A single architecture Apple Silicon build of Dottie fits on a 3.5" 2HD floppy disk with room to spare as it is only 970 KB compressed (2.2MB uncompressed; double the sizes for Universal build)
The key: no external frameworks or libs! Which is the same way I kept #YOYOZO so small
All graphics in #aquaplane are created using only shapes (line, rect, circle, polygon) an approach I used in my game #YOYOZO (GOTY 2023, remember?)
So I figured I'd keep on with the synthesised shtick and generate all the sound effects. SFXR! #love2d #indiedev #gamedev #sfxr
Really great! I'm currently on 17/80 and it's just on the right side of punishingly difficult. My kind of game.
ps: this is the same physics formula I use in my GOTY-2023-accolade-winning game #YOYOZO for Playdate
✨1-UP!✨ I'm 48 today.
Another loop around the sun completed. A year older & wiser & more disappointed in humanity.
Achievements from the past year: GOTY 2023 for my game #YOYOZO & my first DJ mix.
Things I'd have rather not had to deal with: health, harassment, shitheads.
A decorative cake shaped like outer spec with a protruding planet and stars and a rocket ship. below a shooting star appears with the message "YOU ARE THE YOYOZO MASTER"
One of the @play.date community traditions is the awarding of CAKE to any player who completes a lofty goal in a game.
Over the holidays the amazing Quinndini broke the 32-bit number limit of 2.147BN on #YOYOZO a score high enough to crash the game! 🍰
play.date/games/yoyozo/
My game #YOYOZO for Playdate has received a GOTY (Game of the Year) accolade from long-standing technology publication Ars Technica! 🤯
Listed alongside my heroes Nintendo! And compared with Super Hexagon and Geometry Wars... I think I've got something in my eye 🥺
arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/...
OMG! 🤯 #YOYOZO for @play.date is a GOTY! 🥹
arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/...
...alongside (abridged list)...
Chants of Sennaar
Cocoon
Dave the Diver
Humanity
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Pikmin 4
Puzzmo
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Venba
Viewfinder
Feeling a bit E-Motion-al... this is the game I was starting to make when I got the flash of inspiration for #YOYOZO
So let's try again! This prototype is using Love2D, but final thing would be for @play.date
The #YOYOZO top 10 online score board is now filled with yozillionaires! Congrats to @kyleor.land 🏆 play.date/games/yoyozo/
Well, there we have it! The 1 BILLION points ceiling has been well and truly broken by Quinndini in #YOYOZO 🤯🪀🚀🔥 play.date/games/yoyozo/
OMG things are really heating up at the top of the #YOYOZO online score board! This weekend I’m going to add some extra stuff for these high scorers. Let’s goooooooooooooooo! play.date/games/yoyozo/
There’s a new #YOYOZO hi score of 656M by Quinndini! So there's a gap to 2nd place greater than the highest score I thought I’d ever see! As a game developer, seeing somebody play your game with this level of skill and control is such a treat. 🪀💝
play.date/games/yoyozo/
#YOYOZO features in Playdate Catalog's Staff Picks 2023 "...perfect execution of a simple idea" play.date/games/staff-...
You can read about the dynamic music and sound effects used in #YOYOZO, and more of my games, in my latest blog post: blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/12/09/d...
Fore! Track was originally made in a week back in June, and I documented the process: blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/06/26/b...
Total time working on it up to this point is about a month. My previous game #YOYOZO was around the same.
A new blog post about the particle system in #YOYOZO:
"Easter egg emoji: converting pixels into particles"
blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/11/26/e...
My latest game #YOYOZO is OUT NOW on Playdate. You fling around a space yo-yo collecting stars and pulling tricks! 39 kilobytes of my finest work. Let me know what you think! play.date/games/yoyozo/
