Voxatron: A Fantasy Console for Creating Voxel Games
I invite you to explore Voxatron, a unique fantasy console where every game is built from colorful voxels. This platform includes powerful design tools to create your own animations, characters, and worlds. You can play official arena shooters and action adventures, or discover a growing library of user-made cartridges shared via an in-game BBS. It is the perfect sandbox for anyone wanting to build and share their own voxel-based gaming experiences.
Make your own carts or remix other carts with the included set of design tools.
- pull_my_finger
Unfortunately, development is essentially dead afaik. Pico-8, originally just a prototype/development playground for Voxatron, became an instant hit and totally eclipsed Voxatron and now gets all the development hours, now shared with Picotron, which is an even newer product detracting from Voxatron. It's a total shame too, because I'd seen lots of demos of it on volumetric displays[1] which look amazing.
- galleywest200
I recommend the Picotron, their newest fantasy software. It is a full fantasy workstation. It has no upper limit on game size and can export native binaries for the big three OSes. You could, in theory, publish a full game with it.
- jperoutek
I remember playing this probably 10-12 years ago with Minecraft's creator Notch donated a bunch of money to their HumbleBundle campaign. It was pretty early alpha back then, and it seems like the main pivot has been to make it more of a platform for user-created games, rather than a game itself. Interesting!