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raytopia 399 days ago | parent | on: AYANEO are working on a dual-screen handheld like ...
Super excited to see another dual screen handheld. I get why Nintendo left its dual screen handehelds behind but I still wish they didn't. There's so much cool design that came out of developers having access to two screens.
- undefined 399 days ago
  Is this a new console that's going to get new dual screen games? From the article it looks like it's just an emulation machine for ds
  Edit: which seems a little wild considering how cheap and easily the DS and 3DS can already play backups
  - raytopia 399 days ago
    It's just an emulation machine but maybe someone might mess around with making some software for it.
raytopia 399 days ago | parent | on: Panda3D one of the oldest game engines
Panda3D is a game engine originally created back in 1994 for several rides at Disney. It would later be used for their mmos and then open sourced where it's stil maintained to this day. You can use C++ or Python (it had smalltalk bindings at one point) and it's a lot of fun to use.
https://discourse.panda3d.org/t/panda3d-history/4398/3
raytopia 399 days ago | parent | on: Game dev SDK for the Panic Playdate handheld
The SDK is pretty nice to use and there's a very helpful community surrounding it.
raytopia 402 days ago | parent | on: Playdate - a handheld console with a crank
The sdk is a lot of fun to use and they also have a engine called pulp which is made for simple games.
- undefined 401 days ago
  I've been wanting to dig into their SDK since the handheld first came out. I really need to put aside the time to do it because I've been really itching to make a game for it lately.
raytopia 402 days ago | parent | on: Developing a 2D Isometric City Builder like its 19...
Metropolis 1998 looks awesome! I'll have to put it on my wish list.
Talking about late 90s early 2000s I'm hoping at some point prerendered backgrounds come back just like prerendered sprites. Some fixed function graphics programming would be fun too.
- Yesbox 401 days ago
  Thanks!