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1 hour ago, Nathan Wind said:

What's it costing for postage to the UK on these things? I'm trying to work out whether or not I'm willing to pay eBay scalper prices.


My whole thing with a case delivery and import taxes was $263. 

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Must have played 10 hours or so over the weekend. Finished casual birder and putting some time into surfing and Bloom and a really nice high score super hexagon like called Circular. 
 

Generally I love it. On whitewater wipeout it is tricky to find a comfortable hold position because of the nature of the controls but it’s fine in short bursts. Other games have been fine. 
 

The screen does take a bit of getting used to but I’m enjoying it enough to make sure I have a light behind me when I play. As long as you have a light source it’s crystal clear. 

If you’re thinking of buying one I reckon you HAVE to be well up for quirky, cute experimental game experiences. It will be interesting to see how development progresses and if they can continue to mix in games with substance alongside the quirkier titles. I’m well up for whatever they want to throw at me and to help out some bedroom devs by buying their stuff. 
 

I’ll be taking it to work tomorrow to have a teeny picross machine in my pocket!

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Made a basic Spectrum emulator for the Playdate the other day, just to see how it runs. Speed seems fine, though not doing audio yet. A few graphics issues due to the lack of colour.

 

Was wondering about doing a Space Invaders arcade emulator, as that's pretty simple, and also has a monochrome screen.

 

 

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Question for those who’ve played Bloom. 
 

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I have spent some time having seemingly non branching conversations on my phone and have enjoyed planting things, harvesting and making money to buy a few plot upgrades. My question though is, is that pretty much it? Does it go anywhere? Do more options open up? Does the story go anywhere interesting? I’m enjoying it but how much more I play it will be impacted by the answers. 

 

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11 hours ago, Skykid said:

Anyone listening to the Playdate podcast? I'm enjoying it.

The first one is an hour and something about where the machine came from, production line, design, etc, and then ~20-minute interviews with the creators of the Season 1 games, released in order.

 

(Take a sip every time someone says 'crank')


I hadn’t noticed this but listening to it now and it’s great so far. It’s a great story. 
 

Slight problem they’re gonna have moving forward. They have to do a lot of work encouraging developers to do games which I assume will include this getting a store on the system of some kind. That then knocks out the season 2 idea unless they want to charge a big chunk of money. Maybe they can do season packs. It’s exciting to be on board. 
 

With the hi score games I’m playing then until I up my score then I’m quitting and playing something else which works well from me. 
 

I’m up to 392,000 on whitewater now. 220 in the globals! 

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Not sure what to do with mine. The difference between my circumstances when I ordered it and when it arrived are so vast I just don't know when I'll get the chance. Really wanted it at the start of Summer to get stuck in, but it arrived at the end of September, a very busy time, and I even forgot I owned it until I open the drawer it's in. Need to actually make a concerted effort to sit down with the thing.

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2 hours ago, therearerules said:

Not sure what to do with mine. The difference between my circumstances when I ordered it and when it arrived are so vast I just don't know when I'll get the chance. Really wanted it at the start of Summer to get stuck in, but it arrived at the end of September, a very busy time, and I even forgot I owned it until I open the drawer it's in. Need to actually make a concerted effort to sit down with the thing.


I’ll give you £50 for it.

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18 minutes ago, shirubagan said:

OK. This has died on me again and now won’t come back to life. Also, the power button doesn’t seem to click any more. It is supposed to click isn’t it?


Just leave it charging for an hour or so. It’ll spring back to life. As for the click, it was more of a soft inaudible click for me.

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On 21/10/2022 at 07:48, deKay said:

By “dispatched” they meant “we printed a label”. It’s still at that stage. Sigh.

 

And nearly a week later, it's still at that stage. Well, they've scanned it now.

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It's due to be delivered tomorrow and it hasn't even left Panic yet.

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