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It's called @play.date the crank is just a part of the controller. I've coded it to zoom. Some games use it to focus a camera, or turn cranks in the game @bumbleborn.bsky.social or spin a surf board. All sorts of stuff.

Thats it, that's gotta be the name of the ship.

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Oh I see. Flying into a fractal is really cool :)

You're always slowly going into the fractal, and turning the crank will speed it up (or reverse it)

Loving this effect, maybe too busy to show continuously but definitely cool for things like scene transitions or power ups ✨

Nice

@bumbleborn.bsky.social has a game called Echo that has cranks in the world that you interact with the physical crank There's also a game where you control a surfboard, or focus a camera. Super cool stuff.

The @play.date just has a crank on it. It's up to the developer what it does. I'm also working on an L-systems style turtle draw program where it causes a little turtle to draw an image and it draws more of it with each turn of the crank.

Thank you!!! This has been so fun to make

this is wild and looks like a lot of fun

I really like it. It's definitely a completely different vibe compared to steam deck. You get 2 games a week automatically and there's a game store and tons of games on itch you can side load. I'm a big fan.

Also, 80s! That's right on the edge of it being "discovered". Super neat.

That's awesome! I wonder how this play date is going to handle the set. The resolution is only 400x240 so that's a plus, but that's still 96k points 😬 My grandfather did some Mandelbrot at work in the 80s-90s. I'm trying to get my hands on his old code but it might be lost to time 😔

Genuinely so cool

Koch snowflake actually!

Fair enough! 😂

Seems preatty cool dude

It will be on itch soon. I'm working on a few other parts for it still.

Also thanks 🙇‍♂️

This is in Lua. I'll be posting all the code here in a couple weeks. 😎

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this is how 25 years ago i imagined kaleidoscope technology should have been by now

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Inside a Star-filled Sky but you never actually reach the next level.

So special this console 🤩

iiinteresting

A fractal game?????

Haha, those fractals got me good for a minute. Nice idea!