Mnemonimov

To me, Mnemonimov is a sandbox in its truest form. Sometimes you build a pretty simplistic castle with simple architecture and a monochrome color palette; other times you eat sand because your skills are about as good as a four-year-old's. There are no tutorials other than a pretty technical manual that assumes you know most of what there is to know. I unfortunately last coded sometime in middle school, if we don't count the Excel formulas at work. It felt like coming to the sandbox without any tools while other kids had a set of specialised shovels and years of national-level sandcastle-building competition. So I started by reading the manual for several days and joining the Discord server to check out which early alpha version of Mnemonimov had Doom programmed in it. The results didn't disappoint. After several weeks I could write simple loops, and work out embed, draw, and some other functions. I came to the calm realisation that I'm not smart enough for advanced ray tracing or specialised maths. But my 60 hours were enough to build a small game with handmade pixel art and basic mechanics. The Discord community is really helpful even though it's still relatively small. I wouldn't recommend it as a window into programming the way I did - it isn't really built for that. I guess it's more for already competent developers who want to experience coding with those limitations and feel like the authors of Donkey Kong, Mario, Pong, and other classic arcade games from decades ago. The game is under active development, so you'll definitely find more than enough things to explore. Good luck!

Great assembly game, 2 weeks tops before someone plays bad apple. (edit: Turns out someone already has at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTawXo4tDCo . ty Snapp_.)

This game brings me back to late nights in 1985 after I first discovered assembly code on the Apple ][e. Playing around in the Monitor program and getting a sprite to jump around on the screen was a moment of glory that remains unmatched still to this day. This game brought back that nostalgia. I'm warming up to the addressing as well. Instead of having implied addressing based on assembler syntax, like LDA ($4000), Y, you just use the ste or lde along with cea instructions. It's very direct and does not hide anything or require memorizing a bunch of assembler syntax. It's perfect for a fantasy console! You can even store a pointer to a pointer! So code like int p = 10, int* foo = &p; int** bar = &foo; :D :D :D. I even started writing my own heap manager so I could implement a linked list - LOL.

beautiful

I don't want to leave a negative review but I don't think this is for me. Simply, I don't like the architecture (MISA) of the system you are programming for in the game or the Assembler. The assembly you are writing is all in one huge file, no macros, no preprocessor, no organization (except for 'bookmarks' as far as I can tell). The examples work and appear to do cool things, I just don't have the energy anymore. Maybe I'm not the target audience for this game, I don't want to suffer like its the 80's because my IDE feels like its from the 80's; I like constraints and retro hardware, I have absolutely zero interest in making games/graphics/rendering and wanted to use it more like a system simulator.

Very peak i dont know how to program in assembly but it is verry cools

Made a C compiler for this game, super fun to make minigames and libraries and small projects using the compiler and then watching them come to life in game