Bad Pixels Demo in Steam Next Fest

February 23, 2026

Come and play the demo of the game we have been working on! Available on Windows, Mac and Steamdeck / Linux.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/952100/Bad_Pixels/

If you find some bugs, please consider reporting them on our discord

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/bad-pixels-demo-in-steam-next-fest/)

Pirate Pop & Questy Chess 50% off on Itch Black Friday sale!

November 29, 2025

Two of our games, Pirate Pop & Questy Chess, are both a massive 50% off for Black Friday on the itch sale.

Pirate Pop is a solid authentic 8bit game where bubble popping, meets Gravity for frantic, score attack action. Featuring score chasing and some very cool dotmatrix screen effects, this title is sure to get you a retro mood, attacking your senses from the 90s!

Questy Chess is a unique chess-RPG-puzzle hybrid set inside a corrupted 90s computer. With it’s blend of puzzles, minimal graphics and moody drone soundtrack, you’ll see the time fly away with it’s completionist level rating challenges.

So if you have been curious, now is the time! Available for Windows, Mac OSX & Linux.

https://dadako.itch.io/

(Link to this article: https://dadako.com/pirate-pop-questy-chess-50-off-on-itch-black-friday-sale/)

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 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/)

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/)