I'm proud and honored to have been interviewed in Retro Gamer issue #268 about being a PICO-8 gamedev. Big thanks Andrew Fisher who runs the homebrew section at Retro Gamer for the opportunity to share a little bit of my story. The issue is the one with the Mega Drive on the cover and it just hit shelves here in the US in March (last month in the UK). Barnes & Noble stores carry it but you can also get a subscription online - highly recommended.
It's only 4 paragraphs and few screenshots but it's still neat to see yourself a video game magazine...long time reader, first time featured :) I'm not sure if my story or games deserve such a spotlight but I'll take the 15 minutes of nerd fame. And anything to shine some more light on PICO8 is always part of the mission as well...according to the article, I'm an "advocate" lol
And I know it's not the Oscars or anything but I need to thank everyone here on the forum that has shared their brains, snippets, ideas, and feedback as I've been using P8 over the last 9 years. But also would like to shoutout a few that really helped educate and motivate me from the start: @Liquidream @pahammond @enargy @MBoffin @mhughson @freds72 @Felice @dw817 @zep - and many more that I'm surely forgetting.
Here's where I started making games...
...and now more than 30 years later I can show my parents all that time wasn't completely wasted. Look ma, I'm in a magazine!
Oh, this is awesome, congrats! Love seeing Invader Overload featured, that is still a PICO-8 favorite for me :)
You're very welcome Brian - glad I was able to be of any help along the way.
Was pleased to see your name appear when I opened the issue, so was very happy to share the news. Glad to see you getting recognition you deserve.
As Freds72 says ...keep up the great work 🤓👍
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