Totally a gimmicky little thing, but it seems to be well built and the couple games I played are fun. Got it to see if I can make anything playable on this thing, and I have a tiny bit of experience with programming arduinos, but haven’t actually looked into it at all.
Anybody else has one of these and do you guys have any thoughts?
30+ upvotes and no responses. I can’t say I’m surprised. This thing has a small community outside of the Arduboy forums.
Either way, I got some time to fart around with some random games and it’s *really *fun. I love the Game and Watch physical type feel and the “anybody can make a thing” attitude and I’ve been mesmerized by some of these games longer than I thought I would have. Not every game is fascinating, but every one was made by an amateur on a constrained platform and the whole platform feels like a long form Wario Ware game where every game varies from 30 seconds to several minutes. It’s genuinely sweet, I love discovering new games on this thing.
I love the idea of people developing games for a very limited, black and white console and this thing doesn’t cost $200 like the Playdate. That’s almost an entirely different one of these, but they’re in the same realm and you shouldn’t discount it.
It obviously won’t emulate your Game Boy games, but it comes stock with a bunch of little 2 minute games that a passionate and loving community that loves retro games and maybe hates Christmas made.
I’m still waiting for mine, but it’s on its way. I’m particularly looking forward to playing all the Game and Watch remakes on it. I might even make some games of my own.
Hadn’t heard of this before but looks interesting and fun! Found any good games for it?
It came loaded up with a bunch of games, so I’m still going through all of them and don’t remember the names.
It does have breakout and snake though. Hopefully I’ll stumble on a Tetris.
