Procraftination Simulator 3000
Ever want to surf the web AND use PICO-8?
Not wasting enough of your time?
Welcome to Procrastination Simulator 3000!
This WIP is my attempt to learn how to use LUA and PICO-8 in a more or less unconventional manner.
Controles
-Up scrolls up.
-Down scrolls down.
-more to come later.
Currently I am trying to:
-Get everything to display correctly
-Get text to generate in appropriate places
Next up:
-Refine the art
-Make the pages
-SFX
-BGM
-Art that allows for the drinking of soda and laughing (+SFX)
-Ideas for the initial 8 web pages
After that:
-Add in some more humor and counters
-Maybe more web pages
Feel free to fix/edit/steal anything here. Seeing how others with more exp do the same thing will be useful for me to see.
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PiCOnsole-8
UPDATE: Added a concept using pico-cad. not very specific but it was a lot of fun
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The purpose of this physical console is to:
1. Capture the retro-inspired essence of the Pico-8 software in a physical form, while re-imagining what it means to have a physical cartridge
2. Have old meet new with a sleek yet elegant 30x65mm body.
3. Reduce e-waste and create something that can be used as it is, or gut /hack it for different projects. This is achieved via the following concepts:
3.1. Doing away with the idea that a “physical cartridge” needs to be a separate part printed every time. However, it is important to capture the essence of a physical cartridge in a newly inspired way. The 33mm IPS 240x240p display on the front of the console has the sole purpose of displaying the art of the cart being played; not the game play itself. This is intentional because despite the console's small form-factor, it is meant to be plugged into a power source and a TV, just like in the old days.
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First time posting! I just finished setting up Pico-8 on my Raspberry Pi Zero WH. Took me a long time but I want to pass on my experience incase someone else wants to try this.
I wanted to have a portable console, so I bought the Game Pi 20 (GAMEPI20) case to use as my initial build. (because it was cheap and I am still tinkering with this system).
I chose Retropie because it's an app running on top of Raspbian Lite, and I wanted to keep using this as a functional terminal-based computer when not gaming.
- First off, I flashed the image for Retropie 4.7.1 found here to a 16gb SD card:
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi20#Hardware_connection
- Then I followed the hardware instructions here:
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi20_Assembly
- I followed the tutorial at this youtube link to get retropie set up with Pico-8, but read my step 4 before you watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEECUe_t51o
- The Controller:
4.1 In the video, the creator doesn't make it very clear, but the -SPLORE.sh file should be put in the ROMS folder for the pico-8.
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