About the Game
The Gadget Maker
Feel the exhilaration of building your own eye-popping real-working gadgets. Lose yourself as you build, solder, code, customise, and play with electrifying gadgets at your relaxing workbench. Build video game consoles, weather machines, lightboards, radios, drum machines... any gadget you can think of. What will you come up with next?
Feel the Power
Retro Gadgets gives you the power to invent! Solder circuit boards, add buttons and switches, speakers and lights, connect and code CPUs, audio and video chips, flick the on button and see your gadget come to life. You have the vision, you can build the gadgets!A World of Gadgeteers
Check out gadgets made by people all over the world. Download any gadget, play with it, take it apart, see how it works, build your own version. Is the world ready for your awesome gadget?Cosy Workbench
Tinker, test and lose track of time at your friendly pixel art workbench. Everything feels tactile and satisfying to use. Open drawers to find what you need. Solder and paint. Print and place stickers with tweezers. Connect parts with magnets. Twist knobs, tap buttons, flick switches. Trust us, you've never played anything like this!Unbeatable Components
There is an ever-growing collection of buttons, switches, dials, gauges, lights, LEDs, LCDs, chips, joysticks, speakers, circuit boards, and more. Everything you need to create a lean mean sexy machine. Now, all it needs is a name!Striking Styles
Make your gadgets feel truly personal. Connect boards to make new shapes. Spray components with different colours. Design and use stencils to create unique designs. Draw, print, and apply your own stickers. Or upload a logo for that more professional touch!Be a Software Superstar
You've built your gadget, now it's time to code! Write and debug your own code in our Lua coding environment, or upload it directly to the CPU. Program games, live weather stations, drum machines, cameras, video players, radios... the possibilities are endless.
Gadget Archive
We know what it's like - you're busy spray painting your latest masterpiece, when BOOM, inspiration hits and a new idea flashes into your mind. Well, simply store your gadget in the archive drawer, pull out an old gadget to work on and fix, or start a whole new gadget. Make as many as you want!Untether Your Gadget
Your gadgets don't have to stay in Retro Gadgets, oh no! With the flick of a switch bring your gadgets to your computer desktop!Screenshots
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Hello Gadgeteers!
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A new update is now available, which will bring new some updates and news including:
🔦 New Led module with customizable symbol
📦 The keypad module is now smaller, so it can fit in a single motherboard
💡 The new LedButton has a similar aesthetic to the keypad
🟢 The Power Button to be used on the device border is now smaller, so it doesn't spill in the internal part of the motherboard
🆕 New keypad modules with different sizes: 2x2, 3x3, 3x2 and 4x3
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We can't wait to see your creations including this new components! Don't forget to join our Discord server for a getting exclusive previews on new game content!
Hello Gadgeteers!
We're excited to share with you the new update of Retro Gadgets, available from today.
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In this new version you'll find:
New WiFi Chip function: WebGetAudioStream – stream audio straight from the web!
New property to list all open audio streams
New GIF recorder: when publishing the gadget on the workshop it's now possible to record an animated gif
WiFi Chip can now fetch images too – you can have PixelData as a response
New Video Chip functions: DrawCustomRenderBuffer and RasterCustomRenderBuffer for drawing only parts of a RenderBuffer
Fixed alpha blend in SetPixelBuffer and RasterRenderBuffer
Code editor can now run in fullscreen
Tons of crash fixes and stability improvements
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To celebrate this release and join other incredible games on Ada Lovelace Day, we decided to discount Retro Gadgets with a special 20%!
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But the updates are not over: the issues that were preventing the release of Retro Gadgets Playground have been solved, so we're almost ready to share it with you!
Keep following us on Discord and on social media, so you won't miss the release!
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Introducing the "Retro Gadgets Game Libraries"
You can now quickly import to you gadgets a set of selected libraries to simplify your development adventures!
The first library is the RG Game Library.
[https://docs.retrogadgets.game/libs/01-rg_game.html]
We specifically created this lib to help you build games inside our game!
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RG Game includes tools for:
:art: Sprite motion and animations - so you can learn how to implement simple animations in your projects
:dart: Simple collisions for sprites (circle and box shapes) - that you can check out with the "Debug" button
:gear: Easing library to smooth out your gadgets
But there are more libs for you to use! This update also includes two libraries:
json.lua
[https://github.com/rxi/json.lua]
A lightweight JSON library for Lua
xml2lua
[https://github.com/manoelcampos/xml2lua]
A parser to convert XML to tables and vice versa!
But wait! There is a new module available!
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We added the "side-slider". A special slider module you can solder to the border of your gadgets.
You can use it as a volume input, speed control and much more!
Additional Highlights:
- :tools: The *"Import Library"* feature will enable us to add more libraries in the future.
- :books: In the Tutorial Section of the main menu, you'll find an example gadget showcasing the most common library functionalities.
Now get to Gadgeting!
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In the motherboards drawer you can now select between transparent and opaque plastic for your gadget cases.
Transparent cases can be painted with the airbrush and will maintain their transparency while stickers remain opaque. You can achieve some really cool aesthetics by combining the two effects!
Right now we only have two types of cases, but we have a bunch of ideas to add more if you like this feature.
But that's not all! We also:
- Added a new motherboard shape that acts as a Y junction for 1x1 elements
- Tweaked the art of the multitool port module in a way that is less visible and looks better when using the transparent shells
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when the cell size of the pixel editor was set to 0
Thank you all for your continued support of Retro Gadgets! We will be back soon with another mini update and Story Mode previews!
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In the motherboards drawer you can now select between transparent and opaque plastic for your gadget cases.
Transparent cases can be painted with the airbrush and will maintain their transparency while stickers remain opaque. You can achieve some really cool aesthetics by combining the two effects!
Right now we only have two types of cases, but we have a bunch of ideas to add more if you like this feature.
But that's not all! We also:
- Added a new motherboard shape that acts as a Y junction for 1x1 elements
- Tweaked the art of the multitool port module in a way that is less visible and looks better when using the transparent shells
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when the cell size of the pixel editor was set to 0
Thank you all for your continued support of Retro Gadgets! We will be back soon with another mini update and Story Mode previews!
Hello everyone! We are thrilled to release our first mini-update featuring the rotary encoder mode for our knob components. This is the first of a series of small updates we will be releasing while the big Story Mode patch is in the works (check previous news for info).
With this update, any knob can now be set to have infinite rotation by setting its the hardware parameters. Setting a knob to infinite changes the behavior of the knob by removing the rotation limits of the default version.
We also added the knob.DeltaValue to all knob modules. This property returns the variation of knob.Value since the previous frame.
This update also:
- Fixes a minor code completion bug.
- Solves an issue that prevented CPU event channels to be set to nil.
Have fun with the rotary encoders! See you in a few weeks for another mini-update!
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