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PICO-8 Slack chat.

PICO-8 Discord chat.

Placeholder dump of pico-8.txt! (Proper manual coming soon).

, #2, #3 and #4 - PICO-8 Zine is a 48-page fanzine made by and for PICO-8 users.

This document is here to help folks with a proficiency in Lua understand the limitations and discrepencies between Lua and PICO-8's Lua.

A reduced cheat sheet in a printable format. German and English version available.

An enhancement of the printable cheat sheet for use as a desktop wallpaper.

Making audio with PICO-8.

A quick introduction to PICO-8 writing a game from scratch.

Screencaptures of writing a Spaceshooter game step by step.

tips&tricks for saving tokens.

cards which code fits in a tweet (really useful to learn some fun techniques).

the search is not 100% accurate, but some of those cards features some nice tricks you can re-use in your future code.

a little tutorial to add Newgrounds Medals to PICO-8 games.

Custom game save system that supports various data types

step-by-step videos for roguelikes, shmups, and more

Keyboard only 8x8 pixel art tool.

Spritesheet extraction written in perl.

Compilation of works assest and tools using the PICO-8 palette.

Compilation of lua scripts based on the unix philosophy for working with .p8 files.

Tools and Python libraries for manipulating Pico-8 game files.

Downloads cartridges into the correct folder (looks at your config.txt).

Downloads cartridge from the BBS (single cart, whole index or dump your favourited entries) & rename them according to their metadata.

Python script that makes your HTML export page responsive.

Hex and RGB colors codes for web.

by RhythmLynx.

A programming tool that replaces the lua code in pico-8 cartridges (p8) with the code you write in P8Coder.

Deploy Pico-8 carts as standalone applications on desktop (Electron) and mobile (Ionic).

A build system for pico8 games, using gruntjs.

A tiny scene-entity-component library created for the PICO-8 fantasty console.

A dependency manager and build tool. Lets you share code/sprites, require() dependencies, and auto-reload carts on save. Works with any external code editor and supports MoonScript.

A tool to convert MIDI files to PICO-8 music.

A MIDI to PICO-8 converter.

Converts MIDI files into SFX data-- interactive and web based.

A simple and clean template, that fixes issues with fullscreen, mouse and just looks nice.

A simple helper tool for generating fillp patterns.

Converts image into a dithered image using PICO-8 colors and reduces it to a maximum size of 128 x 128.

A PICO-8 program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models.

An easy way to export and deploy PICO-8 projects to itch.io

Build tool for creating pico carts from multiple source files.

Create PICO-8 games using TypeScript.

A minifier that aggressively shrinks Pico-8 code size. Also includes a linter and other tools.

PICO-8 testing framework.

A Pico-8 library of useful common functions.

Provides Lua built-in functions to pico8.

An opinionated collection of Pico-8 helpers that make it easier to get going. Adds OOP, better debugging, and physics.

A small library of tweening/easing functions for use in the PICO-8 fantasy console, inspired by Robert Penner's easing functions.

Bypass the Lua token limit with a tiny lisp interpreter/compiler.

A high performance infinite canvas/texture library.

Pico8 implementation of Box2d with 8 demos.

De-make of the SCUMM engine for making point-and-click classic adventures.

Custom SFX instruments

Visual Studio Code: pico8-ls - PICO-8 Language Server, providing full language support for the PICO-8 dialect of Lua.

Atom: language-pico8

Sublime: Sublime PICO-8 - PICO-8 plugin for the Sublime Text editor (color scheme, font, build system, code completion, snippets...).

Vim: vim-pico8-syntax

Emacs: pico8-mode

How to retrieve mouse coordinates (with demo).

Javascript "keyboard adapter" for the Pico-8. Send ASCII characters to a Pico-8 program running in a browser.

Four effects that can only be applied by modifying memory (with demo).

How to access and modify audio data as it is playing.

A modular handheld game console that allows you to play & modify retro games and DIY new devices. Check the GameShell Docs for how to run PICO-8 on the GameShell.

A handheld designed for playing and coding anywhere. Officially supported by pico-8. PoketChip version of pico-8

A great introduction to PICO-8 by @ABrugsch.

Making games with PICO-8. linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia

Tiny Computer, available on HTML 5, Windows, Linux 32/64bit, Android & MacOSX

Pico-8 Reimplementation in LÖVE.

An open source fantasy computer made using LÖVE with 96kb RAM.

Open Source Fantasy Console in pure Rust [Core].

tac08 is an emulation of the runtime part of the Pico-8 fantasy console, running on RG350 handheld game console.

Fantasy Console available on IOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, and GameShell (BASIC code support)

A TypeScript framework for pixel art browser games. Heavily inspired by PICO-8.