Show HN: Akedo – Retro gaming and coding platform
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#3This reminds me of the phantasy consoles scene:
* https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php (paid, $15)
* https://tic80.com/ (Lua, JS, Ruby, Wren, ...., open source, free)
* https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/ (Lua, C#, open source, free)
I have good memories of playing around with Tic80, now hat v1.0 is out, perhaps I try it again.
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#4What language does it use? I can't match it with anything I know, is it something custom?
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#5How'd you come up with the name? Does it stand for something?
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#6Great stuff! Consider having a game jam on itch.io to attract some users
I can't help but plug my own 3D version: https://turtlespaces.org
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#7What language does it use? I can't match it with anything I know, is it something custom?
According to the help page:
> Akedo uses a beginner friendly language that is similar to many professional languages but is aimed at producing readable and understandable code.
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#8In this highly realistic tennis game...
Its always a plus, in my book at least, when the dev has a solid sense of humor...thanks for the work and I hope it helps a youngster get into game programming.
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#9What language does it use? I can't match it with anything I know, is it something custom?
It's a language I designed myself heavily influenced by Python, Lua, and BASIC. I wanted something that was as simple as possible to get started with and could grow with the user.
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#10This looks like a really neat educational platform! A few questions I couldn't find answers to (although didn't do a ton of digging beyond exploring each page/section):
1. Is the language for this open source? If not, is that planned?
2. Is the language compiled or interpreted, and what targets? Is the execution environment a VM that runs in the browser similar to Scratch?
3. Is this a charity or for-profit? If the former, how will it be sustainable (i.e. donations, premium memberships, etc.)? If the latter, what are the plans for monetization?