Pyxel might be a bit more popular than 8bitworkshop. We know about 26 links to it since March 2021 and only 18 links to 8bitworkshop. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I wish 8bitworkshop got more love. It is amazing. From the homepage "Write 8-bit code in your browser. Ever wanted to be an old-school game programmer? Learn how classic game hardware worked. Write code and see it run instantly." It lets you get your feet wet in Verilog without buying the hardware first. This description doesn't do it justice at all so check it out. https://8bitworkshop.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I have actually recently picked up Atari 2600 homebrew development as a hobby. My reasons are: 1. The hardware is simple enough that you can completely understand everything that is going on. And you absolutely need to understand it, if you want to make good games. Just a great feeling of power and control. 2. You need to use assembly. Even with 8-bit era computers you don't really need to use assembly. Sure, for... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Always happy to see more documentation out there. I have a bigger document posted on my website, which includes setting up X11 with XFCE4, but it includes everything else needed to do Intellivision indie game development. I had to do it this way because Intellivision is the one console not included in 8-Bit Workshop. Also, I had to go with Tiger VNC, because XServer XSDL simply didn't like XFCE4 and was getting... Source: over 1 year ago
I'd recommend that anyone actually interested in the underlying reason read Stephen Higgs awesome book on programming games for the NES. http://8bitworkshop.com. Source: over 1 year ago
Steve Hugg has a few nice books on the topic https://8bitworkshop.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc. https://github.com/kitao/pyxel. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
There's also game engines which are fun to use in python, like pyxel. Source: about 1 year ago
A function to automatically generate an application launch URL has been added to Pyxel, a retro game engine for Python (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel please add your star to this repository!). Source: about 1 year ago
It's fine. You might also enjoy working with Pyxel, which is a little more pixellated and fun and not exactly "classically production ready" either. (I mean, games like Papers, Please could be programmed in Pygame, but that's about it). Source: over 1 year ago
PySDL2(lower level than Love) and Pyxel(more like PICO-8 but scripted with Python). Source: over 1 year ago
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LowRes NX - Make your own games in BASIC on the LowRes NX fantasy console
PX8 - Open-source, Rust based fantasy console.
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