[alexpls]

I've been playing around with the Playdate SDK (https://sdk.play.date) over the holidays and it's awesome for small games like the author describes.

Working with a tiny 1-bit screen and ~150MHz CPU puts some serious constraints on what you can do, which I've found to be pretty freeing (less analysis paralysis, more doing...)

[j0hnyl]

first i'm hearing about this platform. how poppular is it? seems so obscure.

[cableshaft]

A Playdate game, Yoyozo, actually made Ars Technica's best games of 2023 list. Looks to be a bit of a small game like this.

I have one, it's fun to play with, and I have one of my games working on it, although I don't think it's good enough to release yet.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-vi...

[sp332]

They sold over 50,000 of them in the first year (by May 2023). Maybe we'll get another sales update this year.