I ordered my Playdate last week, and it arrived today. I am having a blast with it so far. Highly recommend it. The build quality is really solid, and the software is snappy and fast. Seriously, get yourself one of these.
- JovialSodium ( @JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ) 10•5 months ago
Link for reference. https://play.date/
- zagaberoo ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) 4•5 months ago
In between waiting for new games from season one, don’t forget to check out all the cool free games and ports you can sideload from itch.io! I love the port of the original Celeste.
I have that one already, and it’s great. But yeah, the Playdate category on itch.io has 900 entries. It’s a bit overwhelming, to be honest.
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 2•5 months ago
Looks interesting , but it has a $200 price tag and while I love old school games, I can buy a $30 gadget that has hundreds of the old games I used to play.
Also, the crank should be able to charge it, that would help with the price tag, you could throw it in a bug out bag
- zagaberoo ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) 4•5 months ago
The playdate is not meant to replace an emulator and buckets of roms. It’s its own game console with lots of great new games made by passionate devs.
I’ve played more of the 24 pack-in games than I’ve ever spent time actually playing with the multiple emulator station consoles I’ve set up over the years. I love seeing what new games devs put out on the catalog, too. No in-app-purchases or any such BS, so devs just have to try and make a game that’s worth your couple bucks up front.
The creative constraints of the 1-bit color and limited inputs push games in fun directions too. The crank is amazing as an analog rotation input, which has been missing from game consoles since the early 80s. Steering and aiming with the crank is so fluid and intuitive that it really adds to immersion.
It’s not the kind of thing everyone’s going to get $200 of value out of, but if it happens to be up your alley its truly incredible.
- trev likes godzilla ( @godzilla_lives@beehaw.org ) 3•5 months ago
From my understanding, it’s meant to be more like an art piece than a simple games emulator.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English2•5 months ago
The season is really fun, enjoy!
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•5 months ago
Panic Software used to sell a cool tshirt with their logo. It was one of my favorite shirts but shrunk before I knew how to do laundry correctly.