A downloadable Playdate game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Astro Nut is a short action adventure game for the Playdate console by Panic! You land on a desolate planet for unknown reasons, only to find an offbeat group of sentient southern rovers. 

Your quest seems simple, but rest assured that all is not as it seems!

Playable in browser at play.date/pulp, or on real Playdate hardware.  Astro Nut is developed in Pulp by Mara Folse, with music by Kyle Finlay.

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Release date Apr 19, 2022
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Authorseacreek
GenreAdventure
Made withPlaydate
Tags1-bit, Action-Adventure, Comedy, Playdate, Retro
Code licenseUnlicense
Asset licenseCreative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilityColor-blind friendly, High-contrast

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Astro-Nut_20220512213720.zip 109 kB
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I just started getting into Pulp games and this was cute and challenging. Thanks for this little game!

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Thank you for playing, I'm glad you had a nice time! A lot of people have downloaded, so it's nice to read a couple comments made years later.

You might enjoy my current stuff too, I moved to 3D browser games in another engine branched from Bitsy (like Pulp is).

My friend and I are both in love with the bop in the sherrifs office!


Also this was adorable, and I wish there were more. I'd love to get the oxygen tank, suddenly be able to explore more with it, and then for the sherrif to give me more things to do, maybe uncovering more about the base and why it's being shut down?

Also, did my little guy have a ray gun? There weren't any enemies to fight, and so I didn't use it? Was there a way to get extra health inside the coal mine to avoid starting over if I died? Maybe I missed something. 


Other than wishing it was longer cause it was super fun, maybe give tbe astronaut a visible helmet? The sherrif mentioned me being the only carbon based life form on the planet. Having a suit and helmet I could customize based on completing different bounty hunter type errands the sherrif sends you in would be fun. 

Thanks for the detailed review! Yeah this was Kyle's first soundtrack on a Bitsy game, and he did more for others after. He's a great composer!

I was planning for this game to have 4 dungeons and a whole plot about the Sheriff being insane, and people just playing along that she was a sheriff. There would be a final boss fight with the sheriff, and a really foreboding and fantastic track was left unused for it. Still in the files!

You did have a little laser sword yeah, I just gave up on the enemy feature eventually and left it in for fun. I believe your health might have refilled when you got key cards but maybe not lol. One of the main criticisms was the timing being too hard and not much fun, which I agree with.

And yeah, you were originally going to have an inventory and upgrade path. I made this game as a launch title for the Playdate, and so had a deadline. I lost steam eventually, but knew I only had one opportunity to make a launch game lol, so I slapped together an ending.

I recommend trying out some of my other games, they have a similar cute character based exploration, and are mostly 3D now!