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Can you list some of these other platforms so that I can check them out?

https://tic80.com/ (lua, open source - you can pay for the binaries or build it yourself)

https://liko-12.github.io/ (lua, open source, I haven't used this much, but it seems nice)

https://github.com/ftsf/nico (nim, open source. Not quite the same as the others, there's no IDE, etc. But it's a library with an API similar to PICO)

Nice thing about TIC-80: it has built-in support for Fennel[0], so you can develop games for it in a lisp-like language.

[0] https://fennel-lang.org/

(and Moonscript (coffee-script inspired whitespace-significant Lua variant, https://moonscript.org/), Wren (https://wren.io/), and JavaScript (unfortunately): https://tic80.com/learn §Specification)

Another one in Python. Also cool: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

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