Watched a video recently, and one thought still sticks in my head. That we can choose our own path in games, basically building it.

It’s interesting how over time my game preferences have changed. By genre, mood, time to beat, indie/AAA, etc.

Another PICO-8 game recommendations.

In first half of July we continue our crazy weekends with mountain hiking and Exit Festival. Afterwards, we settled down and started to relax after 2-3 months of traveling, festivals and other stuff.

June started with preparations for vacation and then vacation itself. 3-day Rock im Park in Nürnberg, a quick trip to Dortmund (not the best time here as they were preparing for the Euro Cup), and finished trip in Helsinki.

Week at home, and here we go again: a new trip, this time to Arsenal Fest in Kragujevac.

Besides this: meetings with friends, cinema, stand-up in English, etc…

At first — what is PICO-8?

PICO-8 is a virtual machine and game engine created by Lexaloffle Games. Games are written based on LUA language, you can play in browser or natively. “Cartridges” are png-files.

The most important difference in development is the token limit (8192). Tokens are variables, operators, etc. Thus, developers often have to be creative, plus the games are short (if they are not roguelikes).