Based on our record, TIC-80 seems to be a lot more popular than WASM-4. While we know about 66 links to TIC-80, we've tracked only 4 mentions of WASM-4. 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.
Let's keep it going :D Writing a Minimum Viable Cartridge for WASM4 (https://wasm4.org/) using WAT: https://twitter.com/warianoguerra/status/1748382204508410149 Wasm compilers in a tweet: https://twitter.com/warianoguerra/status/1576166873296941056. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
You should checkout WASM4⁽¹⁾, an Open Source WebAssembly-based fantasy console with 4 colors and a 160x160 screen. One of its advantages over TIC-80 is that you can program games in any language that compiles to WebAssembly. The games are tiny pure Wasm "carts" that can run on any Wasm runtime, from the browser to Nintendo 3DS. [1] https://wasm4.org. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
I created a showcase (and a Rust crate) which enables to create a random seed in the [wasm4](https://wasm4.org) fantasy console. With this seed a game could create a different map or other game items and events and would enable replaying the game with difference in these game items (if a different seed is chosen). In the wasm4 console (and potentially others) there is no source of random or a random number... Source: over 1 year ago
If you have a simple game idea you want to write, you can use wasm4 (https://wasm4.org). Source: over 1 year 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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