There might only be a handful of people you’ve heard from, but the truth is everyone who owns a Playdate is buying everything that shows up on itch for it because they all constantly want yet another fun thing to do new with that super cute device. It’s really addictive. Partially because they had to wait so long to get it that makes it a big deal and partially because the crank is getting used in genius ways. So there are whole games that never would have thought up were it not for the novelty of that. As the movie said: “I you build it, they will come.” If you reconsider, as I said I will provide video of each successive build running on the hardware. This could even be done over Facetime so you could tell me in real-time to try this or that to check specifics. A lot of developers have built great games this way especially at first when the device was scarce.
I get that you have other things going, but it would be worth your time. What I get out of it is helping a cool projects land on my favorite toy. So mull it over. You can get back to me in a month or six or whenever you’re ready if you decide to tackle it in Lua.
Best, Joe