Tom White

Exactly what I’m going for! Very fond memories of that game I’m trying to bring to Hyper Vector.

Added a log-overdue feature to Hyper Vector: an explorable map.

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screenshot of the app and its icon, showing the "Playdate connected" view listing some key stats about the device

Playdate game developer Keith Baker has created a super handy, unofficial Mac app for managing a Playdate device. Easy access to screenshots, achievements, logs, and lots more. Check out pdmanager!

🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/pdman...

I've made a few improvements to trade in Hyper Vector, completely overhauling the Market to provide much more information, which should make profitable trading much easier. There's also more information in the Manifest on good routes!

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UT!

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 coming to @play.date Catalog on the 9th of December!

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Rob picks the ones that’ll get engagement

A playtesting build is available for Hyper Vector! If you'd like to give this rather rough version a go I'd appreciate any feedback!

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discord.com/channels/675...

Scrollability is hard! I went with scrollbars but not sure if they’re obvious enough, and the arithmetic is awful every time.

I can: £250

The Sunken Bell is an unpleasant pub. Grim men, salt-scarred and edging mania, hold to its tables as if to let go would cast them adrift in some terrible storm. Even the local farm perries cannot compensate for what can only be called an atmosphere of doom. - Hookland Fruit Cider Pub Guide, 1980

Future definite article wife

This is so cool!

Hyper Vector is nearing public playtesting! I'm working my way through the game end-to-end personally first, and finding/fixing a lot of bugs and performance issues.

Device Info is my new friend!

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Y2K Japanese

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

I’d argue nothing tastes worse than a bad can of Surströmming, but to each their own.

I’ve been enjoying watching development of this! Can’t wait to play it.

Fewer updates on Hyper Vector recently, but that's because it's getting close to something play-testable and I've been head-down!

I'm down to a handful of blockers, I've invested a bit of time sorting out perf issues and it now runs smoothly on-device too!

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a drawing of Milhouse from the Simpsons but in the style of the Bauhaus movement captioned everything's coming up Milhaus

I will never apologize for a post

Now it's a bunch of individual sprites for each star, connection and pointer. It's mostly working although I still need to work on the new arithmetic for quest pointers, and I'm getting a few weird artifacts. Seeing only the neccessary parts of the map redraw is worth it though!

Refactoring how the starmap is rendered. Previously it was one sprite with everything drawn onto it - which was eating fps as any kind of update involved a lot of work to run the draw method of the whole thing.

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Bucket seats for lumbar support

Hyper Vector is gradually filling out with more sound effects, the latest is for when you jump between systems. I added a new animation for it too, it feels a bit more like an event now!

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“Stick on 1…”

Klaxon etc.

Alright Socrates

Jensen Button

This is the way

I use an M2 mba is my primary 😂 but making playdate games is not the most intensive.