295. Fantasy Malware

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.