A retro game engine for Python
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May 25, 2022 - Rust
A fantasy console is a game engine and/or virtual machine simulating and inspired by 8-bit computers and consoles from yesteryear. It forces developers to work within constraints on color palettes, sound channels, resolution, memory, etc. Very popular in the retrogaming and game jam scenes.
The font bitmap has empty space reserved for ASCII characters 0x80 through 0xA0.
We should use that space for something, like icons for WASM-4 controller buttons, or generic sprites like stars/hearts/etc.
Games can then use hex string literals to easily display these: