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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by archargelod on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:01AM (#37496189)
> Final plug is of course PICO8.

Cannot not mention a Tic80. It is a FOSS alternative to PICO8.

Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, moonscript, ruby, squirrel, wren, fennel, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added.

https://tic80.com

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80

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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by dicytea on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:04AM (#37496221)
There's also these:

- https://github.com/kitao/pyxel (Python)

- https://github.com/minigdx/tiny (Lua)

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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by marttt on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:57PM (#37499570)
And also Load81 by Antirez: https://github.com/antirez/load81 (Lua).
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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by niutech on Sunday September 17, 2023 @06:08PM (#37549796)
There are more:

https://github.com/picolove/picolove (Love2D)

https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/ (Lua)

https://hallucino.itch.io/px8 (Lua/Python)

https://liko-12.github.io/ (Lua)

https://github.com/antirez/load81 (Lua)

https://wasm4.org/ (WASM)

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