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A screenshot showing a browser window running a simple Playdate Pulp game. The header reads "Zest - A web runtime for Pulp games".

More tinkering with Pulp today! 🍋 Template game is running smoothly already, now implementing the remaining PulpScript functions in JS... #Playdate #Gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

original was fantastic. just got the new version too!

A Fool’s Errand — our latest game for @play.date — is out now!

Get it now: play.date/games/a-fool...

Learn more: www.iorama.studio/afoolserrand

www.thegamecrafter.com/games/hall-o...

HALL of the DWARF KING - Print&Cut/ART - Rolled Poster - $20.00 - LedbetterART Buy this product for only $20.00

ledbetterart.printify.me/product/2175...

I finally cut apart and framed the giant Hall of the Dwarf King art - you can buy this poster from the shop and cut apart your own game board or get a full tabletop box set from theGameCrafter 👑

Trains! (and menu system logic)
StarBento!

#playdate #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #trains

this looks fantastic!

Big ups to Blippo+ for being the wildest thing I experienced last year - and now getting rightful recognition!

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Mad City — Playdate: The Unofficial Website Darlin’ don’t you go and drive your car

First Playdate Unofficial of the new year? It's Mad City, a game from 2022 about how bad it is to drive in a city. www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/mad-city

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

something like an exquisite corpse but with 52 writers 🤣

I love the idea of cards as a narrative device. Now I'm thinking of how it turns out when you shuffle them.

Mousegun is a fantastic action game with procedural elements for the Playdate. It's finally up on Catalog. Go get it!

Poignant and wonderful little story with daily elements. Subdivision is finally out on Catalog!

Playdate Arcade Showcase - YouTube Interesting games that show off the Playdate and the Arcade system built by Dave from Panic Fantastic Arcade post https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaydateConsole/co...

Just added a bunch of new YouTube shorts to the PD Arcade Playlist. These are some of my favorite games on the @play.date that can be described in under 3 mins 🤣

Feel free to comment to be featured in the next round of these

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I've played a bit of this and will Absolutely be picking up the full version on Catalog tomorrow

Love to see an update from this absolute incredible looking @play.date game

This still looks amazing and is one of my most anticipated games

📡 Planet Blip’s Best Earthlings of 2025! ❤️

We’d like to take a moment to thank some early supporters who took a risk in shouting out our unapologetically experimental independent project. We’re new to this wild world of games and you all made us weirdos feel welcome.

Thank you! 🧵

the very kind folks at stripe — our good (corporate) friends who power the financial parts of playdate and playdate catalog — stopped by our office and made a nice little playdate video for us.

thank you stripe! onward to 2026!

Thank you!

www.thegamecrafter.com/games/hall-o...

Hall Of The Dwarf King for Playdate You were knocked out, and your party is stranded in the Dungeon of N'ven. You Cannot move. This is not a Dungeon Crawler, but a Dungeon Puzzler! Survive until you meet the Dwarf King. He may free you....

play.date/games/hall-o...

Lots of gratitude for the @play.date community in supporting Hall of the Dwarf King - OVER 650 SALES and counting!

Today's its day on the Playdate Advent Calendar, it's on Sale on Catalog and the tabletop version is helping folks share the Playdate experience!

playdateadvent.com#/calender/20...

I love seeing the tabletop get into hands! Please always share pics of products from artists and small creators. It's extremely fulfilling to see 🎁

Beautiful tablescape btw

The more you play, the more you'll know. And the king will find you worthy 👑

a cartoon of two ghosts holding a heart and sending extra love ALT: a cartoon of two ghosts holding a heart and sending extra love

What a year! Wrapping things up for 2025 with a thoroughly empty tank:
- Launched Shadowgate PD as part of @play.date S2
- Part of Ware-wolf Campfire Stories with @ldbrart.bsky.social
- Announced LTS for Steam
- Secret work on a @play.date project

Thanks to everyone involved!

#indiegamedeveloper