• 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
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kvg10u32.png

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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• Ben
• Andrew

Topics:

• Super Nintendo World's theming is on point
• The ABC of Style - A Guide to Plain English (book)
• Can you still rent game consoles?
• Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
  • https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
  • https://itch.io/jam/variety-megajam-2022/topic/2514101/2nd-poem-
• Pixel art impressionism
  • https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1801616946837823790

Microtopics:

• The games you should've bought when the Steam Spring Sale was still going.
• Citizen Sleeper 2.
• Being excited about a new project until you landlord tells you to move out.
• Real-life POW blocks.
• Timing your punch so that the shell pops out.
• The park employees doing their best to ameliorate the bad game design of the theme park.
• Rushing to hit the snooze button so the piranha plant doesn't wake up.
• A plant that's not quite as big as Audrey II.
• Buying the wrist band so that you can punch blocks to get coins and find all the KONG letters.
• Using your shadow to interact with a video game.
• Running from the park entrance to your favorite ride right when the park opens and there's already a two hour line.
• A picture that you took with your camera and somehow they made reality look cel shaded.
• Super Mushroom Croutons.
• Clipping the AR goggles into the Mario hat.
• No matter where you look, stuff is happening all the time.
• Whether kids in Japan handle failure better than kids in California.
• A phone booth, except it exists.
• A book about pedantry.
• When to use difference vs. discrepancy.
• Reading text aloud but internalizing it not at all.
• The model of the mind where you are a passive observer sitting in the backseat thinking about pancakes while the driver is doing all the thinking and acting.
• Whether the person who struggles to read gets more out of the text than the person who reads effortlessly, because they're spending more time on it
• Two full pages about "like."
• Faces similar to faces you've never seen before.
• Drive it like you hate it vs. drive it as if you hate it.
• Utilizing a big word.
• Phrasing something in an awkward way for entertainment purposes.
• One of the more expensive things you can rent.
• Being able to afford all the games that you want. (Not that many game consoles.)
• Naughty Dog remaking The Last of Us for the third time.
• Sending an assassin to the Second to Last Blockbuster.
• Not knowing how a certain business works because you refuse to give them your social security number.
• Digitally renting a PS5. (It has fingers.)
• Putting stickers on your toilet claiming that it's an Xbox.
• Building a Mario Kart course into your house.
• Sharing your cool social security number.
• Pronouncing Japanese like someone who is covered in tattoos of Pokemon.
• Frog-jump-in Water-sound.
• Pond. Frog. Plop.
• Localizing a Japanese poem into sculpture.
• What is art? What is anything?
• Looking at a pixel art face and thinking "whoa, what's going on with that guy?"
• Pixel art being able to represent detail at a certain scale, but only if it aligns with the directionality of the grid.
• Trying to represent a cartoon world realistically.
• Walking into a dungeon and being surrounded by statues that look like sentries.
• Recognizing a blob of pixels as representing the idea of a decoration and never thinking about it again.
• Fan art of Dr. Robotnik's niece.
• High color, high detail, low resolution.
• Weird rendering techniques that are texture mapping adjacent.
• Line Cook.
• A blue lid that feels sort of mayo.
• Only realizing late in life that three lines makes a ladder.
• The main places that you don't post.

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