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Topics:

• Finally making a 3D game after using only PICO-8 for 10 years


• PICO-8 screen carts


• Picotron Viruses


• Quest by kittenmaster
  
  
  
  
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Microtopics:

• Professional software developers trying to figure out a terrible UI.


• The Real Andrew – it says so on my computer screen.


• Make 10 Deluxe.


• Double Mustache's Lizard Multiplication, now available in a cardboard box in Staples.


• Lizard Multiplication Tables.


• Total Toads.


• Pizza Panda vs. Pizza Possum.


• Children's Allegra, on Nick, Jr.


• Eugene, Oregon, the grass seed capital of the world.


• Scientists discovering an exciting new antihistamine in the medicine aisle.


• Working on whatever feature strikes your fancy for a year and ending up with an undirected project that's nowhere near shipping.


• Using the lessons you've learned making small games to make a bigger game.


• Making an N64 game for modern PCs.


• Two people with the same name, the same headphones, and the same back story.


• 3D cameras: a huge pain in the ass.


• What makes San Francisco Rush different from Mario Kart.


• Getting Keys in Rush 2.


• How to collect keys in the middle of the air.


• Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom and other car platformers.


• Extending the lifetime of an arcade game by adding weird secrets.


• Arcade games with a save system.


• Feeding Smash Tokens into the gacha system.


• Super Mario Bros.: The Movie: The Game.


• Looking at Picotron and thinking "I don't have time to draw that many pixels."


• The Tweet Jam Andrews.


• Is this really that interesting, Andrew?


• Foreshadowing the poem.


• How much game can you fit on one screen?


• Code golfing and limiting yourself to typeable characters.


• Reading a David Ahl book and realizing you want to tell the sand how to think.


• Playing music on the PC speaker and printing funny phrases on the screen.


• Writing a series of text mode animations in C in 1992 and then losing them all.


• STDIO jam.


• Dig World and Dig World Realms.


• Typing in 6 pages of ROT13 text.


• Writing an adventure game with a novel-length source code listing and demanding that players type it in.


• Accidentally reading ROT13 spoilers.


• The people who memorize the eye exam chart.


• Rotting ROT13 a different amount.


• Running ROT13 multiple times for extra security.


• Competing ROT13 implementations that rotate in different directions.


• Games in which the game state includes what line of code is currently executing.


• How beginners expect game programming to work.


• Deliberately contracting the Picotron virus where the characters fall to the bottom of your screen.


• A monster that runs around on your desktop and eats your icons.


• Turning off networking features for individual programs.


• Writing a keylogger to read people's email and it turns out people's email is incredibly boring.


• Writing a keylogger by hooking the keyboard interrupt and not bothering to log the state of the shift key.


• Capturing the handshake and brute forcing it.


• The first S is for Secure.


• Screen carts vs. tweet carts.


• Colon colon home colon colon.


• Question mark? Puzzlescript man. (Or weird asterisk.)


• The new default Pico-8 code editor background color.


• Forgetting to screen shot the pixels so you open the image in Photoshop and add the pixels back.


• Alfonzo's Bowling Challengs.


• Unlocking HD streaming at level 2.

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