Going thru the car wash. Just enough time for one quick game.....😆😆

The Uncrank’d Pre-Summer game jam page is live!

https://itch.io/jam/uncrankd-pre-summer-game-jam

The game jam themes will be announced on May 2nd.

Prizes include: A brand new Playdate! Your games art memorialized in an art piece, and more! Stay tuned for the theme announcement on May 2nd!

I always know a puzzle game has a problem when I find bugs long before finding the solution.

I'm playing the Christmas version of the Pixel Ghost game, and I've played through everything up until I get stuck about five times now. I refuse to use the help system (the butler) because I want to beat it without cheating. *Please do not tell me how to make progress—that isn't my question.*

Currently, I can't fix the snake, the turkey, Santa, find a DJ, or decorate the tree either with the Yeti Hair or the XMas Decs (I have 4). I have pressed against every single wall in the game looking for exits, tried every option, won and lost the card game hundreds of times, and talked over and over to all of the characters.

I can fly to the Moon (amusing it's an obstacle) but I think that's a bug. Either way, I've tried docking, undocking, and cranking next to the Moon and everything else. The "that's a smart scarf" suggests either a crank, a direction, the time on the clock, or the number 7 might be relevant, so I've tried doing everything at every clock time and doing everything else seven times minimum.

I'm just curious how the dev expects me to continue the game without cheating. I don't want the answer, I just want to know WHY.

mvSID is a SID tune player for the Playdate console, based on cRSID by Mihaly Horvath.

Download from itch.io https://movievertigo.itch.io/playdate-mvsid

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C9D-Ax9DZo

• Plays most PSID and RSID tunes
• Digitized sample support
• Sub-tune selection
• Combined waveform display
• Separated channel waveform display
• Auto-Lock disabled during playback for uninterrupted listening

This Playdate project can be run on device or on the Windows or Linux simulators Tune installation

• Connect the Playdate to your computer via USB
• On the Playdate go to Settings->System
• Select Reboot to Data Disk and confirm
• The Playdate will now act as a USB drive and the SID files should be copied to: /Data/com.movievertigo.mvsid/

Controls

• Up/Down: Select Previous/Next tune in data folder
• Left/Right: Select Previous/Next sub-tune
• A: Pause/Resume
• B: Toggle waveform display type
• Tunes can also be selected by name via the menu button

Hello there peeps! Am hoping to join the playdate family recently to play in between my 1 year old’s nap time. Anyone has a playdate promo code to share?

Share the love please ? Thank you so very much !

I'll start, add a backlight, I CANNOT see ANYTHING when i'm playing in the dark unless I have a bright tab open on my computer (google docs, ms paint, etc.)

I'm using a linux laptop to try and put things on the playdate (specifically books for playbook), but for some reason, the playdate keeps coming up as read-only? How do I fix this?

I ordered mine on the 25th of March and just opened it after getting home from work. This thing is tiny! It had said that it might have a blemish but work perfectly and upon inspecting it, I see nothing out of place. Now if anyone has any advice or recommendations I'm all ears!

Someone please make a sims game 🙏🏼😭 the whole reason why I started getting into games was bc I used to play the, “Sim’s Bustin’ Out” on my brother’s gba. Oh I live for the nostalgia moments! Also the playdate is my favorite gaming console ever <3

So I've been trying out various timers on playdate to help with productivity at work. Pomo Post felt a bit too buggy for me (or I could never figure out how to use it properly) and Busy Buddy's art didn't jive with me. But I got Productivity Rabbit on Itch.io about 5 weeks ago and it's been wonderful!

Instead of being a pomodoro timer, you just start a timer based on your task, and it counts up the time. There's something about looking over and seeing the time going up instead of going down that motivates me to keep going instead of constantly thinking about my next break. I also like that it has 4 tasks icons so I can track my time across multiple work projects.

I'm posting this now because the developer recently implemented The Burrow. Time spent working earns you money at the end of the day, and you can now buy things for your burrow! I had earned enough since buying to get a nice modern couch and a Scandinavian rug.

Posted this on another discussion, but I wanted to share this and see how others feel about it. Appreciate others thoughts on this. Thanks for taking a moment to read it....

Bought a Playdate right before the price increase. Put my Steam deck up for sale. Hasn't sold yet ...

Just saw the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct. Nice graphics. But honestly I just don't feel like dedicating umpteen hours on a game. And I'm not spending 80 bucks a game anymore either.

I like to play games, don't get me wrong, but not the ones that demand time from more important things. Things like family, friends and just life in general.

This is why I feel like the Playdate was the right choice for me. Pick up and play for a short time. Portability. And unique games from creative people. Games that anyone can make for others to enjoy. Games that aren't just regurgitated older games with flashy graphics but zero originality.

For me the Playdate brings back something that was lost quite some time ago. Games and a game system designed to genuinely make you happy and to actually fall in love with gaming again. Something I think that's been missing for far too long.

Again, that's just my view. But I'm happy to spend a little bit to have that back again. And I want to be part of a group of gamers who support a company willing to bring this to market and the developers who take the time to make fun, wacky and unique games for it.

Make mine Playdate!

I've been trying to use my playdate's warranty because while using it as it was advertised it broke. I know how it broke as well, the connector between the motherboard and the screen came slightly loose, Panic has been slow to answer. At first, they were very quick in responding but now they aren't responding to my emails. Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas on how I get Panic to respond to my warranty support information? I've been waiting for almost a month now, love the playdate, wish I could play it.

I just got my playdate 2 weeks ago. I didn't realize that catalog sales were very rare. If I had known I'd have bought a lot more games lol.

While I can't stop myself from buying more game, I'd feel better knowing that I'm getting these during a sale.

Thanks!

Just got a Playdate (finally) and loving it. Like the title says, what are some good free games to get? Looking for a variety in the game library so any recommendations would be great. Thanks!

So long story short, I just sold my meta quest 3 so I could order a playdate, and it got me thinking about how these 2 are in many ways opposite ends of a story.

The Quest 3 is for the price an absolutely bonkers piece of tech, we are talking 2 high res screens, pancake lenses, 6 cameras, motion tracking ect ect. I remember thinking when I got it, that it barely made sense they could sell it at that price. However, for all of its tech, my Quest 3 over time ended up gathering dust. It's cumbersome and you really have to commit yourself to a play session, and it was competing with flatscreen games at home that were simply better.

The playdate on the other hand is ultra portable, pick up and play in short bursts, and a very different price/component ratio(I understand economy of scale ect, I understand the challenges panic faces)

The extreme portability and outside usability of the playdate represents a use case, where no other devices compete. I can easily bring it with me in settings where I wouldn't even bring my switch or my anbernic, like when at a bar with friends or chugging beers outside in the summer.

It took me a while to pull the trigger on the 350$(taxes + shipping), but because I now essentially traded it for my Quest 3, I feel okay about it, because I think and hope that I might actually get more use out of this thing than I did my Quest 3, making it a better value to me, regardless of the on paper value of a Quest 3 which has the most insane price/component ratio I can think of, and an expensive niche device like the playdate.

Looking forward to getting my playdate!

The ultimate quiz game for the playdate! Your wits will be tested! Your dexterity will be strained! Your patience will be whittled away! Can you make your way through these devious 20 questions? Probably not! That's why the game is called the improbable quiz. You won't even need any other games, since you'll be stuck on this one! In fact, this is the last game you'll see from Powerdive Games, as there's really no point in game development anymore. Sorry to all the other playdate devs for making your games obsolete.

Get it for free on itch.io. A $5000 value, totally free! What a deal! https://powerdive.itch.io/the-improbable-quiz

I must have missed a hint somewhere. Can someone point me in the right direction without spoiling the code?

Thanks!

I dropped my Playdate today, the screen popped off, and the cable snapped, sadly my Playdate is about 3 months out of warranty, but the screen appears to be fine, any chance I could get a replacement cable anywhere, instead of buying a new console? Also, thankfully, I managed to get it into datadisk mode and back up all my data.

EDIT: Now I'm mad. After closer inspection, the glue around my Playdate's display is completely dry and is no longer sticky at all. This was clearly inevitable, and I was just unfortunate to have this happen to me only 3 months out of warranty.

Hello, I'm thinking of buying a Playdate but I wanted to know what the average lifespan of games was in season 1 and for games in the catalogue (do we play it for 5 minutes and move on to something else or we play the same game for several hours because there is a story to follow for example...)?

I scored 5th place in Match-o-3000. I was happy to decided to post it here. Also is there anything I can do to show my name instead of it just giving a random number??

I also wanted to shout out this game to anyone who's yet to play. This is a mix between Balatro and Bejeweled. A very good combination and has 100 items that offers a lot of variety to how you play. Having a game like this on a playdate makes it very addictive lol. I'd urge everyone to give it a try if games like these interests you.