Introducing Playdate, a new handheld gaming system from Panic.
It fits in your pocket. It's got a black and white screen. It includes a season of brand-new games from amazing creators. Oh and… there's a crank????
Yes. A thread…
🌌 Nova is here! Our brand new code editor. Packed with features. Built for modern workflows. Lightning fast. Stylish. With a robust extensions architecture.
And, best of all, it's an extremely Mac-app Mac app.
We hope it makes your work wonderful.
🔔 Surprise! New Goose merch! We liked this fan pin from Shattered Earth so much that now it's official — I mean, come on, the Goose is carrying an actual bell, as they do. Stuff your dang stockings for $14. Get it at while supplies last.
🔔 What a wild week. Thank you all so much for playing and appreciating our goose, seriously. Not played it yet? It's 25% off until the end of this week…
💼 Some of you may wonder how REAL video game business gets done. Here's an exclusive look at our advanced pitching process for securing the rights to Untitled Goose Game
Untitled Goose Game is in
@AmongUsGame
!! 🚀
Check out their in-game store now to get the Indie Cosmicube and show off our new bean look.
So cool to be part of this with a bunch of other fellow indies. Can't wait to see you represent us as the Impostor. 😈
🏵 If you missed it, this week we were really surprised to see our pal Transmit already up and running on a Mac using Apple silicon! Incredible work on Rosetta, Apple!
(And when our port is done, this will be Transmit Mac's fourth processor architecture! 68k > PPC > Intel > Arm)
🎂 Panic is 25 years old today.
Well, if you go by the date Steve and I first registered a business called "Panic LLC". A few years we re-registered as "Panic Inc", and a couple years after that hired actual employees, so this is Birthday 1.0, really, but a birthday nonetheless.
✨ PANIC GAME NEWS ✨ Our next video game project is… "Untitled Goose Game" by
@house_house_
! It is a lovely day in the village and you are a horrible goose. Coming in 2019 to Mac, PC, and — just announced — the Nintendo Switch!!! New site and trailer:
🎇 Transmit 5.7 is ALSO now Apple silicon native on Mac, which is kind of a beautiful thing: this means that our little truck has run natively on every single Mac architecture in history, from 68k, to PPC, to Intel, now to M1. It just keeps on going!
🎨 A follow-up: here's the Transmit icon history, now with credits! Thanks to
@iconfactory
for creating our wonderful truck,
@kenichi
for keeping it fresh.
⌨️ Sure, why not? Here's another quick peek at our next editor. You might spot a terminal… editor/sidebar issues… the new tab popover… it's really coming together!
(And yes, we're still using our "Outrun" theme inspired by
@Robb0wen
!)
🥴 That was close! The latest Prompt update was rejected because our icon, despite being the same for 9 years, was "identical to the icons of other apps" (?) and "spam". Cooler heads prevailed. It's out!
(New devs take comfort: after 20 years, even Panic gets Reviewer Roulette®)
🔥 Five years ago, we published Firewatch. It changed a lot of things for us. We were lucky to be a part of it.
To celebrate, we've finally transcribed the built-in Firewatch Audio Tour — packed with development insight — into an 175-page PDF book. Enjoy.
👾 Some of you guessed this, but yes, there's a Playdate extension for Nova that makes development pretty snappy. Hit that "Run" button, and your game loads up in the Playdate Simulator. It's weird being a company that makes a text editor and a handheld gaming system but, SYNERGY
🐢 Hey, remember a few months ago when we asked you to test your download speeds to our server? Thanks — you helped us solve The Mystery of the Slow Downloads. Here's the story.
💬 Nova will be $99, or $79 if you own Coda. When you buy it, you own it. Plus, your purchase includes one year of new features and fixes, released the moment they're ready. After that, you can get another year of updates at any point — even much later — for $49/year. That's it!
🎉 Extremely amazed and delighted to hear that Nova — our new Mac editor — is an Apple Design Awards 2021 Finalist! The team has put so much hard work and care into Nova and it means the world to us to see that work being recognized. Thank you Apple, and congrats to all nominees!
🌅 It's a new day — Nova 3 is OUT NOW, and our powerful code editor is 100% native on Apple silicon Macs!
It's another plus of being a native editor: Nova can quickly take advantage of all the things Apple makes to make Macs even better, like the M1 chip.
🫘 What!! A new Panic-published game just premiered at gamescom
#OpeningNightLive
!!
Thank Goodness You're Here!, by
@coalsupper
, is an absurd comedy slapformer (?) in a bizarre Northern English town.
Launching 2024 on PC, Switch, and PS5! Wishlist ahoy:
🏕 Firewatch for the Nintendo Switch is arriving on December 17th! We're crazy excited for this version — it feels right at home, and quite special. Coming to the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Japan Nintendo eShops. Same price. See you in a couple weeks!
🧞♂️ So! Transmit 5 in the Mac App Store, coming later this year. Why?
• Coming improvements to sandboxing finally let us offer _all_ Transmit 5 features in the App Store version.
• The new, redesigned Mac App Store is a store we’d like to be in.
But there's a little twist!
🌌 For those keeping track, Nova beta 11 is heading out the door to the private beta group. (It's full, but we're nearing the end, we swear!)
Here's a secret peek at something new: flexible, customizable sidebar layouts. Want to see files, symbols, and Git at once? No problem!
💫 NOVA IS 50% OFF! 💫 For a limited time — until April 1st, 2022 — our Mac-native code editor, Nova, is just $49. Including a year of updates. This is HUGE.
Buy Now:
Our global marketing division has prepared this powerful sales presentation for you 🔊:
🎙 It is the 2020's. And there is time for… a Panic Podcast.
Our pilot run of six shows will cover everything Panic. (Which is a lot.)
S1E1: Untitled Goose Game. How it came to be. How we came to be involved. Featuring our friends at House House. Enjoy!
🎁 On Friday, Steve and I masked up, hopped in my Toyota Town Ace, and drove out to each employee's house to deliver some celebratory Nova cookies.
The cookies were delicious, sure, but the best part, by far… was just seeing everyone again.
💚 Quick update. Everyone at Panic is now working from home, and that's taking some getting used to. But we're working hard to keep our momentum. Our team is working right now on Nova Beta 9, a new Prompt, bug fixes to Coda, and more. But most importantly: we hope you're doing ok
❇️ A short story about the color green. We wanted a very specific, very vibrant green color at the top of , but when we specified this green as a RGB or hex color in our css, it produced a… muted green. We could not get the green to copy across correctly!
You haven't tasted true freedom until you've published a software update and it just, like, goes straight to your customers, instantly, without being reviewed and rejected by someone else first
⚽ Big news… another Panic-published game!! We're extremely excited to announce that we'll be bringing you despelote (
@despelotegame
), a slice-of-life adventure about childhood, community, and the magic of soccer, from
@solimporta
and team.
Wishlist it:
🧞♂️ Our idea: Transmit 5 on the Mac App Store will be a subscription, while Transmit 5 direct from us will remain a one-time purchase. The choice is yours! Think Transmit 5 is too expensive or need it briefly? Subscribe. Hate subscriptions and prefer to own apps? Buy from us.
🌈 Along with WebGL, p3 colors are now a big part of the Panic website secret weapon pile. Shh, don’t tell anyone, but you should see this page on an iMac Pro screen!
I appreciate that the unbelievably vibrant colours on the
@playdate
site are totally part of why
@panic
were tweeting about their adventures in getting wide gamut CSS colours the other month 🥳🌼🔆
🌲🎂 Two years ago today we released Firewatch, by far one of our most fulfilling projects. So many thanks to
@camposanto
for making such an incredible thing, every person who played it, and every one of you who supported our Mac or iOS software for allowing us to fund it.
Big Fun. Big Memories. Big News.
Introducing Big Walk, an ambitious new game from House House (Untitled Goose Game), published by Panic. Hang out and get lost with close friends in a cooperative adventure about teamwork and talking.
👈 Wishlist it Now!
📸 Firewatch! On May 20th, or while supplies last, our FOTODOME™ photo printing service is shutting down. If you have PC/Mac Firewatch, it's your last chance — wander the wilderness, take some nice photos, upload 'em, and get 'em for real in a fun envelope. Still just $15.
🌏 Notice something new on the Nova buy page? As of today, 1% of all Panic direct sales will go towards removing CO₂ from the atmosphere. This is all thanks to our pals at
@stripe
— it was just a few clicks for us to enable and the portfolio is very cool.
💜 Today marks Dave Hayden's 20-year Panic anniversary. We hired him to work on a multi-user chat world we never shipped, but he went on to make Unison, the terminal we used in Coda/Prompt, and more. Of course, most recently, he created Playdate. Thank you for everything, Dave.
🎂 Happy 50th (!) birthday to the world's first official notion of a "File Transfer Protocol", born April 16th, 1971. Without you, old friend, it's pretty safe to say Panic would not exist!
Nova is amazing because the small team that made it is amazing. Getting to spend time with people I genuinely love, who genuinely love making things, and who are truly up for anything, feels so special, once-in-a-lifetime, irreplaceable. Panic, great job. Thank you forever. 💜, C
🏴 Yes! Transmit 5.2 now supports DARK MODE for macOS Mojave. And, I'll be honest, it looks pretty danged nice. It's a free update now available for direct customers — just auto-update and enjoy!
🌌 In the meantime, our work on Nova continues at a rapid clip. We're up to Beta 15 — a long but fructuous road! — and we are in the home stretch of registration, documentation, web design, and polish.
The next time you hear from us on Nova, it should be with a release date!
🌌‼️ It's one of the biggest, greatest updates that we've ever done for our Mac code editor Nova. It totally overhauls how we handle languages. It adds a brand new comparison/diff view. And, just for fun, it has some great new dock icons.
Nova 10 is here.
I wouldn't be celebrating this day if it wasn't for you.
You cheered us on. Bought our software (or games (or handheld game systems)). Visited us at Macworld Expo. Reported bugs and ideas. Told your friends about us.
You are why we are still here. Thank you, from all of us.
😅 A slight existential weirdness today after we packed everything up but don’t worry, we’re just getting all new standing desks and fresh chairs. So anyway here’s a rare (hopefully) peek at an empty Panic office.
😲 You get to decide which one of us is fab and which one of us is function, just keep it to yourself. (Seriously though, thank you, Apple! This is really cool for us, and Panic.)
💜 What a great day. We're so glad you're enjoying Nova!
Thanks to you, we have a really great sense of what features to add next, we fixed a few bugs, and we found your enthusiasm for this product so energizing. Hooray for Mac apps!
One quick thought before we get some rest.
😅 Looks like, when apps are launched, Gatekeeper is unable to check their validity over the internet, due to overwhelmed Apple servers. So, uh, let’s all hang in there! You got this, Apple devops!
☘️ So now, we're using that magic CSS, and then falling back to the ol' tiling image if your browser doesn't support it. And, uh, that's the whole story of our intense green. Thank u
Hello! We have a lot to share about the video games we are publishing.
Please joins us for our Panic Games showcase on August 29th at 10AM PT.
🆕 Brand new game announcements!
😀 A fun NOUR update + a closer look at Despelote
🕒 Around 20 minutes
⌨️🤫 We've been hard at work on the next major version of Prompt, our SSH terminal app… and we'd love your help to test it and make sure it's great. Interested? Sign up!
🍜🚨🍩 Our next published game is out!!
Nour: Play With Your Food is fresh and ready to serve on PS4, PS5, and PC/Mac via Steam & Epic Games Store. It's a one-of-a-kind audiovisual delight, with 20+ interactive food scenes, from
@_Teejay5
and co!
Get it:
🍃 Coda 2.7 is here!!! It adds dark mode with a refreshed appearance! And it now includes the Transmit 5 transfer engine, which means Amazon S3 improvements, a new Get Info window, and lots more. Auto-update and enjoy!
Release notes:
🌴 If you're currently a Nova user getting a year's worth of updates, check your inbox. We've just extended your updates by one free month! There's nothing for you to do, just enjoy. (Also, a big update is coming soon!)
Full email:
✨ Yes. Nova 6 is here. It adds Project Groups, a beautiful new way to organize your work. It fixes over 160 issues. It's a better Mac code editor than ever — and a free upgrade.
Full Notes:
Download for Free (we reset the trial!):
🌌 Our Nova private beta continues! We added some more random testers to the pool, and Beta 9 went out last week. Now we're focused on Beta 10, which will land some of our last big things — better auto-updating, a redesigned project browser, etc. Here's a peek at Beta 10's icon…