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The Agents of Groove key art from the Catalog page, with five character silhouettes in front of a large disco ball and the stylized words "Agents of Groove" in the front. A tag in the upper left corner shows the normal price of $12 is discounted to $8, or 33% off. At the bottom are the words "Agents of Groove by Synaptic Sugar".

Pick up Agents of Groove for $8 during the #playdate Catalog Anniversary Sale! Dance, sneak, face off against your enemies and save the world alongside the undercover dancers of G.R.O.O.V.E. in this "charming and surprisingly diverse" rhythm game! 🪩🕺

🔗 play.date/games/agents...

RowBot Rally store listing in the Playdate Catalog. There's a discount tag in the top-left corner advertising that the game's 20% off — $12, discounted from $15.

#playdate catalog sale is live now! for the next couple weeks, you can pick up rowbot rally at a steamy fresh discount of just $12!

nominated for multiple PD awards, a big labor of love; made without a single shred of robot input. ❤️
play.date/g/rbr

...hey, free demo, too!
rae.wtf/rowbot-rally...

𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘯𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵

my @play.date game Cherry Hill is on sale for the Catalog Anniversary Sale along with tons of other wonderful games 🫶 thanks to everyone playing #playdate games, no matter what you're playing!!!

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Ratcheteer DX - OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch, PC, & Mac YouTube video by Panic

Who's ready to release a video game? @panic.com gave me the chance to colorize my little @play.date adventure game Ratcheteer and bring it to a wider audience on Steam and, most exciting to me (and the kids), the Nintendo Switch! It's out today: ratcheteer.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3e...

Story-driven rhythm game Agents of Groove will be 33% off during the #playdate Catalog Anniversary Sale as well! Great time to grab it if you've been on the fence (or if you haven't)! 🪩 🕺

The 2025 Playdate Community Awards will be on March 14th at 11AM Pacific Time/2PM Eastern Time

Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@PlaydateSquad
Award nominees thread starts here: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Discord: Discord: discord.gg/zFKagQ2
Wiki: playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_202...
#Playdate

scent of ˖⁺‧₊˚✦ smashed fruit ˖⁺｡˚⋆˙

Games are: - Coda by nitebloom games - lolife by Orange Thief Ltd; - SOLAR DESCENT by Quang Hoang - Ware-wolf Campfire Stories by Ledbetter, banana, Grackalope Games/BT, Eva Belmont, Serrotonin/Austin Serr, Zach Hazard Vaupen // Emo Sludge Games, intellikat, orkn, samplay, Pixel Ghost, Swansonge, Afifyoram, DarkNStormyGames, Tijn & Jazzie, James Gameboy, Buizy, Pixel Potemkin, & qhoang

Day 19: Nominees for Pulp Game of the Year!
@orangethief.bsky.social @ldbrart.bsky.social @qhoang.bsky.social #Playdate

Play the first level in Agents of Groove and unlock new custom emojis for #playdate voice messaging app helloyellow! Get both on Catalog or itch 🪩 🕺

play.date/games/agents...
play.date/games/helloy...

synapticsugar.itch.io/agents-of-gr...
jonsimantov.itch.io/helloyellow

#gamedev #indiedev

🔧 Ratcheteer DX is a snack sized Link's Awakening-like adventure launching next week for the low, low price of $9.75.

🎮 Steam Demo out, save transfers over - s.team/a/3908650

📝 Request a code - forms.gle/Njropf1dgWwApe5AA

A screenshot of three pink rounded squares and one bisque-colored line connecting two of them.

this is a #playdate prototype, I promise

That's a big one for me. We put together Ware-wolf Campfire Stories with 14 other devs as a jam/Collab this past October and it's up for FREE for everyone to check out.

Honored for the nomination and for everyone's work to be acknowledged 🤩

Screenshot of a word puzzle game. A word in the middle is broken up into syllabic chunks, and a circular player cursor is swapping them two-at-a-time.

labsylle, my new #wordgame, is OUT NOW for your personal computer and your #playdate!

it's a quick-play game all about the "building blocks" of english. if you like puzzle-y games, i hope you enjoy this one too!

💻 raewtf.itch.io/labsylle
🟨 play.date/games/labsylle

#indie #indiedev #gamedev

Feeling so grateful that Cherry Hill has been nominated for the #Playdate Community Awards!!!! 🙇‍♀️

If you haven’t already, pls go check out all the amazing games in every category, there’s so much creativity and joy 💖🟨

The games are lolife by Orange Thief Ltd, Rowbot Rally by Rae, Otto's Galactic Groove by Team Otto, and Trackminia by Eli Piilonen

Pleased to start announcing the nominees for the 2025 Playdate Community Awards, starting with Accomplishment in Accessibility!
@rae.wtf @orangethief.bsky.social @2darray.bsky.social @pawprints.games #playdate

Games are Wirewalk by Danilo Ganzella, Tiny Turnip by Luke Sanderson, Chance's Lucky Escape by Goloso Games & Julia Minamata, and Taria & Como by Popseed Studio Inc & JuVee Productions

Day 3: Nominees for Best Adventure Game
@lukesanderson.bsky.social @golosogames.bsky.social @juliaminamata.bsky.social @kiphendersonart.bsky.social @calixjumio.me

Suborbital Salvage on Steam Fly through a dangerous, hazard-filled orbit where every run is a lesson that sharpens your flight skills. Featuring procedurally generated runs built from hand-crafted segments that demand precision ...

Its been a long journey for this small game, but I'm excited to say #SuborbitalSalvage is available meow on Steam 🚀🙀

store.steampowered.com/app/3687960/...

#gamedev #indiegames #love2d #endlessrunner #scifi #cats #pixelart

It's all fun and games until you get to February 11th 😱!!!

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!

#AgentsOfGroove 1.1.2 is available on itch and Catalog with important bug fixes and changes 🧵

- a crash fix 😨
- scoreboard fixes (Catalog only) 📋
- several difficulty tweaks 🕺
- optimizations for traversal levels 📦

Details in the replies!

play.date/games/agents...

#gamedev #indiedev #playdate

Cranko! 5 is right on time! ⏰
cranknockout.com
First issue this year with a special article on Playdate 3D games, news, reviews, interviews and a GIANT walkthrough of Diora + a poster. Don't be late to the party!

first syllables, now weeks? is NOTHING safe from getting swapped?!

labsylle, my upcoming wordsy puzzle game, now releases on 02.17.2026 (a week ahead of time!) for #playdate and personal computers. save the date!

🟨 play.date/games/labsylle
💻 raewtf.itch.io/labsylle

#indiedev #gamedev #wordgame

🔧 FREE demo of Ratcheteer DX on Steam today! Check out this Link to a golden era of video games and Awaken your nostalgic memories of top-down action-adventuring.

Full game is out March 5 on Switch, PC, and Mac. (Your demo save will transfer to the full Steam release.)

⬇️ s.team/a/3908650

snow! — Playdate: The Unofficial Website No business like snow! business

Having a snow! day on Playdate Unofficial (game by @fsouchu.bsky.social): www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/snow

Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Agents of Groove is out on Playdate Catalog today! 🎉🪩🕺

◢◤ CULTIVATOR is live now on @play.date Catalog! ◥◣

I started this project making a bunch of crazy 1-bit visual effects to go along with my music. Over the past year I've ended up building a short narrative farming sim experience around it.

play.date/games/cultiv...
#playdate #gamedev #indiedev

a mockup of the playdate website with a new badge that says “yes!! 100% attack drone metal free!!”. this is reference to a.. you know what, it doesn’t really matter.

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

One week left to nominate for the 2025 @play.date Community Awards!

Form here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wiki here (with an ever-expanding gallery of For Your Consideration artwork):
playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_202...

Join the Discord here:
discord.gg/zFKagQ2

Consider nominating "RowBot Rally" at the 2025 Playdate Community Awards, for "2025 Playdate GOTY", "The CRANKY Award", "Accomplishment in Accessibility", "Best Action Game", "Best Adventure Game", "Best Narrative Game", "Outstanding Visual Achievement (SDK)", and "Best Launch Experience".

Consider nominating "Bona Fido" and "Traffic Jam" at the 2025 Playdate Community Awards, for "Best Arcade Game".

Consider nominating "Mission LunaTrix" at the 2025 Playdate Community Awards, for "Best Arcade Game", "Best Soundtrack", and "Best Sound Design".

Consider nominating "Cloudburst" at the 2025 Playdate Community Awards, for "Accomplishment in Accessibility", "Best App or Knickknack", "Best Sound Design", and "Outstanding Technical Achievement (SDK)".

voting for the 2025 #playdate community awards is happening now! i released five good playdate games over the last year, and if you enjoyed any of them i'd appreciate a nomination

you can vote here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A poster that reads "Lolife - For Your Consideration - Pulp Game of the Year, Best Adventure Game, Best Soundtrack, Visual Achievement in a Pulp Game, Outstanding Innovation in a Pulp Game, Accomplishment in Accessibility - The Playdate Community Awards 2025"

There's still time to vote in The 2025 Playdate Community Awards! If you enjoyed playing Lolife this year please consider lending us your support #Playdate playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_202...