SquidGod

🟨 Making @Playdate games/videos

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

@voxybuns Replied on Youtube, but for more details, I'm calling gfx.sprite.update in SceneManager.lua, which clears the screen, so it technically does clear the screen constantly. There's not really any way around it, though clearing the screen shouldn't have a large performance cost.

[Playdate @playdate]

Playdate tutorial celebrity SquidGod has a new game out in Catalog today: Propeller Rat, a futuristic, crank-operated, flying-rat simulator. AND, he put together a video explaining how the game was made!

📽️ The video: https://t.co/p1j5iFBbsb
🐀 The game: https://t.co/m9Mtg31Ehs

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

And of course I also made a devlog on how I made the game: https://t.co/qRWm4mouhK

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

My new game, Propeller Rat, is out today! It’s a #playdate game where you pilot a little propeller-strapped rat through various, hazard filled levels.

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

You can find it on Catalog: https://t.co/olbZljUOPg

Or on Itch:
https://t.co/eXWaZEJKwP

[Jurge Cruz-Alvarez 🦫 @jcruzalvarez26]

hey! my shout-out for Core Fault made the @playdate Staff Picks section!

i truly believe that everyone with a Playdate should have this game, @davemakes & @SquidGodDev made a banger and it's currently on sale for $3!

https://t.co/wmvN502C39

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

@jcruzalvarez26 @playdate @davemakes Thank you!! Happy you enjoyed it.

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

You can find them here: https://t.co/JLa9Mq3yoa

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

I paused my Patreon since I'm on a bit of a break, so I've made the github repos for my Playdate games public so people can still take a look at the source code

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

@hellopdpodcast @davemakes No ending. Theoretically there's no level cap, but the time limit makes it so you can't keep going.

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

You can play/rate it here! https://t.co/X7ob05JfQW

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

Made something small for the #gmtk2023 #GMTKJam. Was replaying Downwell and imagined who would save Welltaro. You play as a parachuting medic 🪂⛑️

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

@playdate Who knew seeing Guillermo del Toro holding a Playdate is exactly what I needed in my life

[matt sephton @gingerbeardman]

@RewindStephan @Guv_Bubbs There are indeed some improvements and performance is similar to recovery firmware 1.11.1

Bad luck on my part that the functions I make heavy use of in Daily Driver are still slower (image:sample, image:draw, math).

Also some old numbers: 0.10.2 from June 2020 was blazing fast!

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

@davemakes Yoo tell me about it... I couldn't resist these gachapons last time I was there

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

If you don't know what this is, every month I share my revenue numbers publicly, so hopefully I can look back and see my journey to reaching a full-time independent income. Here's last months numbers:
https://t.co/tPBXzfvq2z

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

Core Fault, @davemakes and my #playdate game, has made $1,961 on Itch IO and $1,394 on Catalog so far.

Every month I share how much I make as a game dev Youtuber - this month I'm also breaking down the revenue for each game.

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

Every month I share my revenue numbers for the Youtube/Game Dev business I'm trying to build.

Slow month for my channel since I haven't released a game in a while. I'm itching to release another game, but this next one probably won't be done for another couple of months...

[SquidGod @SquidGodDev]

Observation 3:

I have a new surprising stream of income coming in soon. The way Youtube has opened some doors for me is still quite an incredible and novel experience. You'll have to wait until next month to see what it is.