You definitely want to learn more about #uxn: 100r.co/site/uxn.html It is a really great minimalistic retro-inspired #virtualmachine based ecosystem... And there are even ports for vintage platforms!
#retrogaming #fantasyconsole #retrodev #retrogamedev #retrogaming #gamedev #retrocomputing
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So, does anyone here want to share their experiences with #fantasyconsole -s? (If they responded to the above survey, or even if not:)
#FantasyConsole
Those who played -- which one(s)? -- and those who dev'd: care to share the link?:)
For those who aren't familiar: These are like emulators for hardware that never existed. It's a constrained environment for creating games, and these limitations are supposed to spark creativity (and they do). Many also just like them for the retro aesthetic of the limited colors and sound chips.
Some game play of a game I created using LowresNX. A fantasy console based on BASIC as a language.
Now that I'm almost done with my first finished #pico8 game, I need to challenge myself to finish past projects as well. I didn't finish ASTRO because I ran out of sprite space and the code was becoming hard to understand. But I have a fresh new confidence now after being able to finish Gemstone Dredging!
people are already making custom games using kitsune tails' scripting engine, and the fanciest one thus far is this version of flappy bird called foxy bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNm8Sax9PPA
it's just... amazing
surprise! i put a fantasy console in kitsune tails! not only can you use the free and open source tiled map editor to create custom levels, but you can create your own games in lua using the same simple framework we used ourselves for all the minigames in the game. this gif is me making a sample game i call "ghostzilla" from scratch
oh right, and we've prepared an arcade and over half a dozen minigames for you in the game. one's even 3D! check out the full trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQkhejCoRs
wishlist & more info at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
Coding your GUI in Picotron is fun and easy.
I just made a little tutorial explaining my process and what I do. If you feel lost understanding gui.lua this is the video for you!
https://youtu.be/N3QsfHMJftU
#picotron #pico8 #fantasyconsole #gui
We have gems popping!
#pico8 #gamedev #pixelart #fantasyconsole
grabbed a background from opengameart.org (https://opengameart.org/content/backgrounds-3) processed it and slotted it into the battle scene i've been working on and
yeah, i'd say that works pretty well?
Got my OpenGLide test app running on target hardware!
Turns out I was able to revert several texture-related things because the VC4 driver supports way more GL extensions than I thought it did... 
Fantasy console update: Just added & polished some more of these examples from last year and you can play with them here:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/fantasy-console/
Instructions:
- Press `1` - `6` to select/launch/reset any of the examples
- Press `Space` to download screenshot
- Apart from the raster bars and lissajous curve all other demos can be interacted with via mouse
- Open the browser console to see the (already transpiled) source code of all examples
Example #1: Scribble & color cycling
Hold down left mouse button to cycle the colors (the current palette is also always shown in bottom-left corner). Nice, powerful oldskool effect, which is actually easier to do with these indexed, non-RGB pixel buffers[1]
Example #2: Lissajous bobs
The spheres are actually 2x2 tiles of 8x8 pixel sprites with one color slot chosen as transparency. Drawing 100 spheres here, but could be a lot more...
Example #3: Raster bars
This oldskool effect is achieved via HSYNC interrupts only, i.e. no lines are being drawn — for every single pixel row we simply change the color value of the first palette entry. The text is also only being drawn once, at startup...
Example #4: Particle system
Simple particle system (2k particles) with the emitter position linked to the mouse. 6% probability for larger particles.
Example #5: Random pattern
Classic oldskool generative art, here by defining 4 custom bitmap font characters and then drawing a single randomly chosen char per frame
Example #6: Bitmap font editor
Select a character on the RHS to edit in the left box. Left click to set a pixel, right click to clear it. Press `Delete` to clear the char entirely. The system supports proportional width fonts and the little red triangle can be moved horizontally to adjust the width of each char... Clicking on the `Save` button will download a JSON file of the font's binary data (9 bytes per char: width + 8 data bytes)
In preparation for teaching a 3-day "Computing within limits" workshop @ University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, almost exactly a year ago (next week) I created a little fantasy console (heavily inspirered by TIC80) to introduce students to:
- the idea of virtual machines / computing environments
- the freedom to design & control any aspect of that environment (and how this relates to the overall idea of personal computing these days)
- designing & building a small (virtual) env from the bottom up (incl. defining opcodes, memory limits, maps/regions, device control registers, interrupts (hsync/vsync), device I/O, comms & multi-tasking possibilities, various retro-computing inspired graphics techniques)
- defining a small low-level API/language for creative coding
- learning about binary/hex and how that knowledge translates visually
The short video gives an overview of five small examples & tools (incl. a bitmap font editor) I had prepared for the workshop — the entire system was built within a couple of days with http://thi.ng/umbrella and incl. examples is only 12KB (gzipped). In the workshop we later ended up mostly using the TIC80 instead, since we covered quite a few other wider perma- & retro-computing related topics too... The 3 days were barely enough to provide an overview and have some exploration time...
If anyone is interested in a similar workshop, please do let me know, I'm keen to repeat it/extend it...
(Ps. I will post a link to the interactive version later too)
[1] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110298576315429647
#ThingUmbrella #Workshop #VM #FantasyConsole #TIC80 #LowLevel #CreativeCoding #RetroComputing #Augsburg
cc @danielrothaug :)
Decided for shits n' grins to port PureDOOM to my Dreambox fantasy console.
It was not hard at all, it turns out. Audio was probably the trickiest part, since Dreambox is really not super designed for streaming realtime audio (but it is technically doable)
made the walls a wee bit higher (still not as high as they probably should be but eh)
how's this feel scale wise? do the walls feel tall enough? does the viewport feel too "zoomed in"?
hrm. 3:2 isometric isn't terrible? 
it's a little lopsided but that might not be so bad, kinda breaks up those super straight angles you get on 2:1 dimetric iso
