Retro Gadgets is a gadget development platform that allows you to invent, build, sell, code, and customise your own electronics. According to Bologna-based designer Marco Bancale, check out the trailer below, and avoid burning yourself with any soldering irons.
You may share any gadgets you have made with other players via Steam Workshop, but first youve got to make them out of whatever bits and pieces you like. Rummage around in the drawers provided to find circuit boards, joysticks, buttons, and other stuff people with their own soldering irons keep laying around. You may download it and pull it apart to reverse-engineer your own version, according to Evil Licorice.
If you have any coding needs, you can indulge yourself that way. Retro Gadgets has a fully-documented Lua environment. That means you can create and program consoles, weather stations, and calculators, as well as the latest version of Simon. Havent seen one of those in yonks. This would all be a great transform except for the possibility to export your gadget to your desktop. So you can finally have some virtual gadgets sitting around on your digital desk.
Something about Retro Gadgets reminds me of Zachtronics, which is fairly unanswered. It appears to be a sort of thing I would be entirely unconcerned at, but more capable individuals might do lucrative things with. I rewatched the trailer a few times to see how many gadgets there were, and was amazed by how much it appears to be for you to do. I particularly enjoy the option to embellish your hand-crafted electronics with totally tubular flame decorations.
Retro Gadgets is available on Steam in early access later this year. It''s also getting a demo in the next weeks Steam Next Fest. Im likely to use it to build a Tamagotchi.
