Scary gray figures and giant bones. OUTSIDE PARTIES logo with red rune. “Audio/Visual Horror Scavenger Hunt for Playdate, $3 Off Through May 3, play.date/games/outside-parties”
OUTSIDE PARTIES for #Playdate is discounted $3 off, now through May 3.
Engadget review: www.engadget.com/gaming/outsi...
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2. BRIMSTONE: name for sulfur
—Sulpur: latin name
—Milos: historical island location of sulfur mines
3. LODESTONE: name for magnetite
—Terrella: spherical lodestone used to simulate Earth’s magnetosphere
—Sipylum: from the city of Magnesia ad Sipylum, possible early source of lodestones
1/2 Congrats to Ophelia Bee for figuring out 2 of the 3 team code names in my #Playdate game OUTSIDE PARTIES! (And Koke for the 3rd.)
1. BLOODSTONE: name for heliotrope
—Ematille: another name for it
—Nimble: The Nimble Ones of Scottish mythology, whose blood creates heliotrope
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🎈 Playdate turns 4 next week (April 18th!!) And we're excited to announce 🥁..... Playdate Season 3 🎉!
Coming later this year. 💫
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=sCWD4OjWTBU
A little extra nudge: all three team names are similar words…
Technology and the occult are a dangerous mix 🤣
3/3 Post answers in replies here, or via my website Support form, or in this Playdate Squad Discord channel:
devforum.play.date/t/outside-pa...
(If nobody gets the exact names, after a while I'll choose the closest response and post the correct names here.)
2/3 The mysterious Cristina Roccati Institute deploys teams of 2 to explore the “Outside.” Each team member has a code name, and 3 pairs are named in the game:
Ematille & Nimble
Sulpur & Milos
Terrella & Sipylum
You can infer all 3 TEAM names from these MEMBER names.
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Pixelart logo of 6 black spheres with "CRI" and slogan: No Mystery Too Deep, No Price Too Great.
1/3 I’m giving out a free Catalog download of OUTSIDE PARTIES, my #Playdate horror scavenger hunt game, to the first person who figures out the CODE NAMES of the 3 EXPLORATION TEAMS in the story.
The team names are never stated in-game, but there IS a pattern to them!
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Glad you’ve enjoyed them! There are instructions built in but yes, that’s one I can only read easily IF I keep in practice. If I stop using it for a couple days, even I have to go back and re-read what the beast parts mean!
My Playtime collection of 50 weird alarm clocks for #Playdate has been out for nearly 3 years. I think it’s time for a price drop! 40% off.
DON’T HURRY! This is not a limited time sale! The price is now $3.
play.date/games/playti...
Hear some of the spooky music from my #Playdate horror game OUTSIDE PARTIES in this Playdate game music compilation from @uncrankdpd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNZ...
966.8 free, good old Otto is the largest and “tamak.” is the smallest (20.9k). 110 games (and a few misc. tools) installed.
If you like audio horror with a female protagonist facing incomprehensible forces, what should you play?
Alice Isn’t Dead, the podcast audioplay, of course! 🚚💀
And I just discovered that a sequel podcast is coming April 13! Can’t wait! #horror #podcast
www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead
Today I learned you can re-wrap a #Playdate game to see its wrapping paper again: hold (A) until the new-game animation triggers (10 seconds).
Tips:
• Letting go early just launches the game.
• If you don’t let go when the animation happens, the game will unwrap immediately when you do let go.
The #Playdate Anniverary Sale is about to end (including a discount on Season 2: I say grab that for Taria & Como, Dig Dig Dino, and more). Reporting on the sale, Engadget just did another nice little write-up on my horror game OUTSIDE PARTIES:
#horrorgame #indiegame
www.engadget.com/gaming/playd...
The discount on OUTSIDE PARTIES found footage horror ENDS Thu 3/19!
Not your last chance, though… Click the 💛 in #Playdate Catalog to wishlist—then toggle whether to be notified of future sales: go to the bottom of Account>Wishlist.
Trailer video description has review links: youtu.be/BIKhbAgsMmI
Introducing Snaps, visual programming meets physical computing on the Playdate™!
Kids code wirelessly, controlling real electronics via a breadboard. No cables on the console, just pure creative freedom.
snapsedu.uk
#Playdate #Coding #STEM
Get ready to stream the #Playdate Community Awards on YouTube tomorrow/Saturday at 11am (corrected!) Pacific, 2pm Eastern! Tons of great games in tons of categories. (My horror game OUTSIDE PARTIES is up for a couple things.) #indiegame #handheldgaming
www.youtube.com/@PlaydateSquad
My #Playdate horror scavenger hunt game OUTSIDE PARTIES is now $3 off—and I just finished this new trailer (if you’re curious about the soundscape, visuals, and some non-spoiler lore). #horrorgame #indiegame #gamedev #handheldgaming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIKh...
Head-on Apple product photo of citrus-colored MacBook Neo. Top corners of screen are rounded, bottom are square.
Most shocking Apple developments today: the screen’s top corner radii, and the narrator in their video shortening the name to “your Neo.” #mac #macbookneo #macos #apple
FYI my #Playdate horror game OUTSIDE PARTIES will be discounted $3 off this Thursday, March 5, for Panic’s Catalog Anniversary sale. Click the 💛 by the price to wishlist it and be notified of sales: play.date/games/outsid...
The 2025 Playdate Community Awards will be on March 14th at 11AM Pacific Time/2PM Eastern Time
Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@PlaydateSquad
Award nominees thread starts here: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Discord: Discord: discord.gg/zFKagQ2
Wiki: playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_202...
#Playdate
Catalog Report 2026. Our Playdate game store by the numbers. 423 games available; 409,003 game purchases; top regions for game purchases: USA, CA, UK, DE, FR, AU. $1,399,393.69 paid out to Catalog developers. Average game price: $5.94. Average sale discount: 39%. Data as of 2/24/2026. Thank you for playing.
🧮 With our Catalog Anniversary Sale coming up on March 5, we thought we'd update you on some nice Catalog numbers. Many thanks to all our developers and players!
➡️ play.date/games
2025 Playdate Community Awards graphic for Sound Design, with title card screenshots from OUTSIDE PARTIES, The Whiteout, Blippo+, and Close Approach
2025 Playdate Community Awards graphic for Narrative, with title card screenshots from OUTSIDE PARTIES, The Whiteout, Blippo+, and Taria & Como
My game OUTSIDE PARTIES was nominated for Best Sound Design and Best Narrative in the upcoming 2025 #Playdate Community Awards. Fun!
Buy or wishlist it on Catalog… and grab the others too—I’ve played most of them and they are great!
Thanks and congratulations! (And there are 6 save slots, so even if someone else wants to play, you can keep your completed save. Games remain interactive to re-explore even after completion.)
That’s great to hear! Thanks for giving my game a shot!
My #Playdate horror game (still on discount for a few more hours!) just got a nice little review in Engadget:
“…a truly immersive, disconcerting experience that I previously wouldn't have thought possible on a Playdate. It's really something special.”
www.engadget.com/gaming/outsi...
Dithered grayscale art of a black snake-like creature trapped in a crystal.
This weekend is the last chance to get OUTSIDE PARTIES for #Playdate $3 off: play.date/games/outsid...
Also, version 1.2.3 is now available, with a range of small fixes and graphical enhancements.
OUTSIDE PARTIES (white logo with red rune). Red and white text on night photo of Playdate console in grass: Horror Scavenger Hunt Game for Playdate, $3 Off Sale Jan. 16–26. Bullet points: Zoom, pan, and crank the brightness to reveal details lost in shadow or glare. 150 targets to find, each with a subtitled voice signal revealing more of the mystery. 10–20 hours estimated play time. 750 searchable hints online. Catalog: play.date/games/outside-parties. Playdate screen shows 3 supernatural figures in a sinking boat with angle coordinates and text: CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?
My horror scavenger hunt game OUTSIDE PARTIES for #Playdate is on sale through Jan. 26, $3 off. Give yourself the gift of unease! (Not suitable for children.)
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