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by socalgal2 13 days ago
> Voxatron is a fantasy console and collection of games made entirely out of voxels (little colourful cubes, kind of). The Alpha version comes with an arena shooter and action-adventure cartridges as well as powerful design tools to make your own voxelly games.

What part of that is hard to understand?
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phist_mcgee 13 days ago
What is a fantasy console? Is this just software? If it's just software, is the fantasy console some kind of meta game or emulator?

It's not clear at all.

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Centigonal 13 days ago
It is an emulator for a console that does not exist in real life. People make games for this "console" because they are fun to play and fun to program.

The same developer made PICO-8, which is better known: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

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phist_mcgee 13 days ago
Lol well make that the headline!

I sometimes think that passionate nerds love their niche so much they forget that other people might not have the foggiest of what they're talking about.

Happens on github README.md files all the time.

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socalgal2 12 days ago
Here, Googled that for you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_video_game_console

I'm sure you'll just come back and say you shouldn't have to google it. But you have to draw the line somewhere. If they sold Cherry Pie, and you said "what's cherry pie, never heard of it" do I have to define both pie, cherry, and cherry pie? Or is that just up to you to go learn in on your own.

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