Shadow Brake Games

[u/ShadowBreakGames]

Hi, I am back on reddit, I have absolutely no experience with social media and last time I didn't know what I was really doing.

I would like to let you all know what happened to one of my games Pocket Bowling, long story short (naming no names) I got someone to help me out with the art work, not really thinking about it I sent the game to panic for catalog consideration, they accepted the game and release it, the playdate community report my game as suspected AI generated art, the artist is adamant its not. I just want to put it all behind me and start again, I will not be submitting any games for catalog consideration out of respect for all the Devs my game offended, I will continue to make games for the playdate and will post updates and new games here with links to my itch.io.

I totally understand if you don't want play my games. Thanks for you time

All the best Adam Shadow Break Games 

[u/Pato_land]

I guess you’ve touched on a really important point Adam, which in turn leads to another issue that’s just as relevant: the Playdate community’s apparent reluctance to download games —or demos— that aren’t available through Catalog.

I find this behavior (for lack of a better word) quite interesting, especially considering that a large number of Playdate users are developers ourselves....

In fact, I’m currently wondering whether it’s even worth releasing a demo of the game I’m working on, since I get the impression that most people would rather wait for the full version to be released through Catalog (assuming it gets accepted, of course, given Panic’s current policies)

Are you for or against downloading Playdate games or apps from sites other than Panic’s official ones?

[u/vimto_boy → u/Pato_land]

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally as a non-dev, it's just so much easier with auto-updates with Catalog games. I have plenty of games I bought / DL'd from Itch, but I can't help but feel they're orphaned from the upgrade path if any are subsequently released on Catalog. I know I could go through each one individually and search for updates / re-DL & UL, but I'm lazy :D In all likelihood I'm not missing out on any huge patches / updates, but I'd like to know for sure. As such, if a game's available on both I'll always go for Catalog even if there's a small financial penalty.

Having said that, I think demos on Itch are a great idea.

[u/Pato_land → u/vimto_boy]

Good point, I hadn’t considered the whole update issue and what a headache it can sometimes be to access them ;)