@aras very cool! builds and runs out of the box on Mac without even checking the readme for build instructions (e.g. just "cmake .. && cmake --build ." from within a build/ subdir)
@demofox@aras Even before getting temporal: pre-sharpening before quantization, and using spatial error diffusion. And temporally, there is that interesting question of making it blue in time with fixed position, or blue in time with reprojected position (which is seriously hard, but would be fun to try on a GPU). Aras, it's inspirational to see blue 1-bit/pixel on that device, had been hoping others would have done that instead of fixed dither patterns :)
@Biovf shh don’t get your hopes up, it’s just a handful of simple fx thrown together. Do you have the device tho? Could send you a build “for testing” ;)
All of the talk over the last few weeks about startups shipping unfinished hardware reminds me, and not for the first time, what a triumph the #playdate is. The whole @panic crew worked so hard to deliver something that fulfilled expectations and then some against challenges (like a global pandemic and supply chain fiasco) that would have leveled others.
@film_girl Thank you so much for saying this!!! It means a lot. We don’t really toot our own horns and sometimes I wonder if people even notice us in the grand scheme of things…
In case you have somehow managed to miss it, AmigoTracker is a Protracker module music player for Playdate. It plays most 4 channel mod formats and has nice mustache.
Available on itch (sorry, didn't make the cut for Catalog).
finally felt comfortable enough with the new version of the game to update the main poster gif shown on the catalog page (and elsewhere) – https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/
ultimate comparison shot below. gif 1 is the old build, dated around september/october of 2023. gif 2 is the new build, work in progress; gif captured today
i spent today working on adding a CPU, and he's now up to parity with vers. old (can follow the course; can crash; can beat player) — collisions are next
