of the stand out titles of 2025 💫 📅 Thursday at 10 AM PT 📺 live.panic.com

Some more progress ongoing to Life's Too Short HD. Still very rough but it's looking super nice! #indiegamedeveloper

This was an absolute pleasure to be a part of! 15 games from some of the top names in @play.date Pulp development for FREE! Tricks and treats galore for this Halloween! #indiegamedeveloper

This was an absolute pleasure to be a part of! 15 games from some of the top names in @play.date Pulp development for FREE! Tricks and treats galore for this Halloween! #indiegamedeveloper

Oh what's this? A new trailer for a new Treat? Just in time for Halloween? youtu.be/UxgN88_cjmg

Sooooo many good games. Get on it!

It's still mega early days but here's a look at how Life's Too Short HD is looking after rebuilding everything with different artwork. Still not totally sold on all the tiles etc but it looks super cute... #indiegamedeveloper #godot #gamedev

Treated is part of this Halloween bundle of games. Probably like 6 of my games are Halloween appropriate seeing as I can't stop myself making games about a little ghost: play.date/games/search...

Another Tuesday = ✨Another Catalog Drop✨ #66 to be exact! Check them out at play.date/games or in the Catalog app in your Playdate. Happy Cranking 💫

I completely rebuilt the world for Life's Too Short HD using a different asset pack as this one has so many great tiles I will use on the sequels. It was a lot of work and doesn't look quite as good yet but it'll be worth it... #indiegamedeveloper

Got this finished! "As Dead as a Doris" will be part of @ldbrart.bsky.social's Halloween project. More news soon but this one is really exciting for @play.date owners! #indiegamedeveloper

Now the game functionally works, has some basic animation (that took so long in Pulp...). Final job is to develop the dialog and actually write the story! This has been a really fun little project and can't wait to see everyone else's entries! #indiegamedeveloper @play.date

Now finished with art on this and imported into Pulp. Just the task of programming the systems and figuring out what on earth is going on with the different characters :-D Mostly this has been just drawing what comes to mind first to hit the deadline.. #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev @play.date

Watch this and tell me that anyone truly cares about or connects with purely AI generated art: youtu.be/SKUX8RyXmrM?... Once we get over this fad, we’ll all go back to realising that we love art created by people because we can really feel it.

Need to get crackalacking on this but I plan to feature something for this awesome little project!

It's obviously mega rough and that portrait is placeholder but Dialogic is a really nice system to work with in Godot. Once I've got this to a good place, I can start bringing in a bunch of the script from the original game 👌 #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev

Great write up! Making games is hard but not impossible. Folks get into it from various angles but this story of someone with a dream ending up releasing a game as wonderful as Echo should be inspiring to all wannabe game devs!

If you read all this, thank you and I'm sorry it was so long-winded. If you're like me and wanna make games, hopefully this was another little anecdote you can stick in your back pocket to convince yourself it's doable. It's defo, 100% doable.

Spent maaaaany hours getting through a #godot tutorial on dialog and quest systems and then discovered Dialogic. At least I learned something along the way...right? :-D #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev

itch.io/blog/1067240... read up on my first experience as an indie dev running a stall at a games convention. @panic.com @play.date @uncrankdpd.bsky.social @helloplaydate.bsky.social #playdate #indiedev #playexpoblackpool

@elliottcoe.bsky.social has shared a few new shots of the house he's building for our game The Last Cup of Tea, set in our childhood home! www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm... #godot #indiegamedeveloper #gamedev

Big fan of this episode! This was a great insightful chat with @jondenton.bsky.social and also conjured lots of nice memories from when I was working as a PR at the start of my career. Great podcast!