This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums.
I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.
I bought Voxatron in the humble voxatron debut bundle and i loved it just for what it was at that stage, all the updates past then were just bonuses to me.
I got excited about Pico-8 when I was reading, then I noticed its by the voxatron dev, THEN I notice it says if you already bought voxatron Pico-8 is free?!
I was hyped, now I'm hyped and happy. I was thinking about buying Pico-8, I wonder if this is a good business decision or not... I'll probably be raving on about it for a while now so the word of mouth might be worth $15.
Kinda makes me think 0x10c, developing games within a game. Someone should build hardware for this to run on :p
There are a few partial re-implementations of Pico-8. One is PicoLove (https://github.com/ftsf/picolove) and I've seen reference to another one that generates standalone binaries (I think Terry Cavanagh made it?).
Zeb has said on Twitter that he's fine with people building new runtimes.
This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums.
I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.