Crystal Daze

Crystal Daze is an underground action score-chasing game for the luscious, lovable Playdate handheld.

In the game, you strive to help the King to recover his Kingdom - grab crystals using your Playdate's crank and find power-ups to aim for a high score, while avoiding the crystalline growth and the feral creatures (as well as any coding bugs). I started making this game as my first foray into Playdate development a few weeks back, using stock Pulp. It is currently in an "early access" phase, with many things still planned. It's not perfect, it's not finished yet, but it is playable.

More development planned, with an ongoing devlog in the Playdate Squad Discord but hope you enjoy!

Current Features

• 6 levels to crank your way through, one for each weekday and then some
• Action-packed end sequence
• Unlockable Score Attack mode for a quick blast challenge
• Game auto-saves after you complete each level, so you can quit, make a cup of tea, come back, and continue
• High score table to track your 3 best scores
• A very badly drawn title screen

Future Work

• More better graphics
• Actual sounds

Handy Information

This game contains mild threat from lightly-animated 1-bit bugs, and is probably appropriate for general audiences.

This game uses the D-Pad, A button, and rapid, inaccurate use of the crank.