Pichuscute (Ben)

Been super-hard at work making For Home! It's a big space RPG narrative for Playdate that I'm so excited to share with everyone when it releases! We've got Echoes of the Emergent coming this Spring too!

@ZeldaDungeon WW HD. Better art, had the awesome Miiverse integration, had better item/map usage, better sailing, had off-TV play, etc.

Daily Debate: Do You Prefer The Wind Waker or The Wind Waker HD? zeldadungeon.net/daily-debate-d…

We recently went hard mode on our @playdate game ☄️Comet! A massive visual overhaul, squeezing every drop out of LDtk, and rebuilding our drawing pipeline unlocked all the ideas we wanted to put on screen. Check out our devlog: guv-bubbs.itch.io/comet/devlog/9… #Playdate

@ShinenGames Some game has to do it when Nintendo's games are going to be too expensive to buy, lmfao.

#FastFusion is now also available in the US eShop for preorder. Our nice price: $14.99 So everyone can see on launch day what the new #NintendoSwitch2 can do!

Naval battle in a night storm. And a long overdue devlog update about U-boat deck guns. stephanrewind.itch.io/atlantic-41/de… @playdate #Atlantic41game #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #indiedevhour #1bit #Pixelart #RetroGaming

Out now on Playdate Catalog: RowBot Rally, a robots+bunnies rowboat racer that's crank-happy and heavy on juice. Go ace that Fish Bowl, champ! play.date/games/rowbot-r… 🚣‍♀️

A fun emergent part of the @playdate awards last year was all of the "For Your Consideration" posts Playdate Devs created. So I thought I'd get the ball rolling this year with ours for ☄️Comet. I'll be adding any other FYC posts to this 🧵

Really happy to see that my game Echoes of the Emergent has now hit over 1000 sales! I'm grateful that the Playdate community continues to support games and developers so well. It's a fantastic little community.

@geoffkeighley So you see the problem, after adding the disc drive... right???

Here are inflation adjusted prices for mainline PlayStation consoles since launch: PS1: $611 (1995) PS2: $546 (2000) PS3: $778 (2006) PS4: $538 (2013) PS4 Pro: $522 (2016) PS5: $606 (2020) PS5 Pro: $699 (2024)

@geoffkeighley The worst thing this industry has done in decades.

How would you grade today's PlayStation Technical Presentation?

Welcome to your jam-packed Catalog drop!! We've got 10 new games (drops 37 & 38!) to share this week since we were busy at PAX West last week showing off even more Panic and Playdate games 😎 Let's go. Visit play.date/games or open up Catalog on your Playdate to play 🎁

A huge motivation for making Zero Zero: Perfect Stop was crafting the soundscape. A big part of that is the in-car announcements. I had the pleasure of working with @TheDonnaBurke for the English lines. You may recognize her voice from the Shinkansen, or from MGS5! Sound on! 🔊

Echoes of the Emergent resonating with people so much has really put me at ease. Thought Bloom might just be a fluke and we got really lucky. So so relieved that's not the case. Thank you, everyone, for playing these games.

We're headed back to PAX West in a few weeks, and guess what—we'll be selling Playdates at our booth! Plus, lots of Playdate merch. Oh, and you can play non-Playdate games we publish. Mama Mia! 📅Aug 3–Sept 2 📍Arch Expo Hall, 4th floor (And yes, we'll have the giant Playdate)

Devlog link: @Guv_Bubbs on playtesting the upcoming game Comet, and on creating characters for it… guv-bubbs.itch.io/comet/devlog/7… 🖼️

Echoes of the Emergent's OST is now available on Spotify! Should be out or on its way to most other major music platforms, too! Which song is your favorite? open.spotify.com/album/4e6uoWUk…

"all it took was a glimpse of Echoes of the Emergent’s gritty aesthetic and melancholic atmosphere to get me to preorder it. And now that I’ve finally gotten around to playing (reading? experiencing?) it, I’m kind of blown away." @engadget engadget.com/echoes-of-the-… 🖤

Hello and welcome to Catalog

Our new visual novel for @playdate is out now! play.date/games/echoes-o…

@leapintothewrld @RegularStudio_ Gonna second this. Big turn off of the game for me, unfortunately.

@RegularStudio_ The blood is offputting tbh. I feel a cut before landing is more “terrifying”. Do as you do, though. Just offering my perspective.

I'm trying to capture this feeling 👍