Fantasy Console
ファンタジーコンソール / 2015– / Style / Computational Expression
The movement of designing imaginary retro consoles, specifications and all. PICO-8's self-imposed 128x128 and 16 colors reinvented style-through-constraint for the present.
Self-imposed resolution limits / A fixed 16-color palette / The fiction of cartridges / A culture of shared smallness
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- PICO-8 and Voxatron / the original Celeste / the philosophy of designed constraint