I really want to make a game based on strict limitations but to write it in code and not some graphical editor.
I'm two hours in witu phaserjs and I've just done boilerplate with cameras and scenes. It looks great but it's overkill for me.
Edit: thank you all. So many great leads here.
* LIKO-12.........https://liko-12.github.io/
* PICO-8..........https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
* Pixel Vision 8..https://www.pixelvision8.com/
* TIC-80..........https://tic80.com/
[1]https://dev.to/soorajsnblaze333/how-to-create-a-simple-physi...
[2]https://dev.to/soorajsnblaze333/how-to-create-a-simple-physi...
I did have to pin p5.js to v0.5.4 as apparently p5.play hasn't been updated and didn't play nicely with newer versions of p5.
Or PuzzleScript https://www.puzzlescript.net/
"Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere."
Play some Bitsy games here: https://itch.io/c/90743/bitsy-games
It's got similar functions to PICO-8, but instead of lua you write it in Nim, and instead of an integrated editor, you use whatever editor you want.
Perhaps most of all though, the author also wrote some pretty cool games with it, which are also open source, so it's proven tech and you can learn from them.
I feel like Phaser is interesting as their samples/demos feel very "single page"[1] but can be inverted into something with scenes like you mention. It's often the first thing I reach for if I want to hack something in 2D, but often those hacks become larger things so quickly!
[1] http://labs.phaser.io/edit.html?src=src\tweens\single%20prop...
It's a credit card sized game system which you can program with the Arduino IDE.
However, you will probably enjoy Phaser the most of all listed once you get comfortable around it. It's not that complicated.
But you're probably right. I just like being able to make toy games in a weekend without dealing with the plumbing a lot.
Turtlespaces.org