3 Years Later, Playdate Is Still Gaming’s Best-Kept Secret

“Panic gave the platform a playful and friendly character from the start, and promoted an openness that other platforms simply don’t have, allowing anyone to cheaply and easily make games for it with a variety of different tools,” says Nicola Cocchiaro, a veteran developer and software engineer. After working on Red Dead Redemption 2, he set up his own studio Synaptic Sugar in 2022, “to explore options to make my own games: smaller in scope but still polished, centering around hopefully…