[ngngngng]

I have two personal use cases

1) Myself, I grew up on a game boy color and I have a nostalgia for playing games where the developers were so bound by compute resources on the device they were developing for. It allowed smaller teams to be very competitive in game design but also enabled a different sort of creativity than what is commonly seen today in game design where resources are virtually unlimited. I've also been wanting to toy with game development for a while now. This seems like a neat and quirky way to jump in.

2) My kid, I think we've gotten far too good at making video games addictive for kids. I want my child to have video games the way I did, with simple graphics, stories and gameplay that come to an end, unlike games like fortnite that you can keep playing for eternity. Added benefit if he gets to experience trying to play games without a backlight using the streetlights to see as you drive down the road.

[Wheaties466]

ok I can see that.

Its just if I came across this website and didn't know any better. I'd 100% think this is some elaborate April fools prank.

look at the game titles. Forest Byrnes Up in smoke Casual Birder Executive Golf

It just seems like they're trying to hard not to be "cool" and trying not to take themselves seriously.

[deergomoo]

> It just seems like they're trying to hard not to be "cool" and trying not to take themselves seriously.

This is worded like a criticism but it’s exactly why I can’t wait to get one of these.

[agloeregrets]

Forest Byrnes is from Panic's prior published game, Firewatch.

[immy]

They’re in Portland. You just described Portland.