A year ago, I remember Panic responding to complaints about their announced lineup of games by almost entirely cis white dudes by saying “we’re working on it”.

Their first tweet in months is showing off 8 in-development games from the community, 6 of whom are by white men. https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1293636186045480960">https://twitter.com/playdate/...

I really really want to love the PlayDate. It clearly has had so much love and care put into it, and it exudes a sense of joy.

But, from the outside, it feels like Panic doesn’t care about fostering a diverse developer ecosystem with a variety of voices.

I feel bad tweeting about this. I don& #39;t want to spend my time criticizing indie co& #39;s building cool things.

But the PlayDate is EXACTLY something that I would LOVE to make weird experimental games for. It KILLS me that I have 0 interest in being part of their dev community.