Locksmith

Tactile incremental lockpicking noir for PlayDate.

You are Silas Crane, known in the back rooms and wet alleys as Locksmith. You do not ask what is inside the box. You open it, take the coin, and disappear.

Turn the PlayDate crank to raise the pick. Feel for the pin. Set it with A. Miss, and the mechanism slips away from you.

Locksmith has grown from a single speedrun prototype into a small noir lockpicking game with story, progression, and a flea-market economy.

Modes

Adventure
Silas Crane's first serious job: a staged gallery theft, a curtain mechanism, a safe dial, and a clock lock.

Endless
Gaslight Bazaar: buy locked lots, crack them, earn coin, craft tools, upgrade your kit, and chase better jobs.

Speedrun
A focused challenge mode for clean, fast lockpicking.

Features

• PlayDate crank-as-pick control
• Pin tumbler lockpicking with randomized targets
• Safe dial and clock-lock puzzles
• Adventure onboarding and noir story beats
• Endless flea-market progression with upgrades, craft parts, and stats
• 1-bit monochrome PlayDate presentation
• Sound effects for ticks, catches, misses, and wins

Current state

Locksmith is playable and actively evolving. The next focus is making Endless jobs feel more distinct through visible rarity, richer flavour text, and stronger risk/reward.

Feedback is very welcome, especially from real PlayDate hardware players.