A game of relaxing, loading and… puzzling!
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This is totally just a collection of screensavers for Playdate. Yup, nothing weird or special. There’s no game in it.
Also, screensavers would be very useful on a device with a cathode-ray tube monitor. Or perhaps some OLED screen. That’s not what Playdate is. However, you can still chill with the screensavers. And loading.
Oh my, there’s a lot of loading and you won’t be standing idly by.
Game trailer
Game blog archive
This might be the final update? Or how to find bugs that are in your head
Full Walkthrough! (SPOILERS!)
The “stupid asset pipeline” method
Stars of the Screen — Happiness Trailer
Another small update
Small post-launch update
Stars of the Screen — Launch Trailer
Stars of the Screen
4K Wallpapers
10k Playdates
Toasters (ingame sprite)
Toasters (larger)
Nice things people said
Stars of the Screen was nominated in The 2022 Playdate Community Awards in two categories: Artistic Visual Achievement Award in an SDK Game and Best App or Nicknack.
Playdate: The Unofficial Website called Stars of the Screen a #2 game in their 2023 Playdate Games of The Year, describing the game as:
“Truly original in a way I’ve not seen in a long time, Stars of the Screen is a big reason that I made this website, to tell people about games like Stars of the Screen. Please buy it so they make more games.“
Jonathan Dunn of O3C games called Stars of the Screen the ultimate toilet game in their 2023 End Of Year Special Podcast while also saying:
It’s so difficult to explain! (…) You just need to play around. (…) It’s the way the game subverts itself that made me smile the most. There’s always a way to interact with it, even in the menus and transitions. (…) It’s really doing something different, there always seems to be some other secret to wheedle out (…)
It just couldn’t exist anywhere else, other than the Playdate. It’s brilliant.
The only screensaver worth any money
Vogelscript
Drove a bus through the desert for 10 hours. But it turned out the true way home was the screensavers we met along the way.
PizzaFuel
an enigma and WAY more than just a Thing. I love this
Ledbetter
Like spending time with an old friend...that still has a few secrets to share.
Callmesteam
What a quirky, brilliant, and entirely unique experience you can only get on Playdate. I’m really happy I played this.
mikesuszek
a delightful little box of things
splash mob
absolutely worth every cent, the broom closet ending was my favorite!
ecliptik
You got my curiosity (…), and boy I'm glad I gave it a try =D The perfect type of experience for the Playdate, I keep going back and finding new stuff
neobobby
It's the type of thing that makes me say "Im really glad somebody made that. this is cool to have, makes the Playdate cooler by being on it, and makes my life cooler by owning it"
Seven