Get started to write my own game? (I am a programmer)
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Hello world!
I am new to the recalbox world and I actually come from raspbian.
I know what raspberry pi could do generally. And the recalbox project seems very powerful on playing existing roms. However I would like to write my own game. Probably a simple mario-like game or RPG.how to get started? any directions would be good. I still have no idea after looking the FAQ and google search.
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@mfkenson Hello I would advise to try with pico-8 which is pretty straightforward, although the documentation is sometimes unclear.
It is not free, it costs somewhere around 15€Even if you end working with another game motor, pico-8 is simple and very good to learn the base of 2D game programming
@acris and I even worked on a unofficial integration into recalbox which you can find in my signature
others candidates : game maker, unity, but you won't be able to use them on the pi
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@mfkenson out of the box you could check the lua framework (lutro emulator) wich is already part of recalbox.
EasyRPG has a libretro port as far as I know, so you could think of integrating it into recalbox if programming for it is an option.If your question was answered, please mark it as solved: Topic Tools -> Ask a question + Topic Tools -> Mark as Solved
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yep @paradadf is right, lua is good too, and pico-8 uses a subset of lua
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I am impressed the tiny pico-8 could do all tasks including game development.
However it seems that it is not efficient to do the development in that window, is it?Meanwhile I am reading the https://github.com/felipebueno/awesome-PICO-8 .
(https://github.com/movAX13h/P8Coder seems good.)What is your recommended way to program?
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@mfkenson I didn't programm that much with it but the included editor inside pico8 is maybe simple but usefull too.
I see you found the awesome github, everything should be in it, I remember someone writing something allowing the editing of the cart's code through notepad++
