Got my Playdate yesterday! Initial impressions have me swooning over the playfulness of the crank and form factor, and drooling over the motion resolution of the screen - no ghosting!
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Enjoy 
Community Awards 2022
3PM PST
An hour from now!
I won an award at the above, Technical Achievement for Daily Driver. Great! It should release this year.
Working on some smaller games, and Sparrow Solitaire final update should ship soon.
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Playdate now has an on-device (and on-web) store called Catalog with 16 games featured at launch.
More info: Playdate Catalog
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Reviews of all games in Catalog, not written by me.
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Wow, well done! Congratulations!
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Nice one,! Good to see the hardworking being rewarded.
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Congrats! Itās amazing that youāve got other games in the pipeline too
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Well deserved! Definitely the best use of physics on the system to date and Iāve only played the demo!
Still no final driving game.
BUT
Final version of Sparrow Solitaire is out. $10
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Oh cool! Was that a level editor at the end?
Looks more fleshed out than the demo build Iāve been playing.
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Yes, built-in level editor and full modding/user-generated-content capability!
This final version makes the early version feel like a demo. If you bought the early version on itch this is a free update.
During prototyping and development we played a ton of Mahjong Solitaire games on everything from original Macintosh (the first Shanghai), through variations on almost every other platform including PC Engine, Gameboy, Windows, Atari Lynx, 3DS, SNES, MD, Switch, X6800 and more. We decided that we could confidently set new ground and we think youāll agree that we did!
We believe this is the first retail quality game on Playdate in terms of scope, features, polish and game feel. 10 music tracks, 13 tilesets, 25 backgrounds, and 200+ layouts. Be sure to check out the changelog!
Canāt wait. Sounds like you guys worked hard on it. I dig the idea of the 2 player update too. How do I redeem the free update? Is it through the itch website then sideload it?
Edit: also I really hope they release the magnetic desk stand soon for Playdate. I donāt know why but I need that custom pen. It makes no sense since Iāll literally never write with it. But it just looks so nice as a unit for a desk.
P.S. Just got the Catalogue for playdate (aka the on-system storefront for games that just released for those that donāt know). The music is incredible - weāre talking Wii Store levels of good if not better.
And Sparrow Solitare is prominently featured as the third tile 
Additional Edit: Never mind re: above. I was able to side load the full Sparrow Solitaire update for free from Itch. Itās downloading now. 
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Playdate roll call
Is it just me and @Peltz?
Iām looking for people whoād like to kick the treads of my latest game.
Based on a recent X68000 indie game by a guy I know, andwith his blessing, Iāve made my own take on the concept for Playdate. Iām drawing all the graphics through filled shapes! No bitmaps loaded at all.
Iāll have to add some for the launcher card eventually.
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Iād love to play it. Looks interesting.
If you order now, youāll get your unit in December!
Another game from me.
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Does anybody want to test my latest game (see above)? @Peltz ?
Who else has got a Playdate? If you order now youāll get it in time for Christmas.
Two new games out on Catalog over the next month.
YOYOZO on 21st November
And
Fore! Track on 5th December
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Super happy with this!
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If youāre interested in the details I wrote a blog post about how I made the game. Itās only 39KB which is smaller than the 40KB of first NES ROMs.
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/11/21/yoyozo-how-i-made-a-playdate-game-in-39kb/
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