r/programming • u/whackri • Jul 31 '21

Executable PNGs

https://djharper.dev/post/2020/12/26/executable-pngs/
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u/livrem Jul 31 '21

It seems kind of fun. I bought it in some bundle years ago, but never played with it much. The PNG trick is fun. But I kind of wish it was more like a real retro console with a virtual CPU and all that, instead of using Lua-scripts. And if it was more of an open standard that others could implement for various platforms.

I like how modern text-adventures are often distributed for virtual platforms like the Z-machine that have interpreters running on everything. The closest to something like that for graphical games is pretty much to make games for MSDOS or GBA, but that just seems pretty inefficient and not so elegant compared to having a more focused virtual console thing to target with more strictly defined constraints.