Hey gamedev mastodon, if you're into the #playdate console, check out our new game, a 1bit port of the 16bit classic:

https://lonelystarsoftware.itch.io/playdapon

I guess the cost of releasing stuff as twitter melts down is lots of cross posting to figure out where people are going?

PlayDaPon by Lonely Star Software, stephan_gfx

The classic 16-bit action puzzle game brought to your playdate in vivid 1-bit color

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@stephan_gfx ooooh! First game I’ve seen with the rotated orientation.
@hoyeboye If you give it a shot, let me know how you feel like it works! We really wanted the bigger board + bigger blocks that rotating the screen gave us.
@stephan_gfx Once I found a comfortable way to hold it so I could press the A button, it was super fun! I found myself using my left thumb for the B button instead of my right.

@hoyeboye oh nice! that totally makes sense! I was bummed to see some folks on the itch page saying they didn't like the orientation -- if you'd like to post on the itch page that you've got a nice arrangement, folks might be interested to hear that.

For this game we liked the bigger, more readable board with this arrangement. Regardless, glad to hear you're enjoying it!

@stephan_gfx Done! I did want to note that while I was on the main menu after playing a game, the music became loud and distorted. Exiting and re-opening fixed it.
@hoyeboye oh thats interesting... I've seen some issues with the sound system but haven't seen that one. I'll keep an eye out for it, thanks for the heads up.