With Zipper for Playdate, game designer, developer, and philosopher Bennett Foddy wanted to share his love of the particular style of isometric tactics games he grew up playing on the ZX Spectrum–games that may be unfamiliar to people from the United States. Drawing on the influences of Akira Kurosawa, the anime and manga series “Bleach”, and the British game “Last Ninja 2,” Zipper is a beautifully-crafted homage to classic samurai films and 8-bit black and white games.

Show Notes

• Bennett Foddy on Twitter


• Bennett Foddy’s website


• ZX Spectrum


• Bleach official website


• Last Ninja 2 on Moby Games


• List of works by Akira Kurosawa


• Dan Messing on Twitter


• Playdate Software Development Kit


• Synth documentation in the Playdate SDK


• Japanese sho


• Playdate Podcast Episode 4: Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure


• Playdate Podcast Episode 1: The Story of Playdate


• Zipper game page on the Playdate website


• Episode Transcript