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piousPigeon
@piouspigeon.bsky.social
https://piouspigeon.itch.io
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Playdate, AAA
Hablet for Playdate~ out now!
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Hablet is out now on #playdate Catalogue!!
play.date/games/hablet/
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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Since I’m doing both art and programming for my game, I get to not only violate decades worth of computer science findings about code design and architecture, but also blaspheme centuries worth of study and understanding of perspective! #doublethreat
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The Playdate is a great indie puzzle machine
The Playdate is a great indie puzzle machine
Stop reaching for your phone.
buff.ly
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Untitled Witch Game
Pico8, 4 colors

[ #pixelart #art ]
October 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
youtu.be/SI3vzCNtVQY?...
Wow this looks incredible
Melkhiors Mansion - Windows PC Release
YouTube video by BitGlint Games
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My game is out today 🚛! Haul cargo, meet other truckers, and live the adventure of the open road in Cherry Hill: A Trucking Adventure Simulator on @play.date Catalog: play.date/games/cherry...

🍿 To see more, check out the full trailer! youtu.be/_oECyEonn4U 🍿

#gamedev #playdate #indiegame
September 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Throwing your kid in a river was the og class mobility
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Tonight I’m rewatching Dreamwork’s Prince of Egypt wowie never realized how stacked this cast was
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I BREAK MY POSTING SABBATICAL TO BRING THE NEWS THAT HABLET HAS PASSED 1000 COPIES SOLD!!!
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHOS AGREED TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE CONCIERGE!
August 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hablet patch 1.15:

Fixed duplicate buildings appearing and disappearing.

Fixed placing a building too fast causing a crash.

Entropy system update, if one building is dilapidated, it will continue to erode until it is ruined before a new building will erode.
Submitted to catalogue and Itch!
June 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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if i do sufficiently thorough people watching, i'll finally figure out how to be
June 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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In an old interview once featured on the Pac-Man fansite, Pac-Land, Toru Iwatani expressed interest in creating games that make people cry.

He elaborated that he would like to envision a dramatic game that would provoke emotions beyond what gamers (at the time) were used to.
June 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Unpopular personal take.

Given the, like, hundreds of great looking indie games I want to play, I'd happily pay the same asking price of the longer version of the game for one that is no more than 4 hours long.
June 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Working on adding more info to the town labels...
Now you can see how many turns before babies are due! in a 4X game!!🤪
#IndieGameDev #tilesettuesday #gaming
June 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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- games are more expensive now to make than ever
- Obsidian doesn’t really do layoffs or crunch. They treat their employees well and find new projects for them.
- Game Pass is always an option
- Game studios are in HCOL locales
- $80 should be the norm for full-length AAA-budget games.
Outer Worlds 2, the explicitly anti-capitalist roleplaying game developed by Obsidian, being the first Microsoft game to cost $80 USD (or a STAGGERING $100 CAD) is just too on the nose for me. Jesus fucking christ.

There are MAYBE 5 AAA games released in that past 5 years that could justify that $
June 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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did not buy a treat and was richly rewarded with free office cupcake
June 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Back on this PlayDate project. Graphics are starting to appear from pixel supremo @craigstevenson.bsky.social and I've started work on the robot interface sub game. The game is called Zyphatron.

#zyphatron #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yay Hablet mention!
Saturday edition should really be on here too, one of the all time greats for sure
"I’ve really appreciated the range of adventure games showing up on the Playdate over the last year, as the range of options gets diverse, engaging, and inclusive."

www.siliconera.com/playdate-is-...
Playdate Is Proving to Be a Home for Adventure Games
Playdate adventure games seem to be getting more diverse, engaging, and inclusive as people realize how to use the handheld.
www.siliconera.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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ONE week to go until Season TWO.

🐣 Make sure to pre-order so you're there from the very first moment: play.date/s2

🏋️‍♀️ Then, update your Playdate to be 100% ready for all the new goodness: help.play.date/update

🐎 LET'S DO THIS
May 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
May 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
If you’ve already got Hablet from piouspigeon.itch.io/hablet
Grab the free update to unlock shiny buildings, new dialogue and bug fixes!
May 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Wie genial. Da ich heute wegen meiner chronischen Schmerzen mal wieder in den Seilen hänge, habe ich etwas Ablenkung gesucht. Hablet ist ideal. Ein cozy city builder tamagotchi in Echtzeit, dass man nur in kleinen Dosen spielt. Man baut eine Stadt und erweitert sie und kümmert sich täglich.
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM