Playdate Pulp tool lets you make a game right in your browser

Panic, the company behind the Playdate handheld, has launched a public beta of its Playdate Pulp in-browser game builder that will allow you to make games for the device through your web browser. The company characterizes it as "a friendly tool for making tiny but visually and narratively rich games for Playdate."

You'll be able to make pixel graphics, build levels, write music, and even create custom fonts in the Pulp editor. You can test your game right in your browser while you're working on it, and when you're finished, you can export it as a .pdx file and load it into a Playdate handheld. To develop a game with Pulp, you don't need to write any code, but you can use the PulpScript scripting language if you wish.

Panic said the first Playdate shipments will arrive in 2022. Pre-orders for the device are still available, however, Panic warns on its Playdate store website that purchases placed now will not ship until the end of the year.