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For what it’s worth, support did send me a mail a few hours ago, and removed the accounts I reported (and a few more of the same that followed me later).

Currently, the deleted accounts still show up in my follower-page (but they link to 404s) – which I expect will get fixed over time (or not, I can live with it :-p – but the most important thing is that it’s handled at all).

Thanks, I’ve taken your advice and done just that :-)

Yesterday evening (local time) I suddenly got followed by 9 accounts, which all have the following in common:

• default avatar image
• three to five numbers after their name
• the letters before the numbers are arranged consonant/vowel/consonant/vowel, etc.
• created approximately within an hour or two of following me
• started following me within a very short time-span (basically all at the same time)
• follow 3 or 4 other accounts, but nothing else on their accounts (as far as I can see at least)

This is surprising to me, since those now form just over half of my followers all of a sudden.

So, I guess my question is, what’s up with that? Am I being used to make their accounts less suspicious? (If so, they’re not doing a very good job.)

Hi! Thanks, I do hope it is fun!

The level-editor is a separate program (not on the Playdate itself) that runs either online or on the desktop. You can then connect to the Playdate to put the level on – either via (web)serial or just placing it on the disk via USB.

That shouldn’t be different for the Catalog version.

Perhaps this isn’t clear from the description, so I should edit it as to not confuse people.

P.S. The only real ‘online’ functionality –that will be added when it launches for Catalog– is the scoreboards (for the time-trials). I’ll probably release that update for itch as well, but it comes with some caveats – as you of course need to connect your Playdate to a Playdate-account & put the game on there via USB instead of the ‘Sideload’ functionality on their website (as that last bit will do something with the ‘bundle-id’ apparently).

Crank to swim!

Dolphin Splash! by newly minted one-person-company Spelbaar, is a game for the Playdate handheld – a machine with a crank. Steer a dolphin through over twenty levels of treasure-hunts and time-trials, only using the crank (some buttons required for menu-ing, alternate control scheme provided).

Race your own recorded ghost, get medals and achievements, or upload your own created levels to the device.

Out today on itch! (Or wait until August to get it on the device store-front.)