Based on our record, TIC-80 seems to be a lot more popular than TyranoBuilder. While we know about 66 links to TIC-80, we've tracked only 3 mentions of TyranoBuilder. 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.
Now if you don't mind paying a bit, TyranoBuilder is a plug and play type engine that you can build games on without much programming. There's also Visual Novel Maker, though I don't really know if VNM is better than Tyrano. The kinda plus side of VNM is that it comes with some pre-packaged assets. Source: over 2 years ago
Anyways, here's a link to their website; http://tyranobuilder.com. Source: over 2 years ago
Alternatively, if you'd rather do little/no coding, you could try TyranoBuilder, it's like $15 and it's super straightforward to use. There's also Visual Novel Maker which is a more feature-packed engine, and supports javascript for custom features. Source: almost 3 years ago
The Pico-8 is great, but https://tic80.com/ is really cool too. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages. https://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Or its open source cousin TIC-80: http://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0]. 0. https://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, squirrel, wren, janet, wasm, ... And just recently - a Python support was added. https://tic80.com. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
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