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What are the best fantasy consoles?

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Best fantasy consoles	Price	Languages	Platforms
-- PICO-8	14.99$	Lua	Windows, Linux, Mac, Pi, HTML5
-- Voxatron	$19.99	Lua	Windows, Linux, Mac
-- TIC-80	Free / Paid	Lua, JavaScript, Moonscript, Fennel, Wren	Web, Windows, Linux, Mac, Android
-- Script-8	Free	JavaScript	Web
-- Pyxel	Free	Python	-

PICO-8

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Very simple programing language

It's lua with a few modifications. See More

Top Con

Costs 15$

Unlike many of the other frameworks it's not free. However this is kind of a feature because it means it's much more likely to be supported. See More

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Got me started with coding in a non-frustrating way. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Pi, HTML5

Top Pro

Encourages building simple games

As a beginner it's all to tempting to try to make the games you like to play, like Zelda or Call of Duty when we should probably be making pong. See More

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Memory restrictions could be confusing or frustrating to a beginner

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Perhaps one of the easiest sound editors around

Top Con

No collision library or other common things

Pico-8 is very minimalistic and as such doesn't come with really any abstractions whatsoever which means often you end up re-inventing the wheel. See More

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Share the game in a .png file with other Pico-8 users

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Lots of examples

Almost every game made for the Pico-8 is open source (if you can download the .png, you can see the source). Also there's the fancy Pico-8 "fanzine" that has lots of code examples as well as other great tutorials in a beautiful physical or PDF form. See More

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Takes away the pain of having to wire things together

Because it's an all in one product, you don't have to worry about things like how to load sprites. See More

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Cool interface

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You can read the code of any game you play

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Music editor is great

TIC-80

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All tools in one place

The app contains tools for coding, sprite editing, map editing, sfx and music editing. See More

Top Con

No exporting without editor yet

RickZeeland's Experience

TIC-80 is an open-source mini retro game engine for making 240x136 pixels 16 color game "cartridges", it has built-in tools for development: code, sprites, maps, sound editors and the command line. See More

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Languages:Lua, JavaScript, Moonscript, Fennel, Wren

Platforms:Web, Windows, Linux, Mac, Android

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Free

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Export

Exports easily to Windows, Windows-XP, mac, Linux and HTML. See More

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Many Scripting languages' supported

Use awesome scripting languages like: Lua, Wren, Moonscript, JS, Ruby, etc. See More

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Retro-styled and restricted environment

Pixelated Software with a good retro style. See More

Script-8

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Languages:JavaScript

Pyxel

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Languages:Python

Atto

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Languages:Basic

Platforms:Browser

PX8

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Languages:Lua, Python, Rust

Vircon32

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Nibble

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Platforms:Window, Linux, Mac, Nibble

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