This is rad! As a big tama fan, what I'd like to see added is care-based evolution trees for the pets as well as less 'real world' animal designs and more just weird little guys like the traditional tama design. I think the battle system looks cool and the overall interface is really neat! Have you thought of having a breeding/generation system that uses inherited 'genetic' traits like the Tama M!x?

This looks great! I was also obsessed with tamagotchis as a kid. It's interesting to hear your thought process and game design decisions, and the final result with the grid-based battle system influenced by what you feed your pet was very clever - looks to be an addicting addition, keep up the great work! Subscribed awhile back, always looking forward to seeing more (and your continued work on the roguelite)!

I love the way this turned out! you definantly improved upon the tamagotchi formula ^-^

Very cool. Love that you keep doing different things with the Playdate and the end result looks so polished! I said it before in a different video but once I have mine I'll play all your games.

I love it! You are so creative with a simple idea of what tamagotchi could be! Definitely would play ;)

that is so awesome!! i love what you’re doing with the play date and all the games you have been working on!

Just subscribed! Don’t even have a play date but watching you develop games like tamagotchi is truly inspiring!

Dude. Your video made me really excited and I was ready to try to make a Digimon version but then I remembered there’s already a wonderswan version or any of the handheld games.

Overall, I am really impressed by how quickly you can put thinkgs together, gather assets, do the animation and make the sound effects. Any tips on how to efficiently use Aseprite or make sounds ? :)

You did a great job! This makes me want to buy one of these and learn how to design and program for it

I couldn't believe you actually made something about tamagotchi, I want to make my own! Love your other videos too.

Well worth the 2 week effort. The narrative was entertaining to watch throughout the video. Also, "I ran this picture through a dithering algorithm" has got to be the catchphrase of this series of videos xD

You are so underrated! Great video editing skills and awesome video in general!

I absolutely love this! I'm a massive fan of Pokémon games and I noticed the farming mechanics is actually a little similar to how berries operate within the Pokémon games. I think it'd be cool if different items you're farming take different amounts of time. You could add stages of growth and watering the plants regularly as they progress would give you more food items. Your plant wouldn't need to die just because you didn't water it. That kind of a mechanic could be implemented, but I feel it'd only make sense on rarer food items that give special effects.

I love the way this turned out! you definantly improved upon the tomagachi formula ^-^

Thank you for showing Tamagotchi: Corner Shop, I've had memories of that game in my head for months but couldn't remember which game it was!

I love this project! I had the blue diginmon and some kind of dalmatian one when I was about 5 or 6 and now I kinda miss them. Might have to check one of these out. Thanks!

Wow... amazing creation on this little console! Inspirational!

THIS LOOKS SO FUN. I can't wait to try the battle minigame!

Dude how are you able to come up with so many creative ideas? The biggest thing that holds me back into even attempting game development is the fact that the most difficult part seems to be coming up with actual fun ideas that others would enjoy

Yo beacuz of your videos now i am DREAMING of having a playdate.Keep going and one day you will be a LOT better

Man your videos are great. Having a playdate for Christmas 🥳🥳🥳

I really love this! :O I'm probably going to buy a playdate specifically for this since I'm very into collecting v-pets ^-^ (and the playdate is actually cheaper than some tamagotchi models x.x )

I was looking for a good virtual pet game and this is the best one yet so I’m planning I get a play date for Christmas also I really like all your other games and I make sure I watch each one of your videos.

So frikn creative!!! Incredible work! I cant wait to play!!!!

Really cool! I've also started playing with a tamagotchi and I think I enjoy the passive caring you have to do for it, but it's really cool how you're adapting it for a more active play session. Have you considered (if you even can) adding a clock to work with the game so you can see your pet while the game is in standby mode? I'm not sure if that is even possible but it'd be cool to still have that passive caring through out the today you have to do.

Awesome work. I would probably do mine the way you made your game, it looks good

As someone who absolutely loves Tamagotchis since childhood, I really love your take on the original games! What I would personally add are collectible toys and items which the pet can interact with. On original Tamagotchis, the pets had evolutions that determined whether the pet was a toddler, kid, adolescent, or adult and according to this it went to school, could use different items (or interact with the ones it could previously use differently) and even get a job! Since you used animals I don't think it would make sense to add evolutions, but maybe it could be level based? It would definitely motivate people to level up to unlock more content. So yeah, items, schools (which depended on the Tamagotchi skills such as kindness, style and intelligence), and jobs would make the game more coherent with elder Tamagotchis, I think most of the things I mentioned were added between version 3 and 4. Also, look up Tamagotchi town, I don't know if you can make something similar here but as a child, I would spend a lot of time connecting my Tamagotchis to the tama-town website to get unique items, events, and rewards.

You have made me want a Playdate sooo much, im saving up for one

I’m joining your patreon when mine come these look like so much fun!

I had a tomagachi as a kid with a whole bunch of mini games that you could unlock as you played and they would reward money that you could spend on food and more games.

Great work! I love tamaguchi back is was a kid. You really make a wonderfull and very interesting game, but planting and monster battleing not what goes to my mind for tamaguchi, but if you make an rpg you can do wanders with thet mimic and cyclops :)

Wow this game looks so awesome! Great job!

thats awesome, i would have like to have evolutions just like digimon but i know that would be a lot more sprites and way more time. still, pretty cool how much you were able to do in such a short amount of time. wish i had a playdate

This is really great man :)

Awesome job! This is super cool!

This is so cool! Awesome job 🎉

LETS GOOO, its really sick. I'm looking forward to the game when I get my playdate in half a year (if everything goes well xD) Will you continue on your dungeon game next? or what is next?

This is a really cute game! I think I would personally like to hear a more retro sound style but it's still really great!

I love tamagotchi and I have a couple ideas, One is that you could use your Gems to get clothing for your pet. Another idea is maybe some sort of treasure hunting mini game we’re your pet searches a large garden and if you turn the crank the pet can sniff and search for the treasure or something. One final idea is (I’m not sure if it’s possible for Playdate) to make the mini game you already have multiplayer. Thanks for reading

Can't get enough of your devlogs

I am waiting on mine to ship but the emulator does a fine job at playing it for now! Good work

This is great! But I am a huge digimon buff and when I saw you talk about the digimon battle system I was hoping there would be a more standard formula, maybe later on you can have different foods have different advantages against monsters, or maybe you could make the monsters possible to get!

When I got my playdate last week, it was one of the first things to think of; how cool would it be to have a tamagotchi on the device. I could only encourage you to put more time into this, as I can see many people paying 6-10 bucks for this!

I was so hoping for a per and one step from eden game for the playdate and you made both in 1. I Love it. Maybe one day i will get one

omg this is so cool! Thank you for the walk through. I kind of want to get a Playdate and write things now. Did you write this in C or Lua?

I think you ended pretty well to put all the tamagotchi flavor in the playdate. nice work!

Thank you for teaching me about One Step From Eden. That looks super fun

This is amazing! Loving it! I need to get a Playdate :D

This is awesome!!! Great job!! :D

This is great. The only thing I would expect from a modern game is just more content. But very great for a free game made on a short timeline. Being able to customize the pet a bit with decorations or accessories would be great. Maybe more types of items that so different thing as well to give the game a bit more variety.

really cool and well executed idea!

Cool! i know its gonna be great, hope it has a cool feature with the crank! Edit: Nice! I love the petting.

This is incredible! I didn't know this little console existed but now I want one!

this guys games look top notch,, the pixel art and everything feels so. much like the style of the hand crank

Wow nice work!

thanks for sharing your work in detailed steps! really encourages the rest of us, digital creatives here :)

that looks so cool! now that makes me think to buy the console just to play this. there is one suggestion that popped up in my mind: not sure how feasible this is in the game: Evolution, tamagotchi in essence is a game of player taking care of their baby tamagotchi and then evolve them to older tamagotchi and then marry them off (at least this is what newer tamagotchi heading). IMO, I played a lot of vpets other than tamagotchi and vpet without evolution is boring, because there is no specific goal in mind (yes even with fighting mechanism in it). for example you can do pony, to horse to pegasus? maybe you can use level to evolve just like pokemon? it would be better for the evolution to branch, for example the horse can become pegasus or unicorn small bird can turn into duck, chicken, bat, big bird or phoenix mouse can turn into rabbit, cat, or dog, then dog to bulldog or cerberus, and rabbit to buff bunny caterpillar to fly, mantis, spider, or butterfly

While we also had Tamagotchi Friends that was B&W non-lit back screen it is def not like this! This is awesome! 💜

Wow! You are so inspirational!

Okay, I really really like this. I think you should spend some more time on it and get the graphics/sound/UX/usability really polished up. Could easily be one of the best Playdate games if you did honestly and pairs great with the general usage of the Playdate (checking in regularly). Can always shoot me a dm on discord if you want any help with that, although I'm sure you're more than capable on your own too. Also, not using the accelerometer to crack open the egg is massive wasted potential. It could be so satisfying that way. Please consider it!

Always wondered if Tamagatchi would grow into a huge sim. Keep em coming.

i got it! i love the mini game! congrats making the first virtual pet on playdate! so far i love it! first pet i got was the dog!

Love this! When I finally get my Playdate, this will be one of the first things I play. You give access to the source code for Patreons? I'm a developer and I really want to make some games for it. I know Lua is preferred, but that there is C support. Have you ever tried writing a whole game in C for it? (Is that even possible?) I will definitely Patreon you when my Playdate arries.

Great mini game idea!!

I was too young when these came out but my sisters had them and I thought they were so cute. years later I'm a fan of Pokemon and even more years later, they remake Gold and Silver and include one of these little guys basically. I've wanted Pokemon to bring another one of these guys back with more functionality when away from the main games. this seems like the perfect solution

As someone who also bought a tamagotchi that has been going strong for nearly two weeks now (Thanks to me learning about being able to pause it while I'm at work) I love this concept! I really miss all the old virtual pet sims like Petz and Nintendogs. I think one huge thing missing is the evolution mechanics. A huge draw to tamagotchis was learning about the different paths and taking care of them to see what they would turn into. Without that mechanic I feel like it'd be easy to play the game for an hour and then never pick it up again.

So amazing. Really shows you don't need HD graphics or huge maps to get rich gameplay. Out of curiosity, have you ever played the Gameboy game Survival Kids? I think you'd dig it.

Very cool dude, good job

Great job dude

5:40 it took my eyes at least 5 seconds to adjust to that being a crab and NOT an old man with a mustache.

I absolutely love this! I really want to play your game, but I can't afford to buy a PlayDate right now (hoping I will be able to someday.) I can afford your game though - and I was wondering if it was possible to just play it on the playdate SDK on PC? I haven't been able to get the "virtual console" to work so I could play some games on it and was hoping you or someone in the comments would be able to help me figure it out. :) Thanks.

Just want to say how good the sound design is, specially the make a wish screen, it reminds me of simple sound cues from some Gameboy Games.

Cool! I also remember playing on little Tamagotchi toys as a kid :)

This is so good!!

This looks like so much fun and makes me want to get a Playdate

Great game and vid

Nice graph! Look like good idea for widget games. Or amoled set wallpaper or screensaver. Have one dog that walking around screen and have interactions with touches. Launch fot Android.

Great work man. This should be celebrated.

your doing great job wouldn't surprise if got offers come in . people clearly like it and can see tamagotchi come back to life IF!!!! giving chance. most likely catch on tho will it last probably not but be worth it Ive already got myself digimon tamagotchi

This is some quality work

I can't wait to get my playdate to try this game!

nice. Very chill video. I enjoyed it

Back in the day on Phantasy Star Universe on Xbox you could download a Chao Sonic mini game onto your GBA. It was like tamagotchi in a way but the mini game was the greatest. It was a form of rock, paper, scissors and I've never seen it anywhere else. It would be great to see that remade

Its a pretty great idea! The only thing missing are evolutions which I think are the best part of a Tamagotchi.

Wow! This has a lot going for it!

Now I want one of these

Its really cool

Unofficially if there is a way you could make a little Sora, Riku or Kairi, that we would be rad :D, or Rugrats :) you're making me want to learn how to code and get that device lol

it may be rly hard to code but u couldve improved on or even taken inspiration in the modern versions of the tamagotchi to make it much more interesting. bc some of the features u added are some of the things that modern tamagotchis alr hv. one of the features of the tmgc thats tama fans enjoy is being able to connect w the tamagotchi thru endearing animations like first pov when playing tgt w the tmgc or animations of ur tmgc drawing a picture for u. its quite simple but it lets the user connect w the tama. but i still think u did great! this is a rly great proj and u made ur own take of a vpet, just not a tmgc.

very cool. good job

Tamagotchi evolutions is what my favorite feature was.

this is beautiful

super awesome!

good stuff... keep it up.

Really nice. above and beyond the original

this is unreasonably cool

You make great video keep it up

This is awesome. You should defo include death in the game

The Megaman PETs were pretty fun. I have a Japanese one and several battle chips from Japan and the USA.