Playdate Mailbag #1
10/11/22 • 14 min
Host Christa Mrgan answers listener questions from Twitter, Reddit, and the Playdate Squad Discord. Did Panic ever consider a left-handed model for Playdate? What games or apps surprised us by doing something we didn’t think was possible? And what’s up with Bluetooth? Listen now to find out!
Show Notes
- Steven Frank’s Playdate post (Gopher)
- Steven Frank’s Playdate post (read in browser via Floodgap)
- Playdate Podcast Episode 1: The Story of Playdate
- Link to Playdate Dimensions document via the developer forum
- Printables.com projects tagged “Playdate”
- Daily Driver devlog
- Daily Driver posts on Twitter
- Zachary Snyder’s 3D Engine for Playdate
- Zachary Synder’s on-device 3D level editor(!!)
- Thread of awesome third-party games for Playdate
- Fort Atlantic on Bandcamp
Host Christa Mrgan answers listener questions from Twitter, Reddit, and the Playdate Squad Discord. Did Panic ever consider a left-handed model for Playdate? What games or apps surprised us by doing something we didn’t think was possible? And what’s up with Bluetooth? Listen now to find out!
Show Notes
- Steven Frank’s Playdate post (Gopher)
- Steven Frank’s Playdate post (read in browser via Floodgap)
- Playdate Podcast Episode 1: The Story of Playdate
- Link to Playdate Dimensions document via the developer forum
- Printables.com projects tagged “Playdate”
- Daily Driver devlog
- Daily Driver posts on Twitter
- Zachary Snyder’s 3D Engine for Playdate
- Zachary Synder’s on-device 3D level editor(!!)
- Thread of awesome third-party games for Playdate
- Fort Atlantic on Bandcamp
Previous Episode
Hyper Meteor
Mo Fikree—designer, developer, and CEO of Vertex Pop—talks about why he loves arcade-style games, and the ups and downs of creating the “Asteroids” homage “Hyper Meteor”, including one of the hardest parts of programming: naming things!
Show Notes
- Mo Fikree on Twitter
- Robby Duguay on Twitter
- Halina Heron on Bandcamp
- Vertex Pop on Twitter
- Vertex Pop
- Asteroids on Wikipedia
- Play Asteroids on the AARP Website
- Plastic Fern
- Ground Kontrol
- MAME
- Super Hexagaon
- Teenage Engineering
- Panic Podcast
- Playdate Podcast Episode 1: The Story of Playdate
- Hyper Meteor game page on Playdate’s website
- Episode Transcript
Next Episode
Questy Chess
How Dadako founder Hawken King fused his interests in role-playing games and chess into a minimalist, atmospheric puzzle game, with help from artist Dan Clarke and musician-turned-sound designer Justin DiCenzo. As the sole surviving pawn from an outmoded chess program, trapped in an ominous machine, can you use an old rule set in new ways to stave off the oblivion of being overwritten?
Show Notes
- Dadako’s website
- Hawken King on Twitter
- Dan Clarke’s website
- Questy Chess soundtrack by Justin DiCenzo
- Justin DiCenzo on Soundcloud
- Nova
- Koto
- Shamisen
- Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering
- Edge Magazine issue featuring Playdate
- Tiled Software
- Intro to Bauhaus by Kelly Richman-Abdou on My Modern Met
- Caps Tool
- Playdate Pulp
- Playdate SDK
- Train Chase Scene from “The Wrong Trousers”
- Questy Chess game page on Playdate’s website
- Episode Transcript
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