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Having it free reminds me of all the junk projects scratch has due to it being free and In the browser
As a scratch developer myself the newer scratch projects are sort of getting good if you don't believe me than go to gamejolt and download popee and buddies 2 and that is a scratch game but 3d.
Well, most scratch fnaf games so they don't have to make a setting to disable jumpscares they use turbowarp.org to export it to an exe.
but, why they dont just do wath unity do????, but in a diferent way to work with Pico 8
I don’t know what unity does.
Lexaloffle is a two-person company (if I recall correctly) that makes 3 fantasy consoles and a community forum to let people make, share and play games. Pico-8 games can be exported to native programs or HTML exports to play without having to buy anything. I don’t get that people feel entitled to demand even more than that.
PICO-8 games are hobbyist games, virtually no-one makes an income. In other words, it's not a professional and versatile tool like Unity. Unity's business model wouldn't make any sense for PICO-8
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That's extremely difficult to enforce for such a small company, and PICO-8 Games (and fantasy console games in general) are rarely profitable, so it wouldn't be enough to make a living.
If you're looking for an open source/free tool I reccomend TIC-80 (which has a pro version for 10$, though you can go to the github repo and compile the pro version for free, and they even encourage it) or PixelVision8 (although PV8 isn't very simillar to PICO8 or TIC-80 from what i've heard.)
The Unity Business model just doesn't work for this type of tool.
Unity has 5200+ employees and a net worth of 4.8 billion USD
Lexaloffle games has 2 employees and an unknown net worth.
There's an obvious reason why one is free to use, and the other is not. Unity can afford to make their engine free to use for personal use, they have massive contracts with commercial game development studios & make all their income from them. Lexaloffle Games needs money to put food on the table while the 2 of them work on the engine.
no one it's saying that they can't do whatever they want with the engine than they create, we are just asking why??
There is the limited educational version that you can use freely on the web for learning purposes. I bought the main editor since its a fair price and not going to break the bank. Either way, its no big deal.
@lipnox, what did you expect, pico8 is experiments, student work, game jams, and sometimes games made by newbies, and hobbies. (no offence to the pico8 community)
they are NOT like minecraft and games made by a team. it is usually one person, sometimes more than one.
it's your opinion, but... don't be so harsh
im from Latino America, and 15 dolars are somthing like 11.044 in Chile, and depending tge day it's more expensive or minus
No, that’s not the case. Pico-8 reached beta stage only a year ago, and got significant fixes and features more recently: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=38665 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=41544
It’s a game console with built-in tools and export and bbs integration. Well worth the price for people who want to make games or custom consoles, with nice conditions for educators and classrooms. Nobody is forced to buy it or play pico8 games.
then offer the ability to play the game without having the dev tools. I had to buy stuff I don't use so I could play these games on my portable system.
it was to use the emulator on my retro styled handheld system but I paid for it anyways
It's a fair idea. I think most people who are using Pico-8 are there just to play the games. Perhaps $5 for a version that has SPLORE only, no option to edit view source, tiles, mapper, SFX, or music. No editor at all actually.
