The Builders Language: a Cartridge

Play with Pico-8 or at https://titleduntitled.name/facades/builderlang.html. Wittgensteins first example of a language game is implemented as a Pico-8 cartridge. Pico-8 is a fantasy console for making tiny games, with an 8x8 sprite editor, and room for 35 KB of content. The game puts you in the position of an assistant B, bringing building-stones to a builder A. The builders game passage goes, Let us imagine a language ...The language is meant to serve for communication between a builder A and an assistant B. A is building with building-stones there are blocks, pillars, slabs and beams. B has ...