Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend
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Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend
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#3Rocking! Mod scene here we come. Where's the "download to a floppy" icon
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#5I'm really impressed with 22. The font is so cool
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#6Very nice. I wish more people just played with code like this.
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#7An interesting thing about "[A lot of] [thing] in [short time]" challenges is that you get a lot of opportunities to learn what processes can be stripped away and different ways to compromise. Great way to break out of a rut or block because you have to learn what's stopping you and what's essential to you.
I quickly skimmed over these results and saw at least one case of "this thing was complicated, so I did this other thing instead" and one "I tried to do that thing, but my failure resulted in this thing". The goal was to make 50 carts so these are both perfectly valid strategies to achieve it.
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#8Nice one! This shows how cool it is to practice on a constrained very immediate playground.
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#9The source code appears to be inside the .tic files, after a short binary header.
To save you some time, if you can't figure out the controls for some demos, try the scroll wheel. You can also press Esc inside demos and get some kind of menu.
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#10I'm really impressed with 22. The font is so cool
That’s the built-in font, you can get it here: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1388526/tic-80-wi...