[DEV] Flip your cellphone into a brand new sort of handheld console!

Hey everybody!

I've at all times beloved taking part in quick video games on my cellphone (Pico-8, GB Studio…),however truthfully, touchscreens simply don’t really feel proper. No tactile suggestions, no controller “really feel,” and my thumbs at all times get misplaced.

For this reason I began engaged on Playtiles: pocket-sized, electronic-free controllers that you just stick onto your cellphone like a Gecko’s foot to remodel it right into a gaming handheld.

Suitable with any fashionable cellphone of at the very least 68mm extensive (Android but additionally iOS), it comes with an ecosystem:

Season 1 Video games: a curated drop of quick, handcrafted GB Studio video games delivered weekly for 12 weeks. Playtiles OS: a light-weight web-based launcher that runs your recreation library — no set up wanted. You may as well sideload any GB studio video games.

You’ll be able to study extra right here: I’d actually recognize your ideas. That is nonetheless early, and group suggestions means the whole lot at this stage!

An EARLY prototype of the Playtile, caught on the display screen, with the video games library opened.