IORAMA Shares iOS Footage of A Fool's Errand: Watch
The Playdate climbing game from the studio behind Looom swaps the crank for a thumb.
IORAMA, the studio of Finn Ericson and Eran Hilleli, posted a video on Sept. 25 showing A Fool's Errand running on an iPhone. The game came out on Playdate in November 2025, and the studio has not announced a release date or price for an iOS version. Watch the clip below.
IORAMA's iPhone footage of A Fool's Errand, with sound. Video: IORAMA
On Playdate, A Fool's Errand is a 1-bit climbing game. According to its Playdate catalog page, the player cranks young Roland up the "infinitely-spiralling" Dark Tower while dodging traps and creatures, in what IORAMA calls "a fabled 1D ascent." Panic's staff note on the listing calls it a "precision-cranker" that gets easier with practice.
The iPhone footage keeps the black-and-white art and the spiraling tower but drops the crank: the player in the clip moves Roland with a thumb on the touchscreen.
IORAMA's earlier work includes the animation app Looom, which the studio lists as a 2020 Apple Design Award winner, the Playdate game Grand Tour Legends and the iPad app Graintouch. The studio says it draws on "musical instruments and early video games."
For more reading, see When the crank turns, Ancient Loops collides its cards, Return of the Obra Dinn update details the challenges of 1-bit rendering and A Fool's Errand on Playdate.
A Fool's Errand on Playdate, top row, and on iPhone, bottom row. Images: IORAMA, Panic
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