ADV: a little fantasy console
🎉 ADV 1.0 is out: online play for up to 4! Windows, Android and the web, all in one game. Watch the trailer · What's new
ADV is a pretend retro games machine with tiny limits that make games fun to make and fun to play:
- a 128 x 128 screen in 24 colors, plus a little green LCD on top that games can draw on too
- 4-channel chip sound with slides, vibrato and arpeggios
- 2 players on one keyboard (or a phone, Game Boy-style), and online play for up to 4: host a game, send the code, play. Same Wi-Fi? No code needed.
- games written in Lua, built from Scratch-style blocks, or made with the game kit: say which sprite is the player, the enemies, the coins and the walls, paint a map, and that's a game. No code needed.
Every cartridge is a picture. A cart is a colorful square that looks a bit like a QR code, with the whole game hidden inside, error correction and all. Share it like any other picture, and anyone can drop it into ADV and play it.
Make a game
Open the Developer Kit in your browser (PC), or download it for Windows. It has editors for code, sprites, maps, sound effects and music. When your game's done, type UPLOAD and the dev kit's modem sends it to adv-carts, where it can go online for everyone to play. See how to submit a cart.
Downloads
ADV for Windows, the Developer Kit for Windows, and ADV for Android are on the releases page. Free.
Link to ADV
Got a website? Here's a button:
<a href="https://ilikehomeassistant.github.io/adv-web/"><img src="https://ilikehomeassistant.github.io/adv-web/adv88x31.png" width="88" height="31" alt="ADV fantasy console" style="image-rendering: pixelated"></a>
Want ADV on your site? ADV Lite is a little handheld of ADV's online games that you can paste into any page.
About this repo
This is the built website. On a PC you get the desk (the console wired to a screen of online carts), and on a phone the handheld. Add ?mode=phone or ?mode=pc to choose.
Made by atomicdude, inspired by PICO-8.
