Hi everyone!

The year is coming to an end and that's why I wanted to share some updates on my Playdate games satOlite and Dash Arena:

satOlite Release Date

I've been working on satOlite quite some time now. April 2022 to be precise! It started out as a little side-project to get comfortable with the Playdate SDK, but I had so much fun with it, that I kept working on it here and there since then. On the October Community Direct I announced the game to a broader audience and I set myself the goal to release the game end of this year.

And I'll keep my goal: satOlite will release December 28!

I feel very confident with that date, and I hope you'll have fun with satOlite when it launches🛰️

Oh, and I made this little trailer for the game:

Dash Arena on Catalog

I made this game to dip my toes into publishing a game on itch.io and to do something else for a while during satOlite development. So I'm especially happy to announce that my tiny arcade action game Dash Arena got picked up by Panic for their on-device store Catalog!

Dash Arena will release on Catalog on December 19 at 10AM Pacific!

Just a little heads up: I'll set the price for Dash Arena on Catalog to $2, but I'll keep the price on itch at $1. To be honest, when I released the game, I had no Idea what I was doing 😅 A minimum price of $2 is recommended, because after payment service fees, taxes and the store fee, there is just not much left of that $1. That why I increase the price a bit for Catalog. I hope you understand.

My good friend Robert helped me out by creating amazing art assets for the Catalog store-page. Here is one of them:

Giving money to charity

I'm in the privileged position to make little games like these just for fun. That's why I want to give the revenue, that I made here on itch.io till Christmas, to charity.

I selected 2 local Non-Profit organizations in my hometown Hamburg:

• Hamburger Tierschutzverein - The Hamburg animal protection association 
• GoBanyo - The shower bus for people who have to survive on the streets

The donation will be split 50/50 between those two organizations.

Thank you for supporting me and by doing so supporting these wonderful organizations! ❤️

Have a great December and see you on the launch of satOlite!