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Does anyone know of an open-source version of PICO-8? I don't even care about any of the features, as long as there's an active community around the project.
by tooltower 3y ago
Does anyone know of an open-source version of PICO-8? I don't even care about any of the features, as long as there's an active community around the project.
- zx90 3y agoTo all the sibling repliers: PICO-8, TIC-80, Load81 and probably others are somewhat Lua oriented. What is it about Lua that makes it so popular in this area?
- felideon 3y agoIts small footprint goes well with those kinds of platform constraints and it’s a pretty expressive language.
- re 3y agoTIC-80 is a (somewhat similar) fantasy console that is open-source. https://tic80.com/ https://tic80.com/
- buitreVirtual 3y agoAn alternative open source fantasy console is TIC 80: https://tic80.com https://tic80.com
- Sheebeehs 3y ago[dead]
- TedDallas 3y agoTic-80 is what you are looking for.
- katspaugh 3y agoYou should checkout WASM4⁽¹⁾, an Open Source WebAssembly-based fantasy console with 4 colors and a 160x160 screen. One of its advantages over TIC-80 is that you can program games in any language that compiles to WebAssembly. The games are tiny pure Wasm "carts" that can run on any Wasm runtime, from the browser to Nintendo 3DS. [1] https://wasm4.org https://wasm4.org
- 0-_-0 3y agoThere is the Nim-based Nico: https://github.com/ftsf/nico https://github.com/ftsf/nico
- jhbadger 3y agoThat's not really a fantasy console though -- it's just a framework for making games. What makes a "fantasy console" like Pico-8 or Tic-80 is that it is an entire environment that you develop and run your code in, as if it were an emulator of a system, albeit one that never actually existed.
- helpfulContrib 3y agoLOAD81 could probably use some eyeballs: https://github.com/antirez/load81.git https://github.com/antirez/load81.git