![]() ![]() … and it looks like there is a headphone jack No backlight (okay, so kind of a pain for handheld chip music performance) And it does look cute.Ĥ00×240 (that’s way more resolution than the original Game Boy), black and white screen ![]() nanoloop got its own handheld iteration recently – see below – but this would be a natural hardware platform too.Įven barring that, though, I imagine some dovetailing audiences for this. The obvious crossover at some point would be some unusual music games and without question some kind of music creation tool – like nanoloop or LittleGPTracker. I mean, first, music and indie games naturally go hand in hand, and from the very start of CDM, the game community have been into strange music stuff. And this is where I might imagine this whole thing dovetailing with music. The really interesting twist here is that the “Playdate” title is a reference to games that appear weekly. (Clarification: I should say publishing as these involved outside partners – they’re officially listed as “in collaboration” with those developers, though it does seem they were fairly hands-on.) I’ve been a Panic owner over the years, having used their FTP and Web dev products early on in CDM’s life, as did a couple of my designers, and even messing around with Mac icons obsessively back in the day.īut now Panic are publishing games – the spooky Wyoming mystery Firewatch, which has earned them some real street cred, and an upcoming thing with a goose. The handheld hardware comes from Panic, the long-time Mac and iOS developer. ![]() This isn’t a Teenage Engineering product, though – and here’s the even more surprising part. And TE have already demonstrated their love of cranks on their synths, the OP-1 and OP-Z. Yes, that svelte retro industrial look and unmistakable hand crank are the influence of prolific Swedish game house Teenage Engineering. And it comes from an unlikely collaboration: Mac/iOS developer Panic with synth maker Teenage Engineering. Playdate is a Game Boy-ish gaming handheld with a hand crank on it, wired for delivering indie and experimental games weekly. ![]()
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