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Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc.
- Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
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Learn python for a 13 year old
Just make games with pyxel https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
- Now that Godot is on Epic Store...
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Web App Generation Feature Added to Pyxel, a Retro Game Engine for Python
A function to automatically generate an application launch URL has been added to Pyxel, a retro game engine for Python (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel please add your star to this repository!).
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Python Alternative to Pygame similar to LÖVE ?
PySDL2(lower level than Love) and Pyxel(more like PICO-8 but scripted with Python).
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Any open source games written in Python? Ideally, something being actively developed
I've been really stoked about the game engine Pyxel lately. Not the right choice for expansive games that you can release on Steam to make big bucks. But for hobbyist who want to start out, it's tremendous. There are loads of open-sourced games made with Pyxel to learn from
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MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem
I'm pretty sure you have to use lua with PICO-8, last I looked at it there wasn't a way to plug in your own language.
You could look at TIC-80 and WASM with micropython compiling to WASM (or even full python).
Or... just use a python tool inspired by PICO-8: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
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Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week?
Just discovered Pyxel, a retro game engine, in another thread on this sub, and it's fantastic!
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Engine for 10-year-old who also wants to learn how to write code (ie. not block programming)
I think Building Bytepath is a great tutorial, and I think the extra exercises it gives you are great to make you think about what you're learning.
What are some alternatives?
Arcade - Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.
TIC-80 - TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
processing - Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
Moondust-Project - Moondust Project by Wohlstand
CToy - Interactive C live coding environment
erg - A statically typed language compatible with Python
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
middleclass - Object-orientation for Lua
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
pygame - zombie shooter game in python/pygame