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Feels like we've been getting a lot more fantasy-console-style frameworks/engines lately and I've gotta say I'm all for it. Not sure this one is for me, but love to see it regardless!

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Which one would you prefer? Any favourites? Looking to create simple games/animations that I can embed into a web page without too much hassle.

I like PICO-8. The limitations it has (e.g. 16 colors, 128x128 screen) seem to "offend" some folk though. I have learned to like the limitations.

The fact it has a fixed colour palette as well is fantastic, takes a lot of the guess work out of choosing the perfect colour, also means PICO-8 games have a shared look which is nice.

I'm working on a game at the moment which is inspired by old ZX Spectrum games, so sadly that rules PICO-8 out (different colour palettes), but otherwise those limitations make the whole thing really nice

Right out, the most interesting ones to me are WASM-4, because it seems to be one of the strictest and most minimal, and Pyxel, because it uses Python. Though to be fair I haven't actually tried either of them yet.

If you just want the "best" one (obviously very subjective, but its the easiest answer), try Pico8

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