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Cranko! #7 May 2026
It made us sweat a little, but it’s finally here: a proper expedition into the untamed borderlands of fun, where the maps are dodgy, the compass has lost the plot, and the treasure probably has a crank sticking out of it.
For this issue, we’ve stuffed the hold with material as volatile as a warehouse full of dynamite. We open our exclusive coverage with the first chapter of a special report on making isometric games for Playdate: how they’re built, who’s already been unhinged enough to try, and who’s currently chiselling tiny diagonal worlds into Panic’s pocket-sized yellow oddity.
And because our fuse is still dry, we’ve got something for the restless tinkerers, bedroom devs, and unstoppable creative gremlins among you: we’re giving away copies of the brand-new Make Games for Playdate with Lua, courtesy of the author himself.
But the real nitroglycerin arrives in a gloriously unstable mix of reviews, hands-ons, and previews: Xorbius, Paco & Lily, Meschera, Crookback, Sam Saru, and plenty more besides. We also take shelter from the cracked, merciless sun at the Dig Dig Dino expedition camp, where we sit down for an exclusive interview -and a few tequilas- with the people behind it and one of the most prolific authors in Catalog.
Then we swing by Gilly’s Island before unearthing the real treasure: a special report on PDGO, a Playdate development environment ready to put Mr. C and Mrs. Lua firmly on the back foot.
Of course, that’s not all. We haven’t even kicked the dust off the surface yet, so don’t let yourself slip into siesta mode: run, ride, or crawl to grab your copy now, because this thing evaporates faster than the liquor in the only saloon in town.
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