You’ve always been gamedev Mr Rogers to me Chris 🤓

As promised, here's a writeup of how this system works :)

torcado.com/blog/simple-platformer

There's a playable demo and download for the p8 cart on that page. It's CC0, do whatever you want with it ❤️

@goblinpunch.bsky.social My GM and I are big fans of your work. I am working on a text adventure game reminiscent of old INFOCOM games loosely based on "The Meal Of Oshregaal".

ryanbmalm.com/textadventure/

Aladdin Pico-8 Pixel Art

Love it! Your Alladin has Sir Graham KQ1 vibes

Doring more experimenting with userdata operations in #picotron - this time out a particle system with batch drawing. The result: fireworks over Düsseldorf, reflected in the Rhine.

So, finding out userdata operations in #picotron are pretty powerful? Here's real-time handwritten digit recognition in Picotron, with the model updating each frame and only using around 4% of the CPU.

The Year of the Picotron Desktop $CurrentYear+1 will be the year of the Picotron desktop!

New Blog Post: The Year of the Picotron Desktop

arnaught.neocities.org/blog/2025/03...

It's been a year (March 14, 2024, I believe) since Picotron's alpha released, so I made a big blog post cataloging (most of) the stuff I've made in #Picotron in the past year!

A larger-scale sense of value change for the top of the cloud vs the bottom. Think of the whole thing as one big blob, what should be light vs dark?

I never thought about doing node garden type stuff with non-random point sets. This is very cool! 👀

goood morning y'all! DID YOU KNOW i've been making a bunch of browser games in #PICO8 and a bunch of them are nice to do on your phone!!

adamatomic.itch.io

Another #pixelart landscape, more WIP on #picotron extended palette. I've re-arranged the additional indices to align with the first two rows of 16. bottom half palette is just colors repeated but in ramp arrangement simliar to gfx editor.

Working on polishing up the shop cartridge, I'm not tottaly set on the character art yet though.
#pico8 #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #pixelart #umbragame

Some progress on the turret enemy

#StarIliad #PixelArt #Metroidvania #IndieDev #GameDev

#picotron 0.1.1f is up on lexaloffle and humble. www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

changes (mostly bug fixes): www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...

an industrial area made in #picocad

2nd in a series of little #pixelart pieces to test my 64-color extended #picotron palette

#picotron mockup: stickers can be attached to any window and live in file metadata. They can be used to bookmark, annotate, or tag arbitrary files. For some apps, they can be attached with finer granularity: e.g. to a line of code or an xy on a map layer. Here is a dev/player making notes on a map.

An endless runner prototype inspired by those dumb AI tests.

#picotron #pico8 #gamedev

Well… it’s a start.
#picotron #gamedev

Continuing WIP on #pixelart to demo, tweak and kick the tires on my #picotron extended palette

Quick forest pixel art, testing out my extended #picotron palette
#pixelart #gamedev

Check out ablebody's sphere impostor, I'm using it in a project and it's very fast. I'd say yes, you'll probably have to precalc your noise textures. www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=146...

Every day's a school day for me with #gamedev!

So used to working with RGB, nice to learn a bit of HSV for colour transitions!

Have the #dropzone style enemies in place (although some behave like #defender). Time to start adding some (semi) original stuff to this game!

#picotron #pico8 #arcade

Fantasy consoles do it right; convenience of built in tools, immediate mode drawing api where you control everything down to the pixel. Smol enough you don’t need GPU for tricky stuff

i released a game! i've been working on this for the past few months.

it's a short, casual tile laying game where you can really get into the weeds, optimising for high scores.
price: free!
where: catnipped.itch.io/powertile
read more about it here: catnipped.bearblog.dev/powertile-pr...

bbs:// explorer is somehow way cooler than I imagined. I've already discovered 3 carts I somehow missed browsing the forum! It takes me back to listing the contents of dial-in BBS systems or browsing shareware disks. So cool #picotron

Status Line by Christopher Drum Play Zork (and more!) on your Pico-8

Status Line

Play Retro and Modern Classic z-machine Text Adventures on the Pico-8 (including the Zork Trilogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Trinity, and many more.)

A mini laptop called the gpd win running Picotron

My #Picotron Workstation! Running on a GPD Win 1 and using Eric Canales' Picotron Laptop Bridge. Took me a while to get to this point but it works with relatively few issues now :D

(isn't it so cute???)

WND #Gouache on Kraft card, about 8"x5"
#artist #art #sketch #painting