PICO-8 Thought for the Day

I’ve just relesed my second ever cart for the PICO-8 fantasy console. It is called Thought for the Day and displays the current time and Imperial date along with an uplifting proverb from Warhammer 40,000. It was inspired by munitorum.net and, unlike that website, will remember the quote and only spit out one randomised proverb per day.

The calculation of the Imperial date could use some improvement and I might work on that in the future. I will also add some more proverbs at some point. This was basically just a quick programming exercise to blow the rust off my grasp of Lua. If you want to use this little app, here’s the PICO-8 cart image for download:

The app is also on the PICO-8 BBS (which means you can get it from within PICO-8 with the SPLORE command) and its code is hosted on GitHub.