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Re:Making Games by grog454 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:33PM (#36515225)
> You can make a shitty game in one sitting using today's tools; I've done so a bunch of times. My games all suck but they are games with art, music, sound, and gameplay that people can play and enjoy briefly.

I'm skeptical but would be happy to be proven wrong. What are some games you've made that satisfy:

1. Made and published in one sitting

2. Have legally sourced assets and code

3. Have people who don't know you personally that have indicated enjoyment of it

If this is a regular occurrence for you, I'm curious about the level of experience that got you to this point.

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Re:Making Games by electroly on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:39PM (#36515271)
This one doesn't have music but with another hour I could have added it. It's built using PICO-8 which is a Lua-based game development environment. It includes code/graphics/music editing tools and handles deploying to a static HTML.

http://electroly.com/games/parry1.html

Source code: https://github.com/electroly/games/blob/main/carts/parry1.p8

You can see it's not a very good or sophisticated game but it was done quickly and we had some fun on Twitch playing it. PICO-8 makes it easy to write tiny games. It's not so much about my skill but about the availability of streamlined indie game-making tools. There are other "fantasy console" products like PICO-8, and tools like GameMaker and RPG Maker target modern systems.

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Re:Making Games by FactualOrion on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:08AM (#36516943)
I don't know you personally so I'll help attest to the third requirement listed above, I hit a diaper and was impressed it was playable on mobile. It loaded extremely quickly and was enjoyable. My score was 220, but on a second go I got 550.
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