@adamsimmersive
Morgan Adams (he/him), adamsimmersive.com Freelance interactive designer/coder: 👾 games, 🖼️ museum exhibits, 🥽 VR, and 🕸️ websites. I build stuff for 🟨 #Playdate as well as 🟢🟠🔵🔴🟡🟣 Mind Magnets, my grid-based visual list-making app for iPhone/iPad.
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.)
play.date/games/outsid...
Gray website screenshot: Target Assistance title with “Enter the target identifier from the Log list.” A dark box containing “Your first target is the CRI channeling spire for this region: search the horizon for the tallest structure.” Then a rounded stack of hint rectangles 1 through 5: Minimal, Limited, Specific, Elevation (highlighted yellow with coordinate number), and Azimuth.
OUTSIDE PARTIES for @play.date now has a huge searchable hints/walkthrough site. Spoiler-free: you enter phrases from in-game to see hints.
750 hints total!
For each of 150 targets you can choose from 5 levels of help, from “Minimal” to full coords. #playdate
adamsimmersive.com/apps/outside...
If anyone wants to use the hints site for OUTSIDE PARTIES on #Playdate before it’s 100% done, here’s a test version: adamsimmersive.com/apps/outside...
(Most of the 150 targets in the game have 5 hints. Some in the middle of the game don’t—yet! The in-game QR code will point to the completed site.)
Last update of the year for OUTSIDE PARTIES on #Playdate: v1.2.2 is mainly just a little additional artwork (not changing any missions) and a couple of targets made easier to see, plus minor punctuation fixes.
If you spot some new figures, you didn’t cause them! (Details on Discord.)
Text “Choose one or more levels of assistance:” followed by a stack of 5 gray buttons with large numerals 1 through 5, labeled “Minimal,” “Limited,” “Specific,” then the last one is “Azimuth.” The second-to-last is highlighted yellow with no number or label, containing the text “”EL -34.66° (Vertical coordinate).”
A preview of the hints site for my #Playdate horror scavenger hunt, OUTSIDE PARTIES.
I’m writing multiple hints for each of the 150 targets in the game, giving you FIVE levels of spoiler-free help to choose from.
(There’s a QR for it in the System Menu and a link on the Catalog page.) #indieGame
Other changes in 1.2.1:
* New “Mission help” in system menu: QR code for upcoming hints website
* “Show full 360” now also re-centers the view
* Fixed Log scrolling weirdness when revisiting an already-completed game
* Fixed 1 launch card frame
* Fewer numbers stations vs. other sounds
Playdate text “I’m headed down to the shore, Nimble. I’ll transmit next from the ferry dock below here” then a white box: “CONTEXT—Press A to view the location where you acquired this signal: …WHERE THE SALT TRAIL LEADS”
v1.2.1 of my #Playdate #HorrorGame OUTSIDE PARTIES is out, with NEW features to re-orient you quickly after taking a break. Signal transcripts (hold A) now include this “Context box.”
“Below here” in this example relies on remembered context, so pressing A jumps you back to the “here” in question.
If you’ve enjoyed my #Playdate horror game… OR were deeply disturbed and that’s somehow what you want… Community Award nominations are open to 12/19! Thanks!
Some suggested categories:
Sound Design
Narrative Game
Visual Achievement, SDK
Launch Experience
Fewest Cute Puppies
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Great writeup! I’m the one person who can never truly experience my game (I know every detail already) so it’s fun to read how others experience it.
(I wish the gyro could work for the XY panning—I had more tilt ideas! But #Playdate only senses 2 axes—it can’t detect “turning in a circle” aiming.)
It's Outside Parties day from @adamsimmersive.bsky.social on Playdate Unofficial: www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/ou...
OUTSIDE PARTIES logo with red rune
v1.2.0 of OUTSIDE PARTIES (my #HorrorGame for #Playdate) is out:
* Many new background sounds + new common vs. rare weighting
* New launch card & icon FX
* Giftwrap has skull
* New timing of text vs. speech
* Art tweaks
Fixed:
* Rare auto-sleep crash
* Unwanted voice fragments
* Auto-sleep failures
To celebrate @helloplaydate.bsky.social's 💯th podcast episode, check out their curation of favorite Playdate games in Catalog! 🎉
🎧 Listen here: sites.libsyn.com/412607/hello-100
💛 Favorite games: play.date/games/hello-playdate-podcast-100/
Playdate game screenshot: text “No Mystery Too Deep, No Price Too Great” and logo “CRI” with six black spheres.
This is definitely an organization you can trust. #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #GameDev
From OUTSIDE PARTIES, available for #Playdate.
There's more info and screenshots at helloyellow.app. Voice chat on #Playdate is now a reality!
Playdate screenshot: table outdoors with 9 different chairs, a spilled chalice, and a severed goat-like head. Text: “ACQUIRED” and “HEMOFLUID—AGAIN. HOLD”.
Playdate screenshot: close-up on chalice and severed head. Text: “ON SEVERAL OF THE DEAD”.
A happy Thanksgiving from Outside Parties! Don’t fill up on demon head. #playdate #horrorgame
V 1.1 of my #playdate horror game OUTSIDE PARTIES is out. If you’re playing, grab the update!
No big changes, but many small bug fixes and improvements. I made a few images more clear.
It will auto-update or you can check manually in System/Game Library.
play.date/games/outsid...
My game contains many random easter eggs paying homage to other scary things. Anyone recognize “THE STRANGLING FRUIT”?
Playdate screenshot of a large hook. Text: coordinates and “THE STRANGLING FRUIT.”
Every game needs a good hook. OUTSIDE PARTIES for #Playdate.
#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #GameDev
