I love this, the different exercises actually make me feel different, thank you! Looking forward to planting my first tree! 🌳
I found the way that the screens spatially related to each other to be a bit confusing sometimes, jumping left and right and up and down out of nowhere felt a bit jarring as I transitioned from screen to screen.
After a million and a half years I finally got my Playdate and had to give this a try. Very pleasant! I was very excited to see all the future concepts...until I saw that there have been no updates in a year...
So, I'll continue to enjoy the exercises and hopefully plant some trees, but...is the dream dead? Or just stalled?
Biotopico is so cool!! I love how you've gamified breath exercises - the music and all the lil sounds are also fab. I look forward to any future updates!
If you unzip the "Biotopico-v1.2.0.pdx.zip" file, you'll have a .PDX file, which you can double-click to open in Playdate Simulator ! I can add some additional instructions on the main description to make this clearer.
What a neat idea and really well thought out. The breath animations are very intuitive. This shows off the potential of the playdate for more than games.
Small suggestion: You might want to make sure the music either is long enough for the slower exercises or that it loops cleanly.
This is perfect for when I need a mental reset, and I'll definitely be following this for updates.
Thank you! Yes... working carefully on those audio loops... Trying to keep the total game size down is tricky, and looping soft/pad/gentle music cleanly can sometimes be awkward. We'll go back and recheck all the loops and clean them up.
The itch HTML input stuff is a little bit buggy actually, some specific attributes (like border-radius, randomly?) aren't respected. But overall it was pretty simple, I just built it in a text editor and used inline styling on the header and paragraph tags etc. :)
![Bíotópico [Playdate]](https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzg5OTUyMzQucG5n/original/NMhxCx.png)
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This is coool as hell. I just started with it and I love it.
The fact that it is free is even better yet.
Thank you!
I love this, the different exercises actually make me feel different, thank you! Looking forward to planting my first tree! 🌳
I found the way that the screens spatially related to each other to be a bit confusing sometimes, jumping left and right and up and down out of nowhere felt a bit jarring as I transitioned from screen to screen.
After a million and a half years I finally got my Playdate and had to give this a try. Very pleasant! I was very excited to see all the future concepts...until I saw that there have been no updates in a year...
So, I'll continue to enjoy the exercises and hopefully plant some trees, but...is the dream dead? Or just stalled?
Biotopico is so cool!! I love how you've gamified breath exercises - the music and all the lil sounds are also fab.
I look forward to any future updates!
Thank you John !
I installed the Playdate SDK and downloaded the game folder but can't figure out how to play the game. Can you provide more detailed instructions?
If you unzip the "Biotopico-v1.2.0.pdx.zip" file, you'll have a .PDX file, which you can double-click to open in Playdate Simulator ! I can add some additional instructions on the main description to make this clearer.
What a neat idea and really well thought out. The breath animations are very intuitive. This shows off the potential of the playdate for more than games.
Small suggestion: You might want to make sure the music either is long enough for the slower exercises or that it loops cleanly.
This is perfect for when I need a mental reset, and I'll definitely be following this for updates.
Thank you! Yes... working carefully on those audio loops... Trying to keep the total game size down is tricky, and looping soft/pad/gentle music cleanly can sometimes be awkward. We'll go back and recheck all the loops and clean them up.
This is really rad! Unlike anything else I've played before and will absolutely continue using the game. Looking forward to those future updates.
Thank you!!
Looks really great! Good work, going to download this and give it a try!
I just want to say. This has some excellent presentation. This page looks great!
thank you !!
Agreed! I didn't know you could do custom CSS on a itch page. The game footage makes me wish I had a playdate.
The itch HTML input stuff is a little bit buggy actually, some specific attributes (like border-radius, randomly?) aren't respected. But overall it was pretty simple, I just built it in a text editor and used inline styling on the header and paragraph tags etc. :)
That's really helpful, thanks!