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| TIC-80 | awesome-PICO-8 | |
|---|---|---|
| 134 | 6 | |
| 4,732 | 2,514 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 9.2 | 3.9 | |
| 5 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | ||
| MIT License | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
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TIC-80
- Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
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Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages.
- Not only Unity...
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PicoCalc
I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0].
- Publishing my first game using pico-8
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, squirrel, wren, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added.
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Procedural Tree Generator - Free Pixel Art Tool
Included native builds for windows, mac, linux, html, and also TIC-80's .PNG, .TIC and .LUA formats. Try out the web version here - https://tic80.com/play?cart=3424 See the TIC-80 wiki for instructions on exporting https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki
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Procedural Tree Generator
https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/ - TIC-80 website (for running .lua .png or .tic files) as well as TIC-80 documentation.
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Hey, I need advice!😶
Try https://tic80.com/ instead of PICO-8, it's a free open-source alternative and still fun.
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Anybody working on games here?
Tho personally I've come to prefer making my games in https://love2d.org and https://tic80.com
awesome-PICO-8
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The Ultimate Link Guide for PICO-8
That said; why not just open PRs to Awesome PICO-8?
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Pico-1K Jam: Make Something Cool in Pico-8 in 1024 Characters
There are alternatives these days:
https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8#clones
I would just add that $14.99 is still a very fair price and it enables the developer (lexaloffle) to work on other cool stuff like voxatron, picotron, etc.
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Where to start
- Awesome Pico-8 resources list: https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8
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Help for starting 🙂
Awesome Pico-8 is basically the most complete online collection of stuff you can find.
What are some alternatives?
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
awesome-playdate - A list of awesome resources for Playdate (https://play.date) game development and the Playdate SDK (https://play.date/dev/)
pyxel - A retro game engine for Python
awesome-godot - A curated list of free/libre plugins, scripts and add-ons for Godot
PixelVision8 - Pixel Vision 8's core philosophy is to teach retro game development with streamlined workflows. PV8 is also a platform that standardizes 8-bit fantasy console limitations built on top of the open-source C# game engine based on MonoGame.
awesome-gbdev - A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
LIKO-12 - LIKO-12 is an open source fantasy computer made using LÖVE.
magictools - :video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
ruffle - A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
gamedev_libraries - A collection of open source c/c++ libraries for gamedev
awesome-embedded-rust - Curated list of resources for Embedded and Low-level development in the Rust programming language
awesome-haxe-gamedev - Resources for game development on haxe