Articles tagged with gaming

  1. Breakout

    An animated image of breakout gameplay

    Continuing with the 20 Games Challenge, I've implemented breakout as a PICO-8 game. I found it was quite similar to pong, the previous game I wrote, though I ran into some new troubles. Notably, the ball is supposed to increase in speed as you break bricks. The way I'm handling …

  2. Pong

    After looking through the tutorials I referenced in my previous post on PICO-8 game development, I decided I needed to get a little more practice with less guidance to really learn how to make games on PICO-8. Luckily for me, someone shared the so-called 20 Games Challenge on a Discord …

  3. Retro Gaming

    A few years back I discovered emulation on Android, and was hooked. I thought it was amazing I could play games from my childhood on modern hardware and have dozens or hundreds of them without needing to swap cartridges or worry about filling up my hard drive. Most of the …