I’ve been pleased with the audio from Granular, there’s a couple of demo tracks on Bandcamp: orllewin.bandcamp.com/album/playdate-granular-demos, but the ui is too cramped. I’d been using the tiny font-rains-1x-table-7-7 typeface that comes with the Playdate SDK for all my UIs but it’s simply too small. I couldn’t find any other fonts for Playdate that look suitable for an app rather than a game. It’s a cute games console and all the other choices are fun arcade style fonts. So I’ve started making my own font using Pixen (which is fantastic: pixenapp.com/) that has the look and feel I can use for these little music projects. It’s been heavily influenced by Pixel Arial 11, a bitmap font from 2005 but when treated with the dithering I apply in Playdate it looks like it has increased resolution.

This together with reworking the interface should make Granular easier to work with, especially for older eyes! I’m well over half way through the rewrite and it should be available in a week or two.