The joys of PICO-8 token crunching!! Or: what I learned...
summary
Concrete constraints drive every choice: PICO-8 enforces 8,192 tokens, a 128-sprite sheet and 64 sounds, so the talk shows specific hacks — mirror a symmetric cat to halve sprite use, change a polka-dot hat to stripes, and accept a forced purr-before-meow to save two tokens — and the result is a birthday snake that fits only after those trades. It frames token counts as a currency and demonstrates actual code and asset swaps that do and don’t work.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:25About Me
- 1:09Features
- 2:58Cutting-Edge Graphics
- 3:36Chiptune Editor
- 4:30Adding a Birthday Snake
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