Picotron is described as 'Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create cute Lua apps that can be run inside Picotron as windowed userland processes, shared as cartridge files, or exported to stand-alone HTML apps' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Picotron for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Picotron alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Picotron are LÖVE, TIC-80, Mini Micro and PICO-8.
WASM-4 is a low-level fantasy game console for building small games with WebAssembly. Game cartridges (ROMs) are small, self-contained .wasm files that can be built with any programming language that compiles to WebAssembly.
8bitworkshop is a browser-based IDE for Atari 2600 development built on Javatari and DASM and CodeMirror .
LowRes NX is a simulated retro game console which can be programmed in the classic BASIC language. Make your own retro games on a virtual game console. Create sprites, tile maps, sound and music with the included tools.
Voxatron is a fantasy console system where games are made out of voxels and made available to the system as traditional cartridges that can be made from scratch through a built-in designer or remixed from other shared creations.
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BASIC8 is an integrated Fantasy Computer. Create, share and play disks in a modern BASIC dialect. Use built-in tools like sprite, tile and map editor to develop games fast while having fun with retro aesthetics.
Riko4 is a Fantasy Console intended as a tool for pixel art game development. Built with Lua and SDL2.
ECoS is a modern fantasy console based around the solid foundation of an Entity-Component-System architecture (ECS). Once learned, the use of an ECS can make game development and prototyping much faster and keep your code much more modular, making it easy to reuse, alter and...
FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is a coding application for Nintendo Switch. It has been designed and developed by a team of experienced gamers, programmers, artists and educators. The end result is a language ideally suited to coding games and apps for absolute beginners and seasoned...
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VectorBoy is a fantasy console that can be used to play your own games written in the LUA scripting language. Unlike other systems of its kind, it doesn't use pixels to display graphics. Instead, the screen displays straight lines to form graphics of all kinds.
ZANY80 is a fantasy console built around the Zilog Z80 processor (used in the classic Spectrum Z80 computer).
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