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I've got some HOT PLAYDATE NEWS to celebrate a new king of the hill in Saturday Edition.

First off is there is a Playdate game you might actually be excited for now. Or at least I was excited for it I should say. Pretty big indie dev launched their game last week:

https://play.date/games/mars-after-midnight/

Mars After Midnight, brought to you by Lucas Pope. For those not intensely in the indie game scene, Lucas Pope's previous games are Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn. I happen to love both of those games and Mars After Midnight was the most anticipated game for Playdate since the launch titles by a very large margin. It's gotten universal acclaim so far on the discord, but honestly every single game does. It is an echo chamber there because a lot of the developers post there too and no one wants to be mean, which means it is hard to tell what is real hype and what is just overinflated. I'm really excited for this one though. I know literally nothing about it and I refuse to look into it. I want to go in blind. But I'd expect to see this one popping up here shortly.

Next is the Community Awards were streamed the other day! They did this back in 2023 as well for the 2022 releases. I just checked because I couldn't remember and Saturday Edition was actually a finalist for game of the year! It lost out to Ratcheteer which I also should be playing soon.

https://play.date/games/community-awards-2023-goty/

You can find the actual video on Youtube. The winner of the Game of the Year was Reel-istic Fishing with the runner ups being Root Bear, Gun Trials, and Resonant Tale. I've played...none of those so maybe some good stuff in my future! I actually hadn't played any of the 2022 Game of the Year nominees either besides Saturday Edition. Maybe my list is bottom heavy because I've been playing all the wrong games.

And, finally, as I referenced above, there are so few (and by few I mean zero) reviews of most of these Playdate games that I think some of the developers have started looking for feedback anywhere and found their way here. One I know did for sure because they put their name to it in an email! I'm including the email below because it was very nice:

I'm [redacted], from Cool Lemon Club. We just read your review for our game and we just needed to get in contact. Not only is one of the very few reviews we got -- the Playdate is a very niche console and getting attention is hard -- it is amazingly detailed and well written! It shows how deep you thought of our game and the time it took for you to complete and analyze it. We are reaching to you to express our sincere thanks for it.

We make games for this kind of moments, were an experience we crafted meant something to someone, and that someone leaved our product with something along them. Our intention with the Keyper was to create exactly what you described, word by word.

Thanks again for playing and for taking the time to write your impressions so thoroughly.

So if you have the Playdate, go check out The Keyper! I thought it was pretty ok and the developers seem like cool people. It is very unique and very weird, which I'm always a fan of at the very least.

This has, however, made things a bit more awkward going forward. I've gotten several anonymous messages that I'm assuming are people connected to certain games and now this email. I like posting thoughts here because I always assumed no one is going to read my stupid ramblings other than the handful of people that call this board home so I could basically say whatever I want. Knowing this feedback can (and has) made its way back to people is something I don't want to impact thoughts/rankings so hopefully it doesn't but who knows.