I wanna address a sentiment I've seen as recently as a few days ago regarding #picotron
When Picotron came out on Pi Day last year, a common sentiment was "I'll get into it when it's finished" and I think at that point that was fair. There were bugs and some basic features lacking.
About 15 months later, I can confidently say, Picotron is ready for you. It's stable and you can export to web and the big three OSes. There are countless tools to make real cool stuff. It's time to dig in.
// by default processes in #picotron 0.2.0e all run in the background, and get automatically niced to priority 0.01 when their window is not visible.
Hi, I'm Maya Zimmerman, a very small-time game dev and trans woman. My brain has some disorders and interesting stuff about it, some diagnosed.
For game dev work, #picotron is my engine of choice and I will gush about it whenever I can.
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#Picotron 0.2.0d is up on lexaloffle & humble
- rrect(x,y,w,h,r) & rrectfill() for rounded rectangles
- P8SCII command "\^o" for outlined text
- Edit or place multiple tiles at once (shift-select in gfx/map)
Changelog: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_changelog.txt
P8SCII Manual Entry: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_manual.html#P8SCII_Outlines
#picotron , despite having an indexed display rather than RGB, is capable of arbitrary color blending functions through the use of precomputed color tables. I'm using it here to shade sprites using an illuminance map. (Don't mind the CPU. I optimized this precisely not at all.)
#screenshotsaturday
Here’s Beast TV
https://nerfboy-com.itch.io/beast-tv-gamejam
A game I made in a week for the I, REBEL Atari Game Jam. Spec: “Create a game Jeff Minter will love”, theme: “A Perfect Beast”. I used the pre-release version of #Picotron to make a version of Robotron / Llamatron. This update also benefits from a week of bug-fixing & polish.
The Fountains new binary demo on https://thefountainsgame.com/ thanks to the #picotron new exporters.
Trying out rounded rectangles for #picotron 0.2.0d
rrect() / rrectfill() take x,y,w,h,radius -- so using a corner radius of 0 also provides an alternative to rect/rectfill when it suits to avoid "x,y,x+w-1, y+h-1" fluff.
Cake Cat: All Caked Up!
Eat cake!
Boost!
Become a champion!
I like 4-colour themed #picotron icons, but sometimes it's nice to be colourful too and I don't want to make everyone manage multiple icons. So.. standard colour mappings? (each row maps to a theme colour). meta.icon_themed could possibly still be optional but hidden for icon nerds.
Happy Pi Day Everyone :)
#Picotron 0.1 has been out for exactly one year, so it seems like a fitting time to release 0.2 with Binary Exporters :D 
You can get it now from lexaloffle: https://picotron.net (humble uploads coming soonish). To export to Windows, Mac and Linux:
> export foo.bin
Like PICO-8, it generates ready-to-distribute zip files. The manual also has some notes about possible future uses: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/picotron_manual.html#Exporting_Binary_Executables
Soft launched Cake Cat: All Caked Up on Lexaloffle! Gonna let it rest for a week while I create cover art for the usual sites. If you'd like to give it a play before it's released on Itch or Newgrounds, check it out!
Anyone interested in changing their Zed text editor to match the look of Picotron's you're in luck thanks to the work of @369369369, if anyone's interested the project can be found here: https://github.com/369px/Zep-Editor
