Pico-8
- p8x8: convert PICO-8 carts into picotron carts (some assembly required)github.com GitHub - pancelor/p8x8: convert PICO-8 carts into picotron carts (some assembly required)
convert PICO-8 carts into picotron carts (some assembly required) - pancelor/p8x8
- Picotron 0.1 released!
First version of a new fantasy console/computer from Lexaloffle is available to purchase now, on sale till the end of the month.
I haven't tried it yet (other than limited messing around with the Picotron playground in the past), but am excited to check it out soon.
From their website, >Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation for making pixelart games, animations, music, demos and other curiosities. It has a toy operating system designed to be a cosy creative space, but runs on top of Windows, MacOS or Linux. Picotron apps can be made with built-in tools, and shared with other users in a special 256k png cartridge format.
Excellent video introduction by Krystian (Lazy Devs) here.
And like PICO-8, you can play anything posted to the BBS in your browser here
- PICO-8 Resources
Short list of resources for PICO-8 development.
Introduction
The PICO-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker (Article)
Official
Carts
Programming
Cheat sheets
Cheat Sheets by LightBWK (Image)
API Cheat Sheet by neko250 (Site)
Lua
Going from Lua 5.2 to PICO-8's Lua
Code examples / libraries
PICO-ATE Altruistic Template Encyclopedia
Video tutorials
Pico-8 Tutorial Crash Course For TOTAL Game Dev Beginners! (SpaceCat)
Making an Advanced Shmup (by Lazy Devs)
Other Lists
Similar projects
--- Please share your favorite/useful links in the comments as well!
- What's your favorite PICO-8 feature?
I enjoy the limited environment, retro-like environment myself. It limits my choices to stay focused on small projects, while providing a fairly robust and modern environment to work in.
