Catalog – Playdate’s on-device app store that is also very browser- and mobile-friendly – is THREE YEARS OLD. (Also, this site you’re on right now just turned two. Happy birthday to us!) What better way to celebrate than with a big sale? Panic released a fun infographic about how they have 423 games on the store (there are even more since this was posted) and have paid out $1,399,393.69 to…
Blippo+ has been this mysterious creature ever since it was surprise announced back at Day of the Devs in December 2024. Then it surprise launched as part of Season Two as a free… thing. It’s not really a game. It’s a streaming television service with one-minute long shows made exclusively for Blippo+ , updated weekly on a 12-week rotation (eleven weeks of new shows then one recap/countdown week).…
Playdate Unofficial: Hi, Scott (Hall, game developer at Orange Thief)! We played all your games in a row this week. All made in Pulp! What drew you to Pulp? And will you ever make an SDK game? Scott Hall of Orange Thief: Hello and thank you for making the time to play my games! I actually started out using Pulp by necessity as it was released to the public before the SDK. I had always intended to…
Rae is one of the darlings of the Playdate community — always ready to help people in the Playdate Squad Discord ; creator of games like HEXA , First in… Line? , and the upcoming RowBot Rally (coming to Catalog on December 17, 2024); and generally friendly internet presence. Find her on Bluesky or her website if you’re into that kind of thing. Since RowBot Rally will shortly be in our hands (…
I missed writing about the first annual Playdate Advent Calendar in 2023 because, well… this site didn’t exist yet. But as one of the world’s foremost Playdate chroniclers/historians, I’m not missing it this year! (And luckily they archived the 2023 calendar here so I can memorialize that in words later, too!) Created, curated, and presented by top Playdate People Dominik Haas , Uncrank’d…
You were with us through all of Scenic Route Week, where I played every Scenic Route Software game released on Playdate, all in a row, including one that as of this writing isn’t out yet (but will be on Catalog on September 10, 2024! ). Now let’s learn a little more about the person behind the games! Playdate Unofficial: How’d you get into game development, and what drew you to the Playdate?…
Look, my wife and I made a video! It’s just like that one on the main page, but this one is all about Playdate games that haven’t come out yet (as of August 2024). At least on Catalog — you can sideload one of these on Itch today, if you read my handy guide . Hope you like it… Maybe we’ll make more someday! (She does all the video and audio editing, and you should check out her whole YouTube page…
Hosted by PossiblyAxolotl, the first interview I ever did on this site , here is the Summer 2024 Playdate Community Direct! You can watch the hour-long showcase yourself here , and download the companion app for your own Playdate here ! This thing you’re about to read is kind of an unofficial companion post? I’ve assembled links to (almost) all the games so you can follow along with their…
Ollie Coe is the creative force and main/only person behind Pixel Ghost, one of the most prolific Playdate developers to date. You may recognize his games from this site, since I wrote about every single one of them over the course of one big, glorious week. And, since he’s so nice, he said he’d be willing to get interviewed for Playdate Unofficial, too! Let’s get started! PlaydateUnofficial.com:…
Come on and jam, and welcome to the jam.
I interview the host of PlayJams 1-5 and developer of Rocket Bytes!
How to sideload cool games that aren’t on Catalog
Buy these five Playdate games FIRST
Snake??? SNAAAAAAKKKKEEEEEE!!!