fantasy
A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers. (by paladin-t)
TIC-80
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. (by nesbox)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fantasy
Posts with mentions or reviews of fantasy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
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Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
There are plenty of alternatives you could find on [1] in the context of fantasy console, almost all of them, oss or proprietary, active or dormant. And honestly many of them were inspired by PICO-8.
[1]: https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
- Lista de Fantasy Consoles/Computers
- Why hasn't anyone considered porting the game this way
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Video games that help you learn programming/networking/databases?
Also look into fantasy game consoles. They are emulators of fake game consoles that you make your own games for using built in tools and they use a variety of languages. They're usually free and/or open source, too. There's a master list here but to save you a click, the most popular/favorite ones are:
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does anyone know a game engine the emulates the power and limitations of the snes?
I know that there are a bunch of "fantasy consoles" that provide constrained programming environments more or less similar to developing on older consoles. Pico-8 and TIC-80 are two well-known ones. Quadplay looks interesting to me, probably a bit more powerful than the SNES, but in the ballpark, in terms of resolution and color capabilities.
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Hey, y10 high school student doing GCSEs for Computer science (and some other unrelated GCSEs), I’m thinking of maybe starting to code a small indie game, nothing big at all, when should I start coding a small game and what ‘equipment’ do I need?
If you're interested in small games, Google "fantasy console" and look through this list. A fantasy console is a collection of programming and art tools that limit and simplify the development process. They're often inspired by early home computer systems (70s-90s) that had great hobby programming scenes. Some are free (as in freedom or at least free beer) some are paid, none should be expensive.
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[ANDROID] [2014-2017] A shared computer simulator from the perspecive of my dumb child brain who din't know english but stayed with that memory for years
Here's a list of Fantasy Consoles, which is what your post sounds like it's describing.
- A curated list of fantasy consoles/computers
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TIC-80 Tiny Computer
Not an exhaustive list but check this out: https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
TIC-80
Posts with mentions or reviews of TIC-80.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
- 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.
https://tic80.com/
- Not only Unity...
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PicoCalc
I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0].
0. https://tic80.com/
- 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.
https://tic80.com
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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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fantasy and TIC-80 you can also consider the following projects:
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-PICO-8 - A curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more
wasm4 - Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
CROSS-LIB - CROSS LIB - A universal 8-bit library and some games built with it
pyxel - A retro game engine for Python
hoard-of-bitfonts - turns out I like bitmap fonts
quadplay - The quadplay✜ fantasy console
LIKO-12 - LIKO-12 is an open source fantasy computer made using LÖVE.
demo - Web-based version of the TX-2 simulator
ruffle - A Flash Player emulator written in Rust