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Re: PICO-8

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post #14

They also have a pretty interesting Voxel fantasy console: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php . This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums. I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.

The lexaloffle forums? I don't see much bitterness there?

Read this - http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2074

Re: PICO-8

#22
post #14

They also have a pretty interesting Voxel fantasy console: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php . This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums. I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.

I bought Voxatron in the humble voxatron debut bundle and i loved it just for what it was at that stage, all the updates past then were just bonuses to me.

I got excited about Pico-8 when I was reading, then I noticed its by the voxatron dev, THEN I notice it says if you already bought voxatron Pico-8 is free?!

I was hyped, now I'm hyped and happy. I was thinking about buying Pico-8, I wonder if this is a good business decision or not... I'll probably be raving on about it for a while now so the word of mouth might be worth $15.

Kinda makes me think 0x10c, developing games within a game. Someone should build hardware for this to run on :p

Re: PICO-8

#23
Very cute and cool little environment .. was pleasantly surprised to see that it came with my Vexatron purchase (amazing in its own right) .. a truly delightful little environment, which I'm going to enjoy, very much, teaching my 8-year old to play with .. just like the good ol' days of computing, before IDE's came along .. ;)

EDIT: reminds me a little bit of antirez' LOAD81 environment which is also, a bit of a retro programming experience:

http://github.com/antirez/load81

Re: PICO-8

#25

I put together a tutorial on writing a simple game in PICO-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaLuMhwcc8 its really a fun platform to play with

Excellent! Really nice demo .. me and the kids are sitting down to watch it together later today and see what we come up with after watching your tutorial. Thanks for that!

Re: PICO-8

#26
post #9

Only thing about PICO-8 that makes no sense: the 32k limit. Otherwise, an awesome set of limitations.

Who knows, perhaps some day there will be dirt cheap PICO-8 hardware?

PICO-8 has been intentionally designed to be able to run on PI level hardware. A few people have made or are working on consoles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRHtbOdxbc

https://twitter.com/gustav_olsson/status/627833548700053504

Re: PICO-8

#28
post #14

They also have a pretty interesting Voxel fantasy console: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php . This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums. I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.

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Re: PICO-8

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post #14

They also have a pretty interesting Voxel fantasy console: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php . This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums. I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.

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