<story><title>Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System</title><url>https://play.date/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bullfightonmars</author><text>It would be so awesome if this worked with Pico 8 or a similar fantasy console. I will be much more interested if the barrier to entry for making my own games is as close to zero as possible.&lt;p&gt;I want to make my own games for fun, but also to expose my son to the creativity and exploration of programming.&lt;p&gt;A physical console would make this experience so much more real.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lexaloffle.com&amp;#x2F;pico-8.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lexaloffle.com&amp;#x2F;pico-8.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darzu</author><text>Have you seen &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arcade.makecode.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arcade.makecode.com&lt;/a&gt; ?
It&amp;#x27;s a free, open source, web-based editor for making games, and you can download games to a number of hardware boards, or play on your phone or any web browser. The cheapest hardware right now is $25 from Adafruit [0], but more hardware is coming out all the time.&lt;p&gt;Also this audience might be interested to know that soon there&amp;#x27;ll be Python support in MakeCode. More details on our language toolchain here [1]&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I work for MakeCode :)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.adafruit.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;3939&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.adafruit.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;3939&lt;/a&gt;
[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;makecode.com&amp;#x2F;language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;makecode.com&amp;#x2F;language&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System</title><url>https://play.date/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bullfightonmars</author><text>It would be so awesome if this worked with Pico 8 or a similar fantasy console. I will be much more interested if the barrier to entry for making my own games is as close to zero as possible.&lt;p&gt;I want to make my own games for fun, but also to expose my son to the creativity and exploration of programming.&lt;p&gt;A physical console would make this experience so much more real.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lexaloffle.com&amp;#x2F;pico-8.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lexaloffle.com&amp;#x2F;pico-8.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RodgerTheGreat</author><text>Go on ebay and dig up a PocketCHIP; it&amp;#x27;s as close to a first-class mass-produced physical Pico-8 as anyone is likely to see.</text></comment>