rotfuchs-von-vulpes/tic80

This repository is a collection of small games written in Lua for TIC-80, a platform often described as a "fantasy console", a simulated, retro-style environment that deliberately limits screen size, color palette, and sound, recreating the feel of developing for old systems like the Game Boy or NES, but running on modern hardware. At a high level, each game in the project is a Lua script designed to run inside the TIC-80 environment. The creator writes the game logic, graphics, and audio using the built-in tools the platform provides, and the code lives here as a set of organized files. Anyone with the TIC-80 application (which is free and open source) can load these scripts and play the games or study how they were made. This would appeal to hobbyist game developers, people learning to code, or anyone curious about how retro-style games are built from scratch. For example, a beginner could download one of these games, open it in TIC-80, and see exactly how a simple platformer or puzzle is structured, the movement, the collision, the score-keeping, all in a single readable script. It's a hands-on way to learn game development without the complexity of a full modern engine. The README doesn't go into detail about individual games, their controls, or what each one is about, so you'd need to explore the files directly to see what's included. The project stands as a straightforward, practical example of what solo, retro-inspired game development looks like.