If you're looking for a 𝟯𝗗 game to play on your Playdate, 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗢𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗡 𝟯𝗗 is now discounted at 6$ on the catalog! The leaderboard is waiting for new challengers... play.date/games/super-...

Playdate@play.date · 2d ago

🍂 The Catalog Fall Sale starts........ NOW! 250+ games are on sale. PLUS, pick up any of these for cheaper: 🤏 Tiny Turnip is half off!! 🥌 office chair curling is only $3! 🏎️ P-Racing for just a buck 💵?! 🛍️ Grab them before Nov 19! ⬇️ play.date/games

Hey! Listen! To the 22-track soundtrack for Agents of Groove on Bandcamp, and if you'd like to help us make more no-AI games and music, today's the perfect day to get 20% off high-quality downloads with code 'groove'! synapticsugar.bandcamp.com/album/agents... #BandcampFriday #playdate #music

Agents of Groove Original Soundtrack, by Synaptic Sugar

22 track album

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1/3: Agents of Groove by @synapticsugar.games (a really fun story-driven rhythm game!! 🪩) play.date/promo/UFQN-N... * = the first letter of the word "Zooble" (capitalized)

Miss that new season game feeling? Lolife and Resonant Tale are both 40% off in the #Playdate Catalog Fall Sale! Check the links for more info.

Playdate@play.date · 2d ago

🍂 The Catalog Fall Sale starts........ NOW! 250+ games are on sale. PLUS, pick up any of these for cheaper: 🤏 Tiny Turnip is half off!! 🥌 office chair curling is only $3! 🏎️ P-Racing for just a buck 💵?! 🛍️ Grab them before Nov 19! ⬇️ play.date/games

My Playdate games are on sale! Lowest price ever! play.date/games/search... #playdateconsole

Agents of Groove is 33% off on Catalog for the Fall Sale! Spin a disco ball with the crank to keep the beat, match button prompts, sneak in rhythm and face bosses as you join the undercover dancers of G.R.O.O.V.E. and help them stop a sinister plot in this story-driven rhythm game. play.date/g/AoG

Agents of Groove for Playdate

A story-driven rhythm action game. Join the undercover dancers of secret agency G.R.O.O.V.E. and help them master the power of the Rhythm, as they stumble upon a sinister plot and attempt to stop it!

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Synaptic Sugar@synapticsugar.games · 3mo ago

Agents of Groove update 2.0 brings a new soundtrack made with @kashdanmusic.bsky.social, new look, improved readability, achievements, many more tweaks and fixes! New trailer below, buy on Catalog and itch (42% off until August 15) 🪩🕺 ➡️ play.date/g/AoG #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #TrailerTuesday

Got a playdate? All my games are currently on sale for the next 2 weeks.

Mirror Door Interactive@mirrordoorinteractive.com · 2d ago

The @play.date Catalog Fall Sale is live! All of our games are currently on sale! With Super Splash League a whopping 62% off! Sale ends Nov 19!

My first #playdate game, ICY DUNGEON is now on sale for $1 until the 19th! Grab it on catalog! -> play.date/games/icy-du... #gamedev #indiedev #NoAI

ICY DUNGEON for Playdate

A chilling puzzle game featuring 70 hand-crafted levels and unique mechanics.

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The #playdate Catalog Fall (Autumn!) Sale is NOW ON, and my two games, 🎵 sing-song ding-dong and 🏘️ Triston are both down to just $3 each! (plus applicable taxes) ➡️ Find them both at play.date/games/studio...

i don't have the energy to make a nicer promo image but hey my #playdate games are on sale in catalog! for the next couple weeks: rowbot rally is $12, HEXA and labsylle are $5, and a whole bunch of other stuff is just $3. check out what's available: play.date/games/studio...

The #playdate community wouldn't be where it is today without Xania's tireless efforts to spotlight devs, games and community projects since the early days, with so many initiatives including of course Uncrank'd magazine. A true icon 🙏

UncrankdPD@uncrankdpd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hello, @play.date community. Today’s special Substack post contains several major announcements regarding Uncrank’d. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read it. uncrankdpdzine.substack.com/p/a-major-an...

Btw, same guy who put together a team to fabricate an excuse to ban HORSES one day before launch, because he was scared of an anti-fascist game in black and white.

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 2w ago

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range. https://bit.ly/4yHFEyK

22-EPISODE TV SEASONS

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 3d ago

Now that Bluesky is the official social media app representing the popular will of the United States of America™️, what is our first cultural decree?

In the simplest terms I wish folk embraced a game being out of step with modern trends and tropes not as something to be fixed but approached with curiosity. That, collectively, games has so little interest in its past, let alone preservation, is part of why it's so malnourished as an art form

"Now is not the time for-" i'm gonna stop you right there, it's the time for EVERYTHING

Good morning!

House Flipper is $1.99 on Steam buff.ly/eRW73P6

men worth over $50M now have to walk a runway each morning for me. every fashion mistake results in an extra 10% income tax

The idea of another human performing your lines is really helpful: Too much text? Too demanding? Could it be split between characters? Could we record in bursts for a longer time? Can we offer vocal training? Is this necessary for the game? The answer is creativity, not feeding it into a machine.

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 5d ago

Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that" https://bit.ly/3UASIrI

Just deleted a couple terabytes of ai slop 😌

CA Props 40, 41, and 42 are in conflict with each other, the latter two attempting to cancel out the first. Like many California ballot initiatives, 41 and 42 exist to confuse voters and they are succeeding. These conflicts should be worked out by the legislature and judiciary, not the electorate.

Itch.io should take a stance and side with indies; ban or hide all slop. Hard to enforce for sure, but it's a strong message. I've personally had to disable all bot/agent access to my site, they were eating up my bandwidth, no donations, almost taking down my site for everyone. Why accept this?

itch.io@itch.io · 7d ago

The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months

Holy shit the Mexico City Dia De Los Muertos parade this year is stunning stuff www.instagram.com/popular/mexi...

Agents of Groove is 30% off on itch for the Halloween Sale, only for a few more days! 🪩🕺🎃 synapticsugar.itch.io/agents-of-gr...

Synaptic Sugar@synapticsugar.games · 2w ago

Spin a disco ball with the crank in time with the beat, match button prompts, move stealthily in rhythm and face bosses as you join the undercover dancers of G.R.O.O.V.E. and help them stop a sinister plot in #AgentsOfGroove for #playdate. 30% off until November 4 for the @itch.io Halloween Sale!

thinking about Patrick Stewart and Tim Curry and Dolly Parton and Catherine O’Hara and how many of the tributes shared after they died translate to something like “their art made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world” it is hard to think of a better way to spend a life than that

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

Farewell, captain.

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

3 months later, I have reviewed 17 additional video game publishing agreements. 16 had explicit no Gen-AI clauses, and 1 didn't mention it. All had standard IP reps & warranties which would make Gen-AI use an arguable breach regardless. But Tim Sweeney still wants you to think everyone is using it

Haley MacLean@haleyfax.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What if I told you that all of the Publishing Agreements I have reviewed in the last 6 months (several dozen) included a no gen AI provision, wherein the use of gen AI in development is a material breach, but companies like Epic and EA are still trying to convince us the industry is cool with it

I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.