PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it for the design philosophy behind PICO-8's constraints.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

NYU Game Center

Topic

pico-8 design philosophy

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I'm a huge Pico-8 fan and suggest that anyone that is interested in Pico-8 watch Joseph White's (the creator) Practice (NYU game designer conference) talk about the design philosophy of Pico-8. [VIDEO] . The TLDW of the talk is that he explicitly tried to built …

• All of these are explicit design choices, for example a fixed palette is important to give games a "Pico-8" look and also reduce decisions regarding color choice. I suggest you watch Joseph White's practice talk ( [VIDEO] ) if you're curious about design decisions that …

• I agree that most of the routine software work feels like, umm, filling forms? The way I've made peace with it is to accept that the work that pays the bills is going to be boring. After considering ourselves to be special as software developers …