I have scheduled the video
SATURDAY GAMES FEST
for tomorrow! See the games that the kiddos made.

https://youtu.be/KPdz14haFik

#Gamedev #Education #Tic80

Saturday Games Fest - New games made by kids this week!

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Some images from students' projects yesterday.

#Tic80 #gamedev #education

@eniko @TomF @Moosader If you want to go even more meta, here's the repo for a workshop I ran with design students at Augsburg uni a few years ago to build a TIC-80 inspired fantasy console ourselves:

https://github.com/thi-ng/fantasy-console/

Written in TypeScript, includes custom DSL, runs in the browser, includes six demos (incl. bitmap font editor). More details in readme

#FantasyConsole #Workshop #ThingUmbrella #TypeScript #TIC80 #RetroComputing #BitmapFont

Working on Tic80 lessons for kids' game programming class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5A-UdHPh0

#Tic80 #Lua #education

Working on Tic80 lessons for a kids' coding course

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Working on my Getting Started with Game Development course page and lessons for this coming week. Once again using Tic80 and Lua to introduce kids grades 4 to 9 to programming. :)

http://courses.moosadee.com/GameDevelopmentTic80/

#Tic80 #Lua #Education #Gamedev #CompSci

So, the #AI discourse got me uncomfortably close to burnout again, I retreated a bit from socials and contributions to the #rereading project and focused on tinkering with #tic80 and having fun.

The AI discourse knocked at my door, asking where I've been.

Here's a few words laid out in defense of community I started to contribute to because it valued things that I think generative technologies and their proponents are opposite to:

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/discussions/2938#discussioncomment-17111596

General policy in regards of the use of AI (LLM) · nesbox TIC-80 · Discussion #2938

Is there a general policy towards using LLM for contributing to TIC-80? I'd really like to work on the inclusion of the FORTH language into TIC-80, but if AI is not tolerated it doesn't worth to tr...

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This coming Monday at 21:00 BST, we will be having a blåhaj-themed #tic80 and #glsl shader jam. Join us on https://twitch.tv/FieldFxDemo on the night, or drop a message beforehand if you'd like to play! #demoscene #livecoding
(Image credit @kii)

TweetTweetJam 11 is here! Come join the fun and make a game using only 500 characters of code!

https://itch.io/jam/tweettweetjam-11

#tweettweetjam #pico8 #picotron #tic80 #gamejam #gamedev