augustravaganza 2026 is live NOW! #playdate it's a nice big community sale to ring in the new month. 2024 and 2025 went great, and we have over 80(!) games participating this time! if you wanna see all the participating games, visit catalog on your playdate, or head to: 🟨 play.date/games/tags/o...

🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️ Turnip Mountain is OUT NOW!! 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️ 🎮 Play it on PC, Switch, PS4/5 and Xbox! 👥 Go it alone, or bring a friend in local co-op! 🎶 Banger soundtrack by IsabelleChiming!

#playdate now supports Japanese! Despite not being in the video, our story-driven rhythm game Agents of Groove has supported Japanese and four more languages since launch. If your Playdate system language is set to Japanese, the game will automatically mirror that setting on your first playthrough!

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Playdate。日本語になりました。 Playdate. Now in Japanese. Settings > System > System Update 3.1

Playdate。日本語になりました。 Playdate. Now in Japanese. Settings > System > System Update 3.1

I was told you couldn't do 3D on the Playdate, so I did it. Then I was told there was no way I could create exterior levels like those in Mirror's Edge, so I proved them wrong again.

🆕 NEW! in Playdate Catalog today: 🟨 Waiting for Odysseus 🟨 ROTOLLA MONO 🟨 Hahakigami 🟨 Sugar Cookie Mountain Check them out here play.date/games or in your Playdate! ✨

Playdate Catalog Games: Catalog

Our curated selection of amazing Playdate games

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No crank? No problem. Playdate originals reimagined for Steam 💫 Featuring... 📺 Blippo+ 🛸 HEXA 🥌 office chair curling 👾 Ratcheteer DX ☄️ Suborbital Salvage Grab the Beyond the Crank bundle at 10% off ⬇️ 🛒 store.steampowered.com/bundle/7499...

Comet has some new key art, and I LOVE IT! It was a lot of fun to work with @mekadow.bsky.social to explore Stella's design again and make some new art that represents her and the mood of the game a little more closely. This was spurred on by a push from @spaceindie.bsky.social...

Excited to see The Odyssey this weekend?? While you’re waiting for the show to start, why don’t you check out Eye to Eye, a Playdate exclusive action-platformer directly inspired by The Odyssey’s story of a man fighting to make his way back to his love of his life?!

small handheld. big ben.

small handheld. big ben.

👋We've got 4 wonderfully chaotic Catalog games to share with you today. All available in the Catalog app on your Playdate, or via the web at play.date/catalog 💛

it is very wild to me that this is possible (via www.reddit.com/r/PlaydateCo...)

Heads up! We’re about to make some shifts to Playdate’s production — no, none to Playdate itself — which means a factory pause. Soon, Playdate will be temporarily "sold out”. Once we're back up, more stock will start to arrive later this year. But if you want a Playdate soon… now's the time to buy!

Small addition to the Catalog website: developers can now make Studio pages, showing all their Playdate titles. Check out some heavy hitters: 🐈‍⬛ play.date/games/studios/com.scenicroute 🐰 play.date/games/studios/wtf.rae ✋ play.date/games/studios/com.amano

It's a great day to be a Playdate owner. This week's Catalog Drop has something for everyone 💛 Have a look below and check out play.date/games or see it all right inside of your Playdate. Enjoy!!

It's here! Eye To Eye, the incredible single screen Pulp platformer by @clap-clapp.bsky.social with music by me is available on Catalog! play.date/games/eye-to...

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Scour the land to help a narrow-sighted cyclops find his way home and reunite with his love in this single-screen action platformer developed exclusively for the Playdate! Play as the eyeball of the b...

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I launched the first multiplayer RPG for @play.date, PointlessQuest a week ago. The response has been kinda mindblowing: - 270 players have scored at least 1XP - Average of 80 returning players a day - Lots of community stories of grouping up and helping each other. #playdate #indiegame #mmorpg

Check out this custom Playdate!! Last year, I released Tiny Turnip - it won Game Of The Year and Best Adventure Game in the Community Awards, and the swag's just come in the post. @play.date even bundled a new Playdate with a custom decal! #gamdev #indiedev

This month, ☄️Comet got a big visual upgrade! guv-bubbs.itch.io/comet/devlog... In this blog post we share how we made our light feel more organic and add a bit of sparkle. As well as a brief retrospective on all the previous lighting systems comet has had. #playdate #1bit #Indiegames #gamedev

hello! all of my #playdate games are on sale in catalog! • rowbot rally — my loving, experimental story game — is just $10! • HEXA — an addicting match-six logic puzzle game — only $5! • cloudburst — an on-line weather app?! — just $3! and more!! running until 06.30.2026. play.date/games/search...

Good news: 5 more games 🛬 in Catalog.....last week but we're posting them here, today, okay?! Play.date/games

The CrankBoy main dev is pleased with the swag he received from the @play.date Community Awards and wants to thank everyone involved in the awards.

Magical Spells ✅ Mystical Mazes ✅ Rubber Duckies ✅ an Unexpected Jukebox ✅ Pottery for Playdate ✅ What doesn't this Catalog drop have?! See for yourself at Play.date/games and/or crank over to Catalog on your Playdate 🟨 💫

My book Make Games for @play.date with Lua is finally done after 18 months of writing and revising! It's now available on all ebook retailers. The book is written for beginners, covering the key concepts of game programming, Lua, and the Playdate SDK. pdbook.net

Make Games for Playdate with Lua

A fun introduction to game programming with Lua and the Playdate SDK by Brett Chalupa.

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did you know @play.date recently got a full-speed Game Boy emulator on its store and the community is ROM hacking some games to add Playdate specific features and updates? 🤯 (video by @bb.wavelengths.online youtube.com/shorts/xAXg7...)

🔼 HEXA is OUT NOW on #steam! the best thing since the hexagon (maybe) is here...a cosmically-good match-six puzzle game. with addicting gameplay, bundles of modes, & dozens of "missions" (you can even make your own!) + achievements, leaderboards, & more! YAY! store.steampowered.com/app/4581230/...

I tried something different: I made the first devlog for my Playdate game prototype, starting all the way back at the beginning. I hope you like it. Let me know if you’d like me to keep using this format, and I’d love to hear any feedback you have. saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/de...

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A few months ago, I got a Playdate handheld. What's a Playdate, you may ask? This thing: After playing around with it for a bit, I started thinking about ideas for a small, fun prototype. Since it use...

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Hello!! Come get your Catalog Drop!! Have a look at the 5 games that just joined Catalog — the Playdate games store that lives inside your Playdate — Enjoy 👋 Play.date/games 👾

New Atlantic ‘41 devlog about depth charges and sound effects. stephanrewind.itch.io/atlantic-41/...