Posted January 23, 2022
Fantasy consoles is a projects about playing and sharing tiny retrogames without hardware limitations.
Currently the most popular fantasy console is PICO-8 (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php).
It feels like a real hardware, has amazing community and works on Windows, Linux, Mac and Raspberry Pi.
It's really fun to play on and can be great starting point for a game developer.
Specifications
Display: 128x128 16 colours
Cartridge Size: 32k
Sound: 4 channel chip blerps
Code: Lua
Sprites: 256 8x8 sprites
Map: 128x32 cels
All games for PICO-8 are DRM-free and open-source by design.
Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXveyqOYB5w
Let's make a PICO-8 Game in 30 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJN83kSzh2k
Also take a look at TIC-80 (https://tic80.com/), another cool project which is becoming popular.
Related subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyconsoles/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pico8/
https://www.reddit.com/r/tic80/
Currently the most popular fantasy console is PICO-8 (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php).
It feels like a real hardware, has amazing community and works on Windows, Linux, Mac and Raspberry Pi.
It's really fun to play on and can be great starting point for a game developer.
Specifications
Display: 128x128 16 colours
Cartridge Size: 32k
Sound: 4 channel chip blerps
Code: Lua
Sprites: 256 8x8 sprites
Map: 128x32 cels
All games for PICO-8 are DRM-free and open-source by design.
Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXveyqOYB5w
Let's make a PICO-8 Game in 30 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJN83kSzh2k
Also take a look at TIC-80 (https://tic80.com/), another cool project which is becoming popular.
Related subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyconsoles/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pico8/
https://www.reddit.com/r/tic80/