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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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