Topic Lords

295. Fantasy Malware


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Lords:

  • Andrew
  • Andrew
  • Topics:

    • Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years
    • PICO-8 screen carts
    • Picotron Viruses
    • Quest by kittenmaster
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      • Microtopics:

        • Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.
        • The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen.
        • Make 10 Deluxe.
        • Double Mustache's Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples.
        • Lizard Multiplication Tables.
        • Total Toads.
        • Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.
        • Children's Allegra, on Nick, Jr.
        • Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.
        • Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle.
        • Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that's nowhere near shipping.
        • Using the lessons you've learned making small games to make a bigger game.
        • Making an N64 game for modern PCs.
        • Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story.
        • 3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass.
        • What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.
        • Getting Keys in Rush 2.
        • How to collect keys in the middle of the air.
        • Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.
        • Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets.
        • Arcade games with a save system.
        • Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.
        • Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.
        • Looking at Picotron and thinking "I don't have time to draw that many pixels."
        • The Tweet Jam Andrews.
        • Is this really that interesting, Andrew?
        • Foreshadowing the poem.
        • How much game can you fit on one screen?
        • Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.
        • Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think.
        • Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen.
        • Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all.
        • STDIO jam.
        • Dig World and Dig World Realms.
        • Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.
        • Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.
        • Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.
        • The people who memorize the eye exam chart.
        • Rotting ROT13 a different amount.
        • Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security.
        • Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions.
        • Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing.
        • How beginners expect game programming to work.
        • Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.
        • A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons.
        • Turning off networking features for individual programs.
        • Writing a keylogger to read people's email and it turns out people's email is incredibly boring.
        • Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.
        • Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it.
        • The first S is for Secure.
        • Screen carts vs. tweet carts.
        • Colon colon home colon colon.
        • Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)
        • The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.
        • Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.
        • Alfonzo's Bowling Challengs.
        • Unlocking HD streaming at level 2.
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