Playdate Pulp is out in beta, letting you make your own Playdate games

destructoid.com:

The Playdate, Panic’s boutique handheld with a crank, is still on its way. But while you’re waiting, Panic has put out a public beta for its Playdate Pulp tools, letting anyone who wants to make a Playdate game in a free, browser-based environment.

Pulp was one of many features teased for the Playdate in its first Update stream last year. The idea is that Pulp will allow anyone, whether you’ve made a game before or not, to experiment in the development sandbox. Panic says that Pulp can scale from “goofing around to building a full Playdate game.”

Playdate Pulp is now available in public beta!! Pulp is a super fun (and free!) game making tool for Playdate. With a few clicks, anyone can turn a game idea into Playdate reality. https://t.co/cWPGcxFDhi pic.twitter.com/C1qtbJpgGd

— Playdate (@playdate) January 19, 2022

As a development studio, Pulp has a lot of features available. There are drawing and animation tools, a level editor, chiptune and sound tools, and even a code editor. Even though the Playdate still hasn’t shipped as of this writing due to supply issues, anything you make is also preview-able in browser, and you can easily download the source code for your project, either to share or, eventually, play on a Playdate.

Our internal Pulp Game Jam has ended, giving us six great games that push the limits of what we thought Pulp was capable of. Let's take a look.

Remember, Pulp is our browser-based game making tool, coming in January, an easy, approachable, fun way for anyone make Playdate games. pic.twitter.com/E2ce9qRwwL

— Playdate (@playdate) December 2, 2021

For budding game developers, or even those who just want to mess around with some tools, this seems pretty neat. Playdate Pulp seems to be a pretty