Introducing Tools

October 8, 2024

For our own game development we have various in-house tools. We’ve decided to let these loose among on the game dev community! Currently just two tools are released at time of writing, however we have several others in the pipeline that will be released shortly.

Currently available are “Pixel Art Fonts” and “Retro Palette Picker” (currently free!).

Pixel Art Fonts was created as a solution to an old issue of pixel fonts becoming blurry in Unity. The tool has stood the test of time and is one of Unity’s most popular font assets.

Retro Palette Picker was also created to solve an issue, of not having a colour one needs to hand! Having the palettes as a dockable window inside the Unity Editor makes it easy to grab a colour value quickly.

Both of these are for Unity, and to make obtaining these as accessible as possible, our tools are be available on Itch.io, Unity Asset Store, Patreon and Gumroad.

If you are a game developer, with an eye towards the retro game aesthetic, you may enjoy our offerings!

https://dadako.com/tools

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/introducing-tools/)

Facemakr, Chop Town & Tilterpillar are now Ad free!

May 2, 2024

After experimenting with Ads in our games, we concluded integrating Ads into games is not the direction we want to head in.

So, we removed Ads. Experiment failed successfully!

https://dadako.com/tilterpillar

https://dadako.com/chop-town

https://dadako.com/facemakr

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/facemakr-chop-town-tilterpillar-are-now-ad-free/)

Tilterpillar update 2.3

October 3, 2023

Following on from the re-release of Tilterpillar, we have updated the game again with some extra languages!

Languages now supported are: Chinese S/T, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German.
For this release, we have also localised the game’s name and logo. So for example if you are playing from Italy, the game is called “Bruchi”! Let’s have a look at some of those logos in more detail:

As usual, the game is free to play from the Apple Appstore

Here’s those game names in full:

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/tilterpillar-update-2-3/)

Introducing Questy Chess for Playdate

June 9, 2021

Panic Inc today announced the lineup for its new Playdate handheld console. We at Dadako are proud to reveal that we made a title for season one, called Questy Chess.

This is very exciting for the Dadako team, and we are looking forward to release. For more details on when that will be, we can recommend going to the play.date website and hooking up to their announcement channels.

DEEP IN AN EVER ADVANCING COMPUTER, FORGOTTEN AND UNCHANGED, REMAINS CHESS PROGRAM V1.

It’s been a long journey for Dadako making Questy Chess.
Questy Chess is a serious game of chess, with a quest. We’ve kept the game under wraps for over a year now and theres a little more waiting to go, a small tease into the story is here: questychess.com

Overall the theme is one of duality, mystery and old computers.

Things to expect:

• Chess
• Quests

For press enquires, please visit our contact page.

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/introducing-questy-chess-for-playdate/)

Monstermakr

October 1, 2018

Monstermakr was released just after the hit Facemakr app in 2010, using the same vector engine. We spend a great deal of effort on the PR for this, only to really find out that a halloween app only really gains any kind of popularity once a year…

Heres what we had to say at the time:

Make Monsters out of your friends! Put a monstrous face on your classmates, colleagues and friends this Halloween, just take a photo and get monstering!

Features:

• position, scale and rotate parts.
• Share on Facebook & Twitter
• Gruesome selection of Monster parts.
• Spine chilling audio effects.
• hundreds of parts
• custom vector engine
• scale, rotate with no distortion
• download on 3G
• translated into 9 languages
• Retina display compatible

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/monstermakr/)