Related. Others?<p><i>Vision of the future: Voxatron's high-priced gamble (2013)</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11189329">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11189329</a> - Feb 2016 (1 comment)<p><i>The Humble Voxatron Debut</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3178802">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3178802</a> - Oct 2011 (39 comments)<p><i>Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2070025">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2070025</a> - Jan 2011 (65 comments)
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!
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.<p><a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php</a>
Is it a game, a console, or collection of games? Because the main page and FAQ say different things.<p>It's probably all of the above; can empathize with pitching something as unconventional as this. But it might make for a stronger presentation if there was a single framing throughout the site.
You're right, it is confusing. I wrote a whole comment and deleted it because I thought I knew what it was.<p>Pico-8 is a fantasy console, and Picotron is a workstation for that console.<p>Voxatron is a (1) fantasy console and (2) a collection of games but also (3) a game with (4) a game named "Voxatron Story" set in the (5) Voxatron Universe (??)<p>I played around with this years ago but I do not know where I purchased it so I can't say more. I remember playing around a bit but I don't remember Voxatron Story or anything else of that matter, only the cartridges.
It started as a game, and grew into a fantasy console.<p>It's by the same person who created pico-8, if you're familiar with that.
I bought the Humble Bundle for this in like 2011, and I played it a bit, but I ended up having a lot more fun with the included Pico-8 that came a bit later.<p>I think primarily I just found it a lot more approachable than anything else.
I love PICO-8 too. There are so many games, and they’re all free to play, with the source code available to explore or modify. Games are also reltively easily published online. Some PICO-8 games are genuine works of art. I’m always impressed by how creative people become when working within tight constraints. I wish I’d had something like this when I was a kid.
I always recommend Pico-8 to like minded folks, sometimes kids.
I think it was 2013, I bought the same Humble Bundle. It's still in Alpha...
Years ago I had hoped Voxatron and voxel-ish games inspired by it would have taken off more. I wonder why it hasn't saturated the indie game scene more.
that website is doing itself no favor. I could read the whole thing and still didn't fully understand what they are selling.
> Voxatron is a fantasy console and collection of games made entirely out of voxels (little colourful cubes, kind of). The Alpha version comes with an arena shooter and action-adventure cartridges as well as powerful design tools to make your own voxelly games.<p>What part of that is hard to understand?
I wonder what came of all the cool voxel engines that were in development by indie devs and teams not long ago..<p>Maybe that space can be revisited with AI assistance now?