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Paralysed

By BuFaw on January 3, 2026 12:26 pm

2025 was difficult for me because of getting headstache when I do something on a screen, but I'm feeling better even if I don't feel perfectly well.

I really would like submit a song every week but it seems like I can't do this right now...

I started to make a programm for the handheld console named "playdate". This song is made with that selfmade programm (without samples). Here is a gif of that programm:

My goal is to make it possible to implement songs in playdate games to reduce the file size because the playdate has only 4 GB and a normal game should have up to 40 MB. (The save file of the song has 200 kB.)

Maybe I want to sell this program but it is inspired by nanoloop for android so I'm not sure I'm allowed to do that... (That 2x8 pattern was a 4x4 pattern before lol)

Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

January 5, 2026 5:27 am

gesceap

this looks like a great idea, you should submit something you make with it
i look forward to hearing more

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January 5, 2026 4:06 pm

DJ Saint-Hubert

cool tech behind this

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January 7, 2026 12:37 am

DataJanitor

Hey, the dedication is admirable and it is a catchy tune

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January 7, 2026 7:42 pm

fetalface

Neat! I'm always impressed by the cool tools folks on here use (& develop!!) and the track had me rockin back & forth

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January 7, 2026 7:42 pm

fetalface

actually side to side

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January 8, 2026 10:54 am

WahSp

It must feel so satisfying to build your own tool and then produce music with it! Great work!

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January 10, 2026 9:02 am

BuFaw

Thanks for the feedback.

To be fair I only used the sound programming commands of the lua playdate developement documentation and I have no clue how to make a program generating sounds without that but of course it was still a lot of work.

The song of the next week is already finished. While it felt a bit slow making the first song because of some bugs and missing shortcuts it felt much better making the second song after fixing that stuff.

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January 11, 2026 8:34 am

DESLRV

That is quite the feat.
- Devieus

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January 19, 2026 1:23 am

tuyieu.beats

nice1, m8

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January 28, 2026 9:26 pm

Earp Lug

This is so cool! Found it through your most recent song appearing at the top of my page and clicking the link that linked back here. I can't wait to see where you go this year

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