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Andrew
Andrew

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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