If you'd like to play The Fall of Elena Temple, but do not yet have a Playdate, you can give the Playdate Simulator a try. Go here and install the SDK for Windows, Mac or Linux. After the installation, start the Simulator and click File- Reveal Data folder. This will take you to where the data for all installed Playdate games is on your computer. Go up once, to the Disk folder, then open the Games folder.

After you've purchased the game and downloaded the latest zip, extract the files to the Games folder mentioned above. Close the Simulator if it's open and start it again. The game card for The Fall of Elena Temple should appear somewhere above the Settings card. Press A to start playing. You can control Elena with the keyboard to move and jump. Press B on the Simulator to pause the game while inside a room. Use the crank widget on the bottom right by rotating it counterclockwise to restore Elena to a previous position, once you've collected an undo crystal.

Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to help out. Please remember that The Fall of Elena Temple is developed for Playdate and playing it on another OS is a workaround, not the intended way to play the game.

Hope this works for you and you can try out the game. And I hope your Playdate arrives soon!

The crank doesn't seem to be working for me ): In fact, after I tried using it the arrow keys / A S stopped moving Elena in game also, but I can still press the buttons on screen to move her. Not sure if I'm just totally missing something, and I restarted the room and tried a couple more times, but I can't get the undo to work by moving the crank. I tried re-docking the crank to get the arrow keys to work again but that didn't work either. Any suggestions?

Sorry to hear about the issues. Regarding the undo, the crank should be rotated counterclockwise, almost a full circle. But you need to collect an undo crystal first and to have fallen from somewhere, making a little number appear. The first room doesn't have an undo crystal, as it's more of an introductory level. You can finish the room easily in case you didn't already, then in the second room you'll be introduced to the undo. Maybe you've done that already, if not please give it a try.

As for the keys not working anymore after trying the crank, I managed to reproduce this on the Simulator. I know it's a disappointing answer, but unfortunately I have no control over how the Simulator behaves. What happens is that once you click anywhere on the Docked checkbox, the angle textbox or its up/down buttons or the slider, it takes the focus away from the game and puts it on the clicked widget.

SOLUTION: The good news is that you can avoid running into the controls issue. You do not need to click the Docked checkbox or the other widgets to rotate the crank. You only need to click inside the crank circle (the one on the right) and drag the indicator around counterclockwise. This does not cause the game to lose focus.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you run into more issues. And thank you for trying out the game!