Music in pico 8 is wild
I am a software engineer, so coding in pico 8 feels really nice, and I get how it all works. Sprite and maps make sense for the basics. I've made individual sfx, and I get how it works.
The tracks tab is wild though.
I can understand how someone coded and made the maps for games like birds with guns and Celeste, even if those things took a long time. Watching the music tracks play in the patterns view is dizzying to me. How do you even begin making music at that level of complexity?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm not saying this software is bad, on the contrary! I'm saying I don't understand how people can make music that complex, also I'm pretty sure I'm mixing up the tracker with some other element (the one where it shows you what sfx are playing at any point in the song?. It's a lot to take in and adds depth to the tool that I didn't know existed. I'm sure I'd be blown away by what a full DAW can do!