Generated stand-in image. Not a photograph of the real build.
Software
Orbit
A PICO-8 game where you never thrust: you tether to a planet, swing around it, and let go at the right moment. Then I wrote the browser runtime it plays in, the cart's real Lua against a PICO-8 API I implemented by hand.
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Spec
| Lane | Software |
|---|---|
| Status | In progress |
| Timeline | 31 August 2026 |
| Commits | 3 |
| Game | orbit.p8, 1,491 lines of Lua, 8 levels, black holes and a limited shield |
| Runtime | 1,689 lines across engine, runtime, host and build |
| Approach | Cart Lua through fengari, hand written PICO-8 API, 128x128 indexed framebuffer |
| Output | One self contained HTML file, no server and no install |
24PICO-8 API functions rebuilt