Creating a Commercial Console Game in 3 Months

[@SquidGodDev]

Woah awesome devlog! There's no other Playdate devlogs other than mine and Axolotl's on KZbin so it was super interesting seeing how your game came together. Really polished game - nice work!

[@simplyindev]

Yeah I've been watching all your videos so they were definitely an inspiration for this, thanks!

[@gungu]

Playdate videos are rare, and finding this was a true treasure. Really nice

[@simplyindev]

Thank you, I know I'm always looking around for more videos on it with no luck so I just thought I'd make my own

[@JetteroHeller83]

I recently (2 months ago) purchased your reflector game from itch. Great game and great work. It gave me Asteroids vibes.

[@DustyBucket]

Awesome video! love the editing as well. Hope to see more content like this!

[@simplyindev]

Thank you, there definitely will be more stuff like this in the future. I'm still getting the hang of it so over time videos should come out more frequently

[@_gamma.]

I’m glad you found the audio issue too, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@italiangamerjoe7501]

This is AMAZING. Thank you for sharing your story. I can’t wait to try making a game myself! 😄

[@simplyindev]

It definitely has it's frustrating moments, but it's a ton of fun!

[@mjdevlog]

Great & engaging documentation on such a small channel! Your pixel art is really nice :) Also the Celeste backsound tho✨

[@teacupanimates]

no way u only have 96 subs, u are amazing, i subbed

[@0everest0]

How do you only have 200 subscribers? This is awesome!

[@Nightcaat]

Thanks for this, gave me some awesome insight! And I heard that Mario Kart Wii menu theme 👀

[@moonstar_connor]

This is awesome! So relatable trying to remember trig lol

[@snowblack21]

the art looks so cool, you did a great job on the game!

[@Dxrknxghts]

You deserve so many more views and subscribers than you have, just keep up the grind and you’ll be up there with some of the bigger coding content creators

[@simplyindev]

That's very kind of you, I appreciate that

[@Weusneus]

Great video! Really enjoyed your humour and storytelling.

[@mysilentworld6731]

simple but fun n graphically impressive i could imagine the sound just by the visual language

[@leave..yayers]

Woooaahhhh u r def underrated!!! AAAAA

[@jonny__b]

Game looks incredible! That audio decode performance hit is a heinous one, seems like profiling could've gone a long way here. I'm currently writing a playdate engine in C, so glad for the warning. Keep making these mate! Great stuff

[@simplyindev]

Yeah unfortunately the profiling that comes with the simulator didn't help in narrowing it down, but that may just be user error lol

[@Dragon20C]

I think the shield could be simplified by simply having a circle collider and getting the angle from the player and the ball and then some math to see if the ball falls inside the shield area and reverse the velocity of the ball.

[@simplyindev]

Unfortunately that would not work. There are no circle colliders in the playdate sdk, and if the ball comes in at an angle reversing the velocity would not be how a sphere bounces off another. That's why to do it you need to calculate the angle of reflection based on the tangent line of the collision

[@Dragon20C]

@@simplyindev I see, that's unfortunate that there isn't a circle collider maybe to intensive, and I see your point, good job anyways!

[@MrMalibublues]

Hahahaha I never expected Eddy Wally to show up on my screen just like that at 2:30 😂😂

[@sarnax74]

That is so awesome

[@shigechi5027]

Yt algorithm brought me here. Nice video.

[@zaidxdev]

great videos!

[@martinbrazda7943]

Thank you for your help! It works perfectly!

[@Alayric]

Crazy how choosing a file format over another messed everything up

[@Charmunk3d]

Great Video!

[@AlastairLow]

great video :) its crazy what can run on sim but realy not on device. I had a similar issue on shrimp boom

[@marcimmyk7717]

Very good video

[@BloodyDeadCat]

This is the 5000th video ive liked

[@King-mv9te]

nice

[@andrewtfluck]

AHHHHH, THE UNIT CIRCLE 🤣😭

[@khushwantgaur]

Watching this video because of this game. I don't have panic playdate

[@martinbrazda7943]

it works perfectly! Thanks buddy

[@Jarek.]

I wanted to buy Playdate a lot... But the price to simply too high - I'm not referring even to price-to-value ratio but in absolute terms: 199 USD turns into 282.90 with shipping and taxes. for 135 USD I bought a retro console RG353v which brought me back into a nostalgic adventure across systems and computers of my childhood (Commodore +4 / C64 / Amiga / Dos games / Point-and-click games such as Secret of Monkey Island etc).

[@septarap3901]

Bro!!!! I'm in Group #5 too!!!

[@simplyindev]

It's rough down in group #5, but hopefully it's not too far out now lol

[@davidsprod529]

i thought you were gunna push back the release date to late 2025

[@Diggsano]

I am slowly getting into programming.... Did you use C or Lua for the Product?

[@simplyindev]

I used Lua

[@m12m123]

Why did you put a deadline although you work lonely?

[@simplyindev]

I was releasing my game in a bundle with some other devs and we had a release date set for that

[@m12m123]

@@simplyindev oh...... now I got it

[@C.studio]

No disrespect to anyone who owns one but like the play date is slightly over priced in my opinion