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Re:Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for fr... by roywiggins on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:41PM (#30508665)
The Arduboy is $60. I don't doubt this thing is more capable that the Arduboy, the hardware is probably nicer, but they're both tiny fidget toys for small games- and one is 4x pricier than the other. So it's not like cheaper indie handhelds can't exist.
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Re:Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for fr... by Danieru on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:45PM (#30508697)
The Arduboy is more powerful for sure.

I've made a game for the Playdate using the Pulp tool release last month. My summation is the device will be a neat toy for hobby gamedevs.

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Re:Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for fr... by user-the-name on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:00AM (#30513074)
In specs it certainly isn't.
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Re:Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for fr... by nyanpasu64 on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:06PM (#30508868)
Apparently the Arduboy is based on the ATmega328. Is writing code in C/C++/Rust fast enough to write full-motion graphically/logically complex (if graphical complexity is even possible on a small display) games on the system, or do you need to implement large chunks in assembly code?
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