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I'd like to propose a new BBS forum category alongside 'Releases' and 'Work in Progress': 'Supporting'

Picotron is a lot more complicated than PICO-8 and is liable to have a lot more "support" or "non-end-user" releases, like tools intended for developers to use in making their final cartridges or utilities intended to be installed into the system for general use.

These differ from released games or sketches or demos in that they're not usually intended to be terribly useful or entertaining without using them from another place. Given Picotron's nature, I expect a lot of these.

This way, it would be easier to find games and novelties in Releases - but still look through the latest tools and utilities in Supporting. A future SPLORE-style system for Picotron might then be able to focus on just the more entertaining game-style or demo-style releases intended for end use, while hiding away the supporting packages used to make those items.

Does anyone else think this would this be helpful going forward?

P#143603 2024-03-18 00:16 ( Edited 2024-03-18 00:18)

yeah, we’ll have different types of carts!

games can have releases and wip and be shown in the future splore

demos, sfx, snippets, libraries and tools can be separate categories (maybe in splore too in separate tabs)

P#143626 2024-03-18 02:43

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