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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 5h

#justbeatit Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest Fun gated exploration platformer with a convincing GBC aesthetic. If it really was a GBC game it would’ve been amazing; now it’s just good. On my way to 100% it too. Also the playtime is lying, it took me double that time. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 04/10/2026

Next week I’ll stream the @play.date game Long Puppy by @indiana-jonas.com for charity! Tune in and donate for the World Central Kitchen (and a fun time). twitch.tv/polymedianet...

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 01/10/2026

Progress on my @play.date game: Cranky Miner. I added backgrounds, screen transitions and a nice upgrade screen! To do this all I had to do some sprite optimizations so the game should run better too. As a bonus I added rare items to find! #gamedev #indiedev #playdate #playdatedev

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 25/09/2026

#justbeatit The Keyper Simplistic game where you’re looking for keys and doing fetch quests in a very nonsensical labyrinthian building with a lot of backrooms. Very hard to navigate but has quite a lot of story to tell. Wouldn’t have beaten it without a walkthrough. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 23/09/2026

Update of my #playdate game! Today I added an animated title card, a wrapping paper (you have to unwrap the game after download) and an icon. There's combos in the game now, which makes scoring interesting! I uploaded this version to the catalog for review! Fingers crossed. #indiegame #gamedev

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 19/09/2026

#justbeatit Maze Mice Combination of Pacman and a survivors-like. Insanely grind heavy game but because there's a little skill involved it was a fun time-waster for me. Took me 13h to finally unlock and beat the 4th maze. There's many more achievement, but I'm good. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 15/09/2026

Gold Miner It's the main inspiration for my game. An old flash game which I didn't play for at least 12y. I figured let's check it out and idk why it's popular because it's almost impossible to Game Over and therefor very boring. Looped it and called it a #justbeatit. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 15/09/2026

Made a title screen and got the (randomized) upgrade system fully working as well as other gameplay enhancements and tweaks. I'm doubting about adding screen transitions (might be a lot of work), but I kinda like how snappy it is too. Kinda want to finish and release the game this month.

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 08/09/2026

More progress on my @play.date game. Dynamic music, menu sounds, more juice with particles and numbers which go up. Who doesn't like those? All logic for the upgrade system is in place, now I need to implement it. My first game ever is getting somewhere! #indiedev #gamedev #playdate

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 04/09/2026

#justbeatit Echo: The Oracle Scroll Good gated exploration platformer Playdate. Took me over 3 hours to get credits and only got half of the main collectibles. Enjoyed my time but there was some tedium around falling down platforms and redoing sections a lot. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 01/09/2026

No upgrade system yet... got distracted by adding juicy particles (and solving bugs) #playdate #gamedev

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 31/08/2026

This making the list of this HD texture pack meme longer while trying to sell us more expensive shit

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 31/08/2026

Decided to finally tackle the character sprite for my @play.date game.. next up: implement the roguelike upgrade system!

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 25/08/2026

Good to have some playtesters ready to try out my work in progress

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 22/08/2026

Attempting to make my first game, this is what I got out of the first hours. I had a cool idea based on a Flash game classic for the @play.date. Do you know what game it’s inspired on?

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 17/08/2026

#justbeatit 1 2 3 D Weird little free jam game with an interesting mechanic where you can change perspectives on the fly. Good idea & decent execution. I wish it was more of a game and less of a proof of concept. Also didnt know what the 0D is for. krias.itch.io/123d @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 09/08/2026

#justbeatit Mock-Mock A very short and tiny Pico8 game where you have to figure out the game rules every level to count down the number 5. It also followed the Pico8 naming scheme I love (two of the same word starting with a M). cheesemug.itch.io/mock-mock @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 31/07/2026

#justbeatit LOK Digital Very clever word puzzle game. I was afraid it was a word search game, but you only have to find 5 letter combinations of 4 characters max. Letter combinations have a power to clear puzzles. Can't wait to play the paper games from the creator. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 23/07/2026

#justbeatit Soko Striker by @axylaric.com Very competent free sokoban puzzler where you have to kick all the balls in the goal. Fun build up of mechanics throughout the 30 puzzles. Also original theming! Had fun beating this while drinking my morning coffee. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 19/07/2026

#justbeatit Mole Mole @adamatomic.bsky.social Great pico8 puzzler which combines sokoban, boulder dash and bomberman. Good difficulty progression and explanation of new rules. Strong recommendation for puzzle perverts. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 18/07/2026

#justbeatit Matchy Matchy Interesting puzzle mechanics which is similar to match-3. Unfortunately the challenge is a bit self imposed and the puzzles have little difficulty progression. I think there could be done more with this concept. ilkke.itch.io/matchy-matchy @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 18/07/2026

#justbeatit Moss Moss @noelcody.bsky.social Brilliant little free exploration platformer. A simple premise, stellar execution indiegame. Goal is to put moss on all red tiled floors, walls and ceilings in a multiscreen world. Very satisfying! noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 04/07/2026

#justbeatit Star Fox EX Played the original game with this romhack for some framerate optimizations. Didn’t die once on the easy path. Still after all these years this game is a vibe. Very nostalgic for me! @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 03/07/2026

#justbeatit Chance's Lucky Escape A point & click adventure for Playdate by @golosogames.bsky.social. I loved their GBC game which was a bit more involved. However this is a very competent little game which uses the playdates features and has nice music and graphics. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 03/07/2026

#justbeatit The WereCleaner Cool little free game where you have to clean offices as a werewolf, preferably without getting detected or else you kill and you have to clean even more! Presentation is fantastic especially the cutscenes. Problem is I hate stealth games. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/07/2026

#justbeatit Postmouse Student-made 3d platformer. Great looking but because of the realistic environments the platforming can be pretty jank. Also this game didn’t run well on my PC so guess it’s not well optimized? Apart from some frustrating sections still fun game! @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/07/2026

#justbeatit Hotshot Racing Great arcade racer with a great untextured polygon art. Sega arcade vibes, but honestly the drift focus is more like Mario Kart without weapons. My only complaint is that the opponents are super aggressive. Lots to unlock if you’re into that. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/07/2026

#justbeatit Ord. Quite inventive little game which does much with very little. Play through stories only consisting of 3 words. 1 word and 2 choices to pick from to continue. A lot of branching paths in the stories which get creative. It does have timeloop vibes. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/07/2026

#justbeatit Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To A panel de pon clone with some extra special abilities and a lot of endlessly talking queer characters. The gameplay and the presentation during the gameplay where very solid though. Sadly I really suck at it! @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/07/2026

#justbeatit Tetris NES Trying to get a high score for the classic gaming podcast. Got higher in the past but in the meantime I’ll post this beat screenshot. All timer game for me, the NES one might still be one of the best variants, except it doesn’t have multiplayer. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/07/2026

#justbeatit Darkenstein 3D @rowye.bsky.social Absolutely fantastic blast from the past FPS, with tons of exploration and lot of laughs. And it’s free! I do not often 100% achievements but when I do you know I liked it. Brought it to the IndieQuest podcast go listen! @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 26/06/2026

Rate my Steam Sale shopping cart before I pull the trigger.

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 23/06/2026

You don't have to buy new shit to play cool games. Just grab a Switch Lite out of the paws of a kid and start playing banger after banger.

modern games which run on OG Switch:
- Death's Door
- Inscryption
- Neon White
- Tinykin
- Cocoon
- Sea of Stars
- Animal Well
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
- Hades II
- Minishoot' Adventures
- Mina the Hollower
- Well Dweller
- Tenebris Somnia

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 12/06/2026

#justbeatit Tetris DX One of my all time faves. Was grinding for better 40-lines mode times and figured to do a marathon game. Got the best ending first (lousy) try. My best score is double that, but a beat is a beat. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 08/06/2026

#justbeatit Trip World Most expensive game I own. It’s a Kirby like game where almost non of the enemies do damage except the bosses which are half 1on1 fighting games. Short but polished. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 01/06/2026

#justbeatit Carrot Kingdom (pico8) Free and short Öoo-like metroidbrania. Took me 20m44s to beat but there's absolutely some clever puzzling happening in this inventive platformer. Quality over quantity. Go play it! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156... @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 27/05/2026

#justbeatit Jurassic Park (Game Gear) Nice little movie licensed platformer. Normally these are quite bad but amazed by the gameplay variety & graphics of this game. Driving shmup, linear and exploration stages. Only bummer is there’s no GG rendition of the JP music. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 22/05/2026

#justbeatit Double Duck GBC homebrew puzzle platformer where control two ducks connected to eachother. You can turn one duck around the other by a press of a button and you have to navigate both through some devious puzzley levels. Good fun but very difficult! @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 21/05/2026

#justbeatit Forbidden Solitaire Solitaire for creepypasta loving hipsters. This game wants to be Inscryption but it doesn’t nearly touch the brilliance. I felt I couldn’t be good at it due its randomness but still good addictive fun. Didn’t overstay its welcome. 8/10 @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 03/05/2026

#justbeatit Blue Prince Absolutely enthralling puzzle game which kept us busy for hours late in night. We just couldn’t stop playing its so good. It felt a bit abusive with the randomness, but we pushed back and got to the end. There’s still many mysteries left though! @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 13/04/2026

Made one of these get to know me by video games list. Favorite protagonist is Y.V. from Nuclear Throne. Also I like Dracula as antagonist in anything. Honestly I don't want any remake but Stunts could be cool as a reboot. And I decided 80s is retro for this. Quote repost with your own! grids.fun

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 02/04/2026

#justbeatit Linelith Great little puzzle game where you walk around as a rock solving line trace puzzles. The rules are simple but the game keeps throwing surprises at you which makes it fun to go clean up with your new knowledge. Perfect rewarding difficulty curve. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 26/03/2026

#justbeatit Strange Jigsaws Inventive puzzle games based around, you guessed it, jigsaw puzzles. Good puzzles and there was absolutely some strangeness, less then I hoped though! Also puzzles based around words/cyphers/letters I just brute forced since I had no clue. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 23/03/2026

Lets do this as well. Enough bangers to pick from 😅

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 19/03/2026

#justbeatit Minishoot’ Adventures Enjoyed this one a ton! While its a bit lacking in presentation and character charm, the gameplay and map design are stellar. It’s like a more open ended 2D Zelda but twin stick shooter combat. So fun I went for true ending/100% @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 27/02/2026

#justbeatit Smushi Come Home Like I was expecting this is a talky-heavy platformer. I hate the trend of verbal diarrhea from a lot of npcs. Let me experience the otherwise great mechanics and exploration. Took me around 3h to beat could’ve been 2h without the crap. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 18/02/2026

#justbeatit Mario vs Donkey Kong (GBA) Worse in every way to DK94 on the original Game Boy. The the controls around ropes are completely borked. The first few worlds where no challenge and last required annoying precision. There’s a lot of post game but can’t be arsed @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 15/02/2026

#justbeatit With the last moonbeam Story heavy modern GBA platformer with a nice pixel artstyle. Quite fun mechanics but unfortunately I ran into a softlock while playing it on the plane. Took me ages to find out I had to load a save to recover & beat it. @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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wiedo - Making Cranky Miner 💎 for Playdate 🟨 @wiedo.nl · 13/02/2026

#justbeatit Hungry Harry 3D Impressive 3d platformer made in Pico-8. How is this possible with these limitations? Feels like how a 3d platformer would’ve been on an old microcomputer. Inspiring that basic could still be fun. paloblancogames.itch.io/hungry-harry... @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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