[yoz-y]

Also it’s a handheld for which it will be (if all works as advertised) very easy to develop.

One thing that irks me is that the Dev environment is clearly at least public beta ready. I’d like to see and try it before preordering though.

[ianai]

Agree - like they should want people developing to it before it's released. This effectively gives them a rather odd lock-out period from the larger community.

[nickflood]

They addressed the SDK availability here - https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1400849495198289920?s=19

Basically, they don't have resources yet to open it up and support it enough for people to have good experience with it.

[cableshaft]

I don't think that's a good enough reason. They could make it a 'use at your own risk' type situation and/or let people band together in a group and talk out and try to work through any issues they have without their involvement.

You need to let people start getting ready for this any way you can, especially as this is a potentially niche product that's not going to have any major developers working on it.

Best I can do right now is work on game logic elsewhere and try to be ready to do a port when they finally go public with it, hopefully before its official release.

[jonny_eh]

> You need to let people start getting ready

Maybe they don't? They seem to have plenty of games coming out in time for launch from great developers.