I’ve been seeing videos for it all over Mastodon and it’s really cool. I never got into Pico-8 since I felt it was too limiting, but Picotron looks a lot more open and easy to use. Really want to get my hands on it when it’s out of alpha.
I think you hit the nail on the head about it providing a limited environment but with modern features. It captures the feeling of what it may have been like to make a Game Boy Color game but without the headache of actually trying to get that set up. Similar to how Arduino made programming microcontrollers easy (they were founded because the founders found it annoying to do).
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