Crankoids – A Playdate Asteroid Shooter with a Twist!

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Crankoids – A Playdate Asteroid Shooter with a Twist! :rocket:

Blast off into an intergalactic adventure with Crankoids, a retro-inspired asteroid shooter designed for the Playdate console! Armed with your crank and reflexes, navigate through asteroid fields, battle powerful bosses, and collect exciting power-ups to enhance your firepower.

Download now and start cranking your way through space!

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I played your game today it was a lot of fun. Few things I may suggest changing if I may.

Top left icons for your life isn't centered with the text vertically would look nicer if it was (could be my OCD :joy:)

No sound when you lose a health and respawn confused me first time it happened and my player moved. So having like a crash sound would be nice.

And the power ups should have icons rather than text. The reason for this is I thought the 2x 3x etc were power ups it wasn't until my 2nd playthrough I realized they were just multipliers and not something you need to collect. I kept wondering why they wouldn't increase my score when flying over them.

Other than that, its a fun little game to play, and I liked the idea of boss fight, thanks for sharing :smiling_face:.

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Thank you so much for your comment and advice. Will try and improve it🙏🏻

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Hey Crankoids players!

First off, a huge thank you to everyone who has shared their thoughts and feedback on the game. Your comments and suggestions have been incredibly helpful in making Crankoids even better!

In this update (v1.1), we’ve made a couple of key improvements based on your input:

  • Enhanced Bonus Item Visibility – It’s now much easier to spot bonus items during gameplay.
  • New Explosion Animation – Your spaceship now has an animated explosion when hit, adding a more dynamic feel to the action.

We appreciate your support and look forward to hearing more of your feedback. Keep cranking and enjoy the game! :rocket:

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Hi Spellthorn,

Thanks again for your comment and input, please try the updated version. :slight_smile:

Enjoy

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I'm glad you took my thoughts into consideration, excited to play it, but I downloaded it and it has an issue with your build number

Screenshot 2025-03-26 081429

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Oops, I will change it next time, so can you play the game now?

Of course I will take your comment and input, especially it really make the game better!

If you have any other thought, please feel free :slight_smile:

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It wouldn't let me side load it gave that error

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I modified the file. Would you mind to try again? :pray:t2:

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So I downloaded the new one it worked but it doesn't update when I try to side load it, I had to uninstall the original one to install the new one, not sure what caused that

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Hi Spellthorn,

I just tried again with the original updated one, I don't have any issue. And the build number is indeed a number 1.1.1

I have added a comment to the post just in case anyone experience any issue, please uninstall the old one.

Thanks again!

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Remember that buildnumber needs to be a monotonically incrementing whole number and is used for determining if an app needs to update.
Version is a string that can be whatever you like that is visible to users. eg. 1.1.1

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thank you very much!!! I didn't aware and overlook this.

Will start to use whole number for build. :slight_smile: