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a Game Framework in Nim inspired by Pico-8.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2020-06-23 · latest 2024-02-17

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  1. There is also Nico, written in Nim therefore can be compiled for the Web or as a native binary: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
    comment by WithinReason · 2024-02-17 · in Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
  2. There is the Nim-based Nico: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2023-10-02 · in Publishing my first game using PICO-8
  3. …if Nim could be a good tool here by compiling to C, here is a PICO-8 inspired lib written in it: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
    comment by WithinReason · 2022-02-14 · in Arduboy
  4. I used NICO before which is programmed in Nim: https://github.com/ftsf/nico Being Nim-based means the result can be compiled to C or JavaScript, so it can run at native speed or in the browser.
    comment by WithinReason · 2021-10-03 · in PICO-8 – Fantasy Console
  5. The PICO-8 has a Nim-based variant called Nico: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2021-07-04 · in Pico-8 API Cheatsheet
  6. …Its focus is making simple games, which is a great way to learn a new language ( wink wink )! [0]: https://github.com/ftsf/nico [1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2021-06-23 · in NimConf 2021
  7. …[0], or the compiled Nim version Nico [1]. [0]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=faq [1]: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2021-06-03 · in Raspberry Pi 4 OpenBSD based home computer/gaming console
  8. …) (Extremely portable) - Phaser ( https://phaser.io/ ) (HTML5 framework) - Nico ( https://github.com/ftsf/nico ) (The PICO-8 API in Nim) - Pixel Vision 8 ( https://pixelvision8.github.io/PixelVision8Website/ ) (Another fantasy console)
    comment by jamesgeck0 · 2021-02-10 · in Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem
  9. …https://liko-12.github.io/ (lua, open source, I haven't used this much, but it seems nice) https://github.com/ftsf/nico (nim, open source. Not quite the same as the others, there's no IDE, etc. But it's a library with an API similar to…
    comment by badjeans · 2020-11-09 · in A Pico-8 story: How the fantasy console unlocked Frédéric Souchu’s dreams
  10. I quite like nico: https://github.com/ftsf/nico It's got similar functions to PICO-8, but instead of lua you write it in Nim, and instead of an integrated editor, you use whatever editor you want. Perhaps most of all though, the author…
    comment by badjeans · 2020-10-27 · in Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
  11. I also using it for game programming :) A good game framework in Nim is https://github.com/ftsf/nico Also for linear algebra and machine learning they're a couple of good libraries: 1) Arraymancer https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer 2)…
    comment by planetis · 2020-08-16 · in Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language