I’ve always wanted to write games, but none of the engines I found were quite what I was looking for – 2D, pixelly in era-appropriate ways, with robust support for all the content I wanted to put in one. So I’m writing my own, and I’m putting my own touch on it. And since I didn’t really want to write my own engine either, I’m writing my own platform.<\/p>\n
The Fixl is a fantasy console along the lines of the Pico-8 or the TIC-80. However, instead of going for 8-bit minimalism, the Fixl aims to be able to simulate a roughly 16-bit-ish system as might have come from the early 90s. The intent is to have a platform that offers not just sharing games, but individual sprites, maps, sounds, music, and so on, all within the context of building bigger and better projects through collaboration.<\/p>\n
Right now there’s nothing much there. I’m implementing the guts of the system – this image is of the RAM viewer which is the only thing it can do just yet. Making fonts for the higher-resolution text layer has been a fun way to get into this (I’ve been messing around with pixel fonts for years, but my interests have always been more ambitious). The emulated CPU (a Game Boy-esque Z80 variant but running much faster and with access to 16 MB of RAM) is still a work in progress, as is the memory map that ties the whole project together, but when those are done I can start coding up small demos and hopefully at least getting something someone can play on their own.<\/p>\n
Then the real fun begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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