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Flat, bubbly promotional poster with a yellow background and green accents. "2025 Playdate Community Augustravaganza! Over 60 games on sale, across all genres and styles! Runs from August 1st to August 7th, pacific time." There's a link to the catalog sale page, and a variety of Playdate game thumbnails lining the bottom of the frame.

the second installment of the playdate community sale, augustravaganza 2025, is here!! over 60 titles, on sale all week!

head to play.date/games/tags/o... to see what's on sale — something from your wishlist? something you've never even heard of? — and pick up some new games to ring out the summer!

Americans will use anything but the metric system 😔

“large-scale persistent online open-world first-person shooter” something everybody can get behind

So do you use “supplier” or “cook” when referring to yourself

“You wouldn’t steal a Shai-hulud”

I was half expecting to run into your mecha booth there already :D

Really nice post :) and congrats on the launch!

TLS connections can be a bit slow on Playdate, so I'm trying out a (2-tier!) cache mechanism for my Gopher/Gemini browser 🤓 #ScreenshotSaturday

HYPE

Rotate the font ahead of time and draw all text like
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Weird yeah, I'll manage with a proxy or just use http in that case :)

Yep, DNS appears fine too, just never reaches the host for some reason. Firewall maybe?

Timing out over telnet it seems?

Y’all work on games?! 🥲

Haha bet! It’s bit tricky to host admittedly, but it’s a great space to explore / get lost in :D

Added bookmarks to my Playdate browser, what a time to be alive! #ScreenshotSaturday

I do love how this automatically gives you a “preview” of each level. Wonder how feasible it’d be to reuse the same image for a (mini) map.

Tired: LDtk / Wired: MS Paint

Doctors HATE him!!

Makes sense! I’m pretty sure you’d have the same experience with any alternatives. They’re all really simple—provided you already know the complex stuff :’)

Interesting read! Were there any other SSGs on your radar? (And if so what made you pick Eleventy?)

YouTube video by YourCoolUncleMarisa Cool Uncle's Corner: My Favorite Playdate Games not in Season 1

I've been AWOL for a minute but I finally released a new video! This one's for the #playdate crowd 💛

I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.

Slowly but surely bringing the small web to Playdate! 🌐 Gopher and Gemini fully working now, might still add Finger for good measure #ScreenshotSaturday

Nice! Is that using Sprites by any chance yet? 👀

Conversely I keep trying to make my JS functions “local” after doing a lot of Lua

The best Playdate games for 2025 Here are some of the best games available on the Playdate Catalog. That includes puzzles, platformers, shoot ‘em ups, dungeon crawlers and high score chasers too strange to categorize.

“Voidblazers may be my favorite shooter I’ve tried so far for Playdate.” — straight from Engadget, folks! 🤩

Absolutely thrilled to be featured alongside these incredible games www.engadget.com/gaming/best-...

Yupp, that’s how I started this whole thing 😅

Working on a Gopher & Gemini browser for Playdate 🛜 #ScreenshotSaturday #SmallWeb

A Playdate showing the title card of “Voidblazers” on its screen. On the left is a sticker that reads “The Playdate Community Awards 2024”. A yellow award rosette sticks to the top right of the device. Cosmeau looms in the background.

Just found this delicious cookie in the mail! 🏅 Shoutout to Paul Straw for all the effort and care he put into these, and the rest of the @play.date community for making the Awards possible 💜