Heads up! We’re about to make some shifts to Playdate’s production — no, none to Playdate itself — which means a factory pause. Soon, Playdate will be temporarily "sold out”. Once we're back up, more stock will start to arrive later this year. But if you want a Playdate soon… now's the time to buy!

So, in my little #playdate game Triston, when you complete a level, it has a little throwaway feature where it shows you the name of the place you've helped discover. #gamedev #indiegames

People seem to be mentioning icecream

🟨🟨🟨 Triston - Playdate gameplay + impressions 🟨🟨🟨 youtu.be/n-vSwrrzka8 #playdate

Triston - releasing this Tuesday, 23rd of June on Playdate youtu.be/mltTEmWL3A8 #playdate #gamedev #indiegames #DisregardTheFog

$20,000 worth of royalty free commercial use video game music: moonanagames.itch.io/81-song-pack Get it now for only $10, tell your friends and share the post (ps: if you already bought 80 song pack, this is 81 new songs from elektrobear)

Triston, my little, slightly weird match-3-citybuilder-interactive-soundscape for @play.date is releasing in less than a week - he's another trailer showing some more gameplay www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8q... #gamedev #playdate #indiegames #BewareOfTheForests

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC

Dog Date

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Here's some random gameplay footage of the little Match 3 town builder puzzle game I've been working on for the last couple of months. Triston is coming soon to @play.date #playdate #gamedev #indiegames #pixelart

I know, I know... AI datacenters sucking up every bit of RAM, GPUs, HDDs (and water) is pretty bad. But on the other hand, future AAA games might look cool like this, instead of chasing this endless, unsustainable bit of photorealism.

Well you know what day it is! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9J...

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

TIL about the most awesome and surely incredibly dangerous airplane concept en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborn...

Life imitates Art again - One of the plots in @aptshadow.bsky.social 's excellent Service Model is the AI getting more and more bogged down with long and contradictory to-do lists which it can never help to resolve, but has to keep checking anyway

At a discounted! Sigh!

Only a couple of days left to pick up sing-song ding-dong at a discounted! Take the role of <unnamed>, cast out from the village for their utter inability to sing anything. Complete the four trials, beat the horrific bosses, and collect all the gems! play.date/g/sings/ #playdate #indiegaming

I'm massively proud of these tree identification pins and really hoping people will see them. Truly my most practical #SciArt so far! 🌳🌍🧪 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

My little 80s retro platformer is currently 33% off! play.date/games/sing-s... #playdate #gaming

@itch.io @leafo.itch.io Hi, could someone please sort out/reset a payment for me - it's been stuck in Paypal limbo (due to an email address change) since November Payout ID: 203507 Support request: 326024, 335123 Thanks

Micheal Martin

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

You Can Do It*

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

Only 4 hours left now!! Last chance, give it a like/share so no one misses out!

If you got a new Playdate console for Christmas, or have had one for some time, my little retro indie playformer released in December, providing over fifty screens of singing-at-beasties-and-jumping-on-their-heads action. #gaming #playdate

The true essence of the Turkey!

OMG the best 2 hour slow documentary is BACK BABY

happy holi-raes! from now until the end of 2025 PT, get ALL MY GAMES on sale! rowbot for $12! cloudburst or lunatrix for $4! bona fido, first in... line?, and traffic jam for $3! see 'em all on #playdate: play.date/games/search... HEXA is also only $6 on playdate and PC! itch.io/s/171780/hap...

OpenAI for Cu.... oh, Countries. Sorry

The time has come to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the 2025 @play.date Community Awards! Nominations start now and close on the 22nd of December, so get to it! The form can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Join our community Discord here: discord.gg/zFKagQ2

Incoming! The dog is now picking up some Festive Frequencies! 🐕🌪️🎄 The FESTIVE UPDATE for Dogspinner, an important tool by me and @todepond.com, is here for December only! Play it here: Pigenpalace.com

#playdate Advent Calendar DAY 11: playdateadvent.com Advent Haiku: Winter’s Trials in Song Snow hides secret notes, Voices rise through frosted trials, Joy returns in rhyme. Hint: Song youtu.be/tfuKHNf1nxk #supportplaydatedevs

④ Turfed out of your home for your awful singing, you must pass the four trials and defeat the Mysterious Monsters! Retrieve the four Mysterious Musical Notes and collect the Mysterious Gems so that your songs might become a bit less awful to the rest of the village. 🎵 play.date/games/sing-...

5 new games (plus 2 past games,🎄Christmas themed!) are out now in Catalog! See what's 🆕 via your Playdate or visit 👉 play.date/games

In a long ago place, in a far away time, The villagers cast out one whose song didn't rhyme... Defeat the Mysterious Monsters! Retrieve the four Mysterious Musical Notes and collect the Mysterious Gems! sing-song ding-dong out now on @play.date Catalog play.date/games/sing-s... #playdate #gaming

This year everyone is getting a tail sock!

Know your finches? 🤔 Whether an experienced birder or new to nature we want you to help us count Birds in Greenspaces next year 🪶 Our FREE resource pack provides ID guides to 30 bird species. Sign up to the newsletter to receive it at www.bto.org/greenspaces Illustrations by @willrose.bsky.social

Launching tomorrow, on @play.date Catalog and @itch.io

@johanpeitz.com Do you think picocad could work on the Playdate? Main difficulties are likely to be the 1bit screen, and only dpad/a/b inputs (though it does have that crank... camera rotation?)

Just over a month now until my little retro indie platformer releases on @play.date #playdate #IndieGame #IndieDev #Platformer #Retro #ComingSoon

A brand new UK TV #archaeology series starts TONIGHT Tues 4 November 9pm on More4 With #SandiToksvig @rakshadigs.bsky.social and the students of @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social HUZZAH !! 🥳 Available for download after on Channel 4 #4OD 👇

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

one day left of the autumn sale! share the post and let your friends know! moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack #gamedev #indiedev #ttrpg

Because of AWS I couldn't have a shower this morning. (actually, that's because I regrouted the bathroom and it needs to dry, but thanks Geoff Amazon!)