
MeowDiver
A downloadable game
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A cat in a home-made submarine has decided to clean up the ocean, one haul at a time.
Crank to dive, tilt to steer, and hover over the trash: the intake pulls it in by itself. Bring the haul back to the jetty before your air runs out, sell it to the recycling co-op for parts, and build a better sub. |
| Every level bought is a point of rank. Enough rank opens the next sea, and a new ring of the workshop with it. |
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Air vents that run dry, sunken chests, currents and stinging jellyfish: every dive is a short route to plan. |
| Down in the Wreck Trench, chain zaps leap from piece to piece and a robo-fish buddy harpoons trash for you. |
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And at the bottom of it all, The Abyss: safes, satellites, a cat idol, and hauls worth millions. |
Controls
| Crank | Turn forwards to rise, backwards to dive |
| Tilt | Steer left and right (hold still at the start to calibrate) |
| A or any d-pad direction | Bubble Bomb, once the workshop has built it |
| Hold B | Call for rescue (the co-op pays half) |
| Ashore | D-pad or crank to move, A to select or buy, B to go back |
| System menu | Switch to the d-pad, recalibrate, reverse the crank |
Changelog
v0.4.3 (latest): Much smoother dives. The core trash physics has been rewritten in C, cutting the time each physics step takes on a real Playdate by more than half. Gameplay is unchanged: the C version gives exactly the same results as before.
v0.4.2: Big frame rate boost on hardware, from 8–17 fps up to 25–30 fps during dives. Physics now runs at 30 Hz, and the HUD and effects are much cheaper to draw.
v0.4.1: Smaller performance fixes: no stutter from memory clean-up during dives, faster rock collision checks.
v0.4: First public release.
| Updated | 15 hours ago |
| Published | 3 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Author | Xiuqi Zhang |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Tags | Incremental, Pixel Art, Playdate, underwater |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds |
Download
Install instructions
How to install
On Playdate: download the zip, then upload it at play.date/account/sideload and it will appear in your Playdate's Games list.
No Playdate? Play on PC: install the Playdate SDK from play.date/dev, unzip the download, and drag Meowdiver.pdx onto the Playdate Simulator window. In the simulator it is easiest to play with the d-pad: pick it under controls in the system menu.


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The zip file is incorrectly formatted. You need to put all the files in the zip file, in a subfolder named Meowdiver.pdx
Such as : Meowdiver.pdx.zip / Meowdiver.pdx / All the files
In contrary to the current : Meowdiver.pdx.zip / All the files
Thanks for pointing that out! I’ve re-uploaded the zip. It now contains a Meowdiver.pdx folder with all the files inside, so sideloading should work.