Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for free to all
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#2Announcement tweet: https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1498427655175159822
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#3how is it only 8 hours active battery?
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#4> Most games will use Playdate’s Lua API
Oh my sweet summer child. Reminds me of the Android documentation that said something along "Most apps shouldn't use the NDK".
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#5How many people are going to develop for a niche hobby platform with such closed-source restrictions (including anti-reverse-engineering): https://play.date/dev/sdk-license
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#6> Most games will use Playdate’s Lua API Oh my sweet summer child. Reminds me of the Android documentation that said something along "Most apps shouldn't use the NDK".
Do most apps use the NDK?
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#7How many people are going to develop for a niche hobby platform with such closed-source restrictions (including anti-reverse-engineering): https://play.date/dev/sdk-license
The "closed-source restrictions" are on the SDK itself, not applications written using it. At risk of being a bit flip, there's a pretty long history of people developing applications that run against proprietary SDKs. The "niche hobby platform" might prove to be more of an issue, but I don't think anyone developing for -- or for that matter, buying -- the Playdate is doing so with the expectation that it's going to be the next Nintendo Switch.
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#8How many people are going to develop for a niche hobby platform with such closed-source restrictions (including anti-reverse-engineering): https://play.date/dev/sdk-license
I'll own one, and I'm a game developer, so, at least one.
What part of the license do you feel I should be upset about?
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#9Does anyone care about this after the Analogue Pocket and the Steam Deck have
launched (I get my Steam Deck next week).
I get they're different devices, but I feel the Playdate had a bunch of hype, and then took way too long to ship, and has lost that initial interest.
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#10Does anyone care about this after the Analogue Pocket and the Steam Deck have launched (I get my Steam Deck next week). I get they're different devices, but I feel the Playdate had a bunch of hype, and then took way too long to ship, and has lost that initial interest.
I still think it's neat. As neat as Analogue Pocket, maybe not Steam Deck.
I generally like small single-purpose electronics and find them to be fun ways to get some joy out of digital devices. I think I could do that with both the Pocket and Deck, but I like the idea of the minimalism of the Play, so I'm probably going to eventually own all three :P