The crank is really interesting. It's such an off the wall choice for a user interface. It will be cool to see how developers take advantage of it.
Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
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#132I think it's cool. I'm not that old, but games these days mostly seem to be about squeezing every last dollar out of the consumer through shady means. I think this is part of why I don't play video games anymore. It's nice to see something different.
$150 for what looks like 12 simple games isn't that much different.
Point taken, but this is the difference between $12 for a Bud Light at a huge sports venue versus $12 for an interesting and memorable cocktail at an out-of-the-way bar. Both are expensive, but the latter is something you can't get anywhere else and might barely even turn a profit when everything else is factored in.
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#133Just remember that company that made this was abusing DMCA to take down videos just for SJW vocabulary policing [1]. Be warned if you want to make games for it, even if SDK will be free and available without signing agreements.
Maybe this company is not directly related to this incident and they're just publishers, I don't know.
[1] https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/10/16285188/pewdie-pie-racist...
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#134Just remember that company that made this was abusing DMCA to take down videos just for SJW vocabulary policing [1]. Be warned if you want to make games for it, even if SDK will be free and available without signing agreements. Maybe this company is not directly related to this incident and they're just publishers, I don't know. [1] https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/10/16285188/pewdie-pie-racist...
Are you talking about Panic? I don't see them mentioned anywhere in that article so I'm pretty confused as to what you're talking about.
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#135Isn't $150 expensive? Or may be I am just too poor, to throw money at anyone who asks for it.
It'll probably be worth a lot as a collectible in the future.
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#136Slightly off-topic, but the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website ( https://teenage.engineering/products/po ) with larger font size (a bit too large imo). Not dissing the website though, it isn't that bad overall, just thought it was interesting, since I haven't seen many others attempting that. EDIT: after a closer look at the page, I realized that they explicitly mentioned partner…
the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website
It's a style that Panic has used for years:
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#137If anyone wants to do a startup together designing a cheap, retro-style handheld game console with an open app store, please email me :)
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#138It looks cool, I was at Funomena when Crankin was being developed and helped Akira Thompson with some Lua code, didn't realize it would end up on a new handheld 3 years later :).
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh yeah, those were fantastic little devices. It's a shame that it wasn't popular enough to warrant successors. The OpenMoko people did some really innovative stuff back in the day, but hardware is tough.
The problem with single-purpose devices is they're a frivolous cost. When your phone can do everything, buying a separate dedicated device is inherently impractical. Of course, impracticality is also what tends to give things charm. Put differently, limitations create interest, but they're also the opposite of cost-effective.
I'm OK with five devices that do five things well instead of one device that does a poor job at five things.
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#140This is really cool. I might buy one if I am feeling impulsive. I love purpose-built hardware like this!
Would feel more comfortable if I knew they'd allow people to build and sideload games though.
Aside: this website is very choppy in Chrome on Ubuntu.