Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python
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HN comment orderSince it seems that many people here are unaware, so let me introduce Pico-8, the "Fantasy Video Game console" that is referenced in Pyxel's README as an inspiration: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php Pico-8 is (AFAIK) the program that kicked off a trend of simple game engines, and it is by far the most popular. A popular game that came out this year, Celeste, was originally a Pico-8 game that proved popular enough to remake in a more modern game engine. Pico-8 supports a…
A few years back I made some pyxel snippets for students in a class I was teaching, to help get them up to speed on using it: https://github.com/kris-classes/pyxel-snippets They may be useful to someone here if not too much has changed with pyxel since then.
Hi, there is a Pixel Art Software called Pyxel. You might want to change the name of your software. https://pyxeledit.com/
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2018-07-29 | Pyxel: a retro gaming console in Python | pjmlp | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-07-30 | Pyxel: a retro gaming console in Python | mariuz | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-07-31 | Kitao/pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python | axiomdata316 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-07-31 | Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python | trueduke | 1 | 1 |
| 2018-08-02 | Pyxel: A retro game development environment in PythonFirst breakout · Best thread | autocorr | 549 | 63 |
| 2021-10-03 | Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python | hidden-spyder | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-08-16 | Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python | memorable | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-01-03 | Kitao/pyxel: A retro game engine for Python | rcarmo | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-11-25 | Pyxel is a retro game engine for Python | ibobev | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-07-07 | Pyxel: A retro game engine for PythonHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | nateb2022 | 276 | 39 |