Interested in converting one of your pico-8 carts to Godot / C#

[JohnAD]

I've been working on various compilers/parsers/language (Nim, C# libs, Rust, Lua, etc.) And, I've been playing with Godot and pico-8 gaming frameworks.

I'd like to try something interesting. I'd like the challenge of refactoring/rewriting a pico-8/Lua cart into Godot / C#. (Or GDScript, though the challenge of moving it to a compiled language has it's appeal.)

Ideally it would be a game that I didn't write so that I'm not tempted to cheat by writing "easy-to-translate" Lua code.

Then, publish the game on Android and Steam so that others can play without cost or Ads. (honoring the CC4-BY-NC-SA). I would also publish the new source code on GitHub under the same license.

Would you be okay with me converting one of your cartridges? I realize you marked the repo as creative commons, so I don't technically have to ask, but would like to go ahead and ask permission first anyway. I find it is better when everyone is okay with things.

Feel free to choose which cart to try this with. :)

[freds72]

Most of my games are actually remakes, so not sure what starting off a pico8 "port" will bring?
Something like Attack on the Deathstar might be interresting and the code is ok (-ish iirc), though it requires some tooling to read Blender 3d files.

What "look&feel" are you looking at? Similar low rez?

[JohnAD]

My intent is to keep the 128x128 pixel look and feel, the limited mono sound, and everything else to be identical as possible with the exception of needing on-screen controls for the mobile version.

But, now that you point out their remake nature, I wonder if I should picking something else as a starting point...the copyright trolls on Google Play are pretty active; probably not work risking even though these are legit remakes.