I been toying with a tiny game made with PICO-8. You can play it below.
If you've got PICO-8 installed on a handheld like an Anbernic device, grab the cartridge above and drop it in your carts folder to play it locally.
Few fun facts about it.
- pico8 is a png format that can contain constrained games (up to 65,536 characters, and up to 8,192 tokens). You are capped at how big the game can be and there's an awesome community of folks making mini-games with it.
- You can against an AI in this game. Alpha-zero kinds of algorithms will never fit on the small cartridge so I needed a heuristic. I ended up running an auto-research loop for it but it sort-of failed without a lot of manual steering. Part of the story here is that auto-researh excells when the signal isn't noisy. But game simulations are just that.
You can also download the cartridge if you want to play on your own device locally.
