Stellographer °1 : Discovering Playdate

It's been a while :)

Stellographer was on pause, since life got in the way and the whole Unity thing demotivated me quite a bit, but then I discovered this loveliness:

* On Playdate

Playdate is the love of my life now. This tiny console reignited my love for games and game dev. It has experimental games, it has match-3 that's fun, it has games that piss me off, but I cannot stop playing them.

As a developer I'm most excited about Playdate's SDK. It brings back memories of developing purely with C, meaning no game engines, spawning images, refreshing screens manually, there's a special warm and fuzzy feeling this brings me.  And Lua is phenomenal! It's my first time seriously exploring a language where a variable can be.. Anything?? And I was especially shocked when I found out you don't need 200 lines to get a JSON into usable game data~

Last but not least, the crank is very fun to come up with mechanics for, which brings me tooo

* On Stellographer

For me Stellographer is about exploring interesting mechanics and combining them with an aesthetic experience, which, when I switched to Playdate from Unity meant completely rethinking the core of the game: I have a cool crank and an e-reader screen to work with now, which is exciting~

I'm currently wrapping up the experimentation phase and will be making a few levels (and a level selection menu) to let my friends play with it and let me know what they think. Here's a little peak: 

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Thank you for reading ♥