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p5.js
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gb-studio
A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system
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Lua
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
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LWJGL
LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.
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awesome-gamemaker
A curated list of awesome libraries, snippets, guides, and projects for GameMaker.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better TIC-80 alternative or higher similarity.
TIC-80 discussion
TIC-80 reviews and mentions
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-30.
- RPG in a Box
- From C++ to Clojure: New Language Promises Best of Both
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WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console
Here for example is a rust template: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/main/templates/rust
- Antirez/load81: SDL based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea
- X11-Basic (1991-2020)
- Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
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The Fennel Programming Language
You'll always need to deal with a bit of Lua afaik. If you like fantasy consoles, you can use TIC-80[1] to not have to deal with any Lua.
[1] https://tic80.com/
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Ask HN: What's the most fun you've had developing for an older gaming system?
Not 100% retro but I've had a lot of fun doing Tiny Code Christmas[1] the last couple of years on TIC-80 [2]
For actual retro system. 68000 assembler on the Atari ST is fun or for a slightly different challenge the Amiga
[1] https://tcc.lovebyte.party/
[2] https://tic80.com/
- What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
- Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
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nesbox/TIC-80 is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of TIC-80 is C.
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