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Personally the association with Teenage Engineering makes me more concerned that this will not be as exciting as it sounds. TE's Op-1 is a fine piece of kit, but their recent offerings have been very underwhelming. Also the placement of the crank and the form factor look very un-ergonomic.
Isn't $150 expensive? Or may be I am just too poor, to throw money at anyone who asks for it.
It's expensive but not nearly as expensive as I would expect a Teenage Engineering product to be. For example, their most famous product, the OP-1 (a small digital synth with a small LCD screen) is $1300.
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There was a great fishing mini game in one of the N64 Zelda titles. This crank would have ruled.
I had one of those dedicated fishing games back in the day with a crappy LCD display and a crank. Played it to death. https://i.imgur.com/tdESids.jpg
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I had one of those dedicated fishing games back in the day with a crappy LCD display and a crank. Played it to death. https://i.imgur.com/tdESids.jpg
The Dreamcast had a game and controller to go with it. https://i.imgur.com/6AGrtRy.jpg
In a few years, we are going to revisit the golden era again, and it's going to be as fun as it was last time.
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I'm actually really dreading the Apple Arcade business model. The game developers are compensated by time spent in their game. This means that, similar to the current craze for open world games, shorter, more experimental games will simply earn less. Thus, meaningful content will be stretched even thinner to fill up more of the user's time. It's another nail in the coffin of single player narrative experiences. Strea…
A number of businesses have moved towards models where compensation is directly tied to time spent consuming: Kindle pays authors by the page, YouTube monetizes based on watch time. I really think it harms the world by incentivizing creators to pad and fluff. Dickens is great, but you can really tell which of his works were published serially, because it affected how he wrote. At the same time, paying a flat amount f…
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I just checked TE's web site, and it's good to see so many products marked "sold out." I hope it means that people are starting to realize that technology doesn't have to be boring.
In my experience, it does mean exactly that. Went to the local modular synth store (which I like a ton; they have tons of events like weekly meetups, workshops, etc.), and they often tend to run out of Teenage Engineering PO series devices. Talked to the owner (as it is a small shop, so he more often than not works the register himself), and he confirmed that they cannot stop ordering new batches, since they get sold…
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So maybe the easier explanation is they hired some good industrial designers, who had happened to previously work on various cranks, and they possibly pitched the idea to the Panic team when asked to design the game device? The point standing that it was an odd choice for a game controller anyway you cut it and most likely wasn't through some UX problem solving process related to games.
But what if the wacky random choice of a crank unleashes some new game mechanic we haven't seen before? Wouldn't it be fun to break away from D-pads once in a while?
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it's not even accurate - nintendo labo has shown there is a market for high spec high quality non standard games(as long as there is an assurance of quality behind it) biggest hurdle for playdate is word of mouth - nintendo has that trust, i don't trust the company behind this. Same reason that android console failed - hell nvidia couldn't get enough support behind it
I trust Panic. They have an extremely long history of producing really high-quality Mac software, and they published Firewatch (which was excellent).
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My product is called Devev. I moonlit the product for the past few years while working at Microsoft. I quit about a month ago to get it over the finish line. I'm still pre-launch but here are some images: https://imgur.com/a/zLS1g0t I worked on video games for the past few years and saw many less technical colleagues empowered by tools like Unreal Engine's Blueprint ( https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Bluepr…
This is really cool! I've often wondered if a Blueprint-like editting experiences could be used more broadly. Looking forward to seeing this grow. I think there is also great potential for a very approachable debugging experience. Targeting build systems seems like a great fit as well, since as you pointed out the build DAG is naturally a graph. When you mentioned games programming, I thought of Dream's visual progra…