A 0-player fish simulator "game" written with PICO-8

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Source code available on GitHub

Acknowledgements

Inspiration drawn from Kirk Bouman's ASCIIQuarium program https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/

Credit for the designs goes to ASCII-artist Joan Stark https://www.oocities.org/spunk1111/indexjava.htm

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interesting... you could have made it smaller with the interne print function, no?

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This actually is using the standard font and print function, it’s just using poke(0x5f2c,3) to set the resolution to 64x64.

I was experimenting with this for the lowrezjam since I liked the idea of ASCII art to make it even lower resolution in a way. Since I didn’t end up submitting it, it would be interesting to come back to this and see what a 128x128 version looks like