John Saba is the developer of Mushroom Mountain, a brand new PICO-8 game. PICO-8 is a fantasy concolse for sharing and playing tiny games and computer programs. Mushroom Mountain is a very clever and deep puzzle game with cute pixel art graphics. You can find Mushroom Mountain within the PICO-8 console, as well as on John's itch.io page. This is John's second time on IGI.
In this episode we will discuss the PICO-8 virtual console, cutting features, developing with intentional constraints, puzzle design, themes applied to puzzle mechanics, attention economies, and more.
John Saba on itch.io: https://itch.io/profile/sabajt
Mushroom Mountain on itch.io: https://sabajt.itch.io/mushroom-mountain
John on Twitter: @sabajt
Check out the PICO-8 fantasy console
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