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by 0-_-0 1838 days ago
Something to look at if you want to encourage simple game development is supporting PICO-8 [0], or the compiled Nim version Nico [1].

[0]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=faq

[1]: https://github.com/ftsf/nico

1 comments

Thanks :-) I like especially the pico-8, as it's fairly easy to write an emulator for that, as far as I understand.
It's also way more popular, with lots of games. The most impressive one in my opinion:

https://freds72.itch.io/poom

Yep, that's amazing!!!

And it illustrates perfectly why what I am doing is cool.

I played that game in the browser and it looks great. But the controls are quite a bit laggy. That is not the developer's fault, they cannot do much about it. The medium that they chose is not designed for low latency.

My project enables developers to make a game like that more fun when you actually play it.