MotC

Requires Windows or Linux and Visual Studio Code.

MotC is a tool for creating retro games, packaged as a Visual Studio Code extension.

It features:

• A simple C-like language, with automatic garbage collection.
• Full symbolic debugging.
• A 320x240 graphics mode using an index colour palette. (Resolution can be increased if desired.)
• Sound and streaming music playback.
• Keyboard, mouse and gamepad input.
• Exporters for:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Web (with touch screen controller emulation for mobile devices)
• Documentation and examples

MotC is designed to be an easy to pickup environment for creating 2D games. Everything is built-in, there are no extra libraries to download and configure, just install the extension and go. The code compiles quickly in memory to a byte-code format allowing for quick iteration and experimentation, with full symbolic debugger support, so you can see exactly what your code is doing.

See Whiplash Taxi Co + for an example game that was created with MotC.