The Playdate console was announced last year, and it looked very interesting--a small handheld with inbuilt games, a black-and-white screen, and a hand crank that some developers will use as a control mechanism. Over a year later, we've only gotten minor updates, but today the Playdate Twitter account has dropped previews of some of the games external developers are working on, with a promise of more news to come.

About 250 people around the world have their hands on development kits, the Twitter account says, and it wants to show off some of their work. It's worth noting, though, that not all of these games will necessarily ship with the Playdate--they could end up as experiments that don't release, or might just not make it into the system's first season of content.

The first game is Down the Oubliette by Rebecca König, whose previous work includes the world's smallest version of Tetris.