Playdate
| Playdate console | ||
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| Release Date: | July 2021 (Preorders) ???? 2021 (Shipping) | |
| Developers: | Panic | |
The Playdate is an upcoming console by Panic. Preorders will open in July of 2021, with consoles to ship to buyers an indeterminate amount of time after.
Games
Purchase of a Playdate entitles you to the first "Season" of games, with 24 games being included, at a release rate of two games per week for three months.
Games can also be developed, shared and loaded on the Playdate from a PC using the included USB cable.
Development
Every Playdate console serves as a development system; as long as you have a PC with a copy of the Playdate SDK, you'll be able to use it to develop, test and play Playdate games. These games can then be shared across the internet and played by other players.
The Playdate SDK supports both the Lua and C programming languages, with a series of Lua-specific Playdate libraries included with the SDK in order to help development in that language.
There will also be a secondary development system, Pulp, which allows for simple, tile based games to be developed for the Playdate entirely via a web browser.
Specifications
- 180MHz Cortex M7 CPU.
- 16MB of RAM with 32KB of L1Cache.
- 4GB Flash storage.
- 400 x 240 monochrome display.
- Mono speaker with stereo headphone jack.
- D-Pad & A + B buttons.
- Physical hardware crank.
- 802.11bgn 2.4GHz Wi-Fi & Bluetooth.
- 8 hour battery life, two week standby time.
- 3-Axis accelerometer.
- USB-C for charging and data (USB-C to USB-A cable included in box)