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1. Rendello ◴[] No.46207774[source]
These demos remind me of TweetCarts, little PICO-8 (Lua) programs designed to fit inside tweets [1]. A bunch were archived on Mastadon [2], and it appears they live on as "Postcarts" on the forum [3].

Since you had to record and upload the GIFs yourself (which to be fair was easy with PICO-8), I spent a month or so writing a Twitter bot to automatically respond to the Lua programs with a GIF of them running [4]. I was extremely proud of my shoddy little bot (that used Python, bash scripts, and a LXD container inside another LXD container, IIRC). Crazy coincidence: I released it just hours before someone else was to release their Twitter bot that did the same thing [5], despite this niche being unfilled for years and neither of us knowing of each other. His was better architected, and we kept in touch for a while.

1. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tweetcart

2. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Pico8TweetCarts

3. https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/superblog.php?mode=gifs&cat=0...

4. https://x.com/auto_tweetcart

5. https://x.com/tweetcartrunner