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Dec 25 - Dec 31, 2023
Contents / Clones
- Pikuseru (⭐36) - Open Source Fantasy Console in pure Rust [Core].
Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2023
Contents / Tools
- parens-8 (⭐10) - Bypass the Lua token limit with a tiny lisp interpreter/compiler.
Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2023
Contents / Tools
- Sprite Editor - Keyboard only 8x8 pixel art tool.
Dec 05 - Dec 11, 2022
Contents / Hardware
- PocketChip - A handheld designed for playing and coding anywhere. Officially supported by pico-8. PoketChip version of pico-8
Contents / Clones
- LowRes NX - Fantasy Console available on IOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, and GameShell (BASIC code support)
Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2022
Contents / Assets
- midilib - Custom SFX instruments
Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022
Contents / Tools
- Shrinko8 (⭐66) - A minifier that aggressively shrinks Pico-8 code size. Also includes a linter and other tools.
Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2022
Contents / Tools
- TS-PICO-8 (⭐34) - Create PICO-8 games using TypeScript.
Contents / Text Editors Language Support
- Visual Studio Code: pico8-ls (⭐51) - PICO-8 Language Server, providing full language support for the PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2021
Contents / Clones
- PicoLove (⭐693) - Pico-8 Reimplementation in LÖVE.
Jun 28 - Jul 04, 2021
Contents / Tools
- yap8b (⭐0) - Build tool for creating pico carts from multiple source files.
Jun 21 - Jun 27, 2021
Contents / Tools
- Denote - Converts MIDI files into SFX data-- interactive and web based.
May 31 - Jun 06, 2021
Contents / Tools
- pico8-deploy (⭐26) - An easy way to export and deploy PICO-8 projects to itch.io
Mar 15 - Mar 21, 2021
Contents / Community
Contents / DemoScene
Contents / Tools
- Depict - Converts image into a dithered image using PICO-8 colors and reduces it to a maximum size of 128 x 128.
- picoCAD - A PICO-8 program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models.
Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2021
Contents / Tools
- PICO-8 font - by RhythmLynx.
Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021
Contents / Text Editors Language Support
- Emacs: pico8-mode (⭐25)
Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020
Contents / Community
Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020
Contents / Clones
- tac08 - tac08 is an emulation of the runtime part of the Pico-8 fantasy console, running on RG350 handheld game console.
Feb 03 - Feb 09, 2020
Contents / Resources
- Cheat Sheet (printable) - A reduced cheat sheet in a printable format. German and English version available.
Sep 09 - Sep 15, 2019
Contents / Tutorials
- Binary save system - Custom game save system that supports various data types
Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2019
Contents / DemoScene
Feb 11 - Feb 17, 2019
Contents / Tutorials
- Newgrounds Medals Tutorial (⭐12) - a little tutorial to add Newgrounds Medals to PICO-8 games.
Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019
Contents / Tutorials
- A PICO-8 Spaceshooter in 16 GIFs - Screencaptures of writing a Spaceshooter game step by step.
- Token optimization (⭐128) - tips&tricks for saving tokens.
Contents / Tools
- picoDeploy (⭐214) - Deploy Pico-8 carts as standalone applications on desktop (Electron) and mobile (Ionic).
- Fillp Tool - A simple helper tool for generating fillp patterns.
Contents / Clones
- TIC-80 by Nesbox - Tiny Computer, available on HTML 5, Windows, Linux 32/64bit, Android & MacOSX
Dec 17 - Dec 23, 2018
Contents / Community
Contents / Resources
- Official Manual - Placeholder dump of pico-8.txt! (Proper manual coming soon).
- Cheat Sheet - by Neko250. Based on the official manual, with edits where found appropriate.
- PicoZine #1, #2, #3 and #4 - PICO-8 Zine is a 48-page fanzine made by and for PICO-8 users.
Contents / Tutorials
- Tweetjam, BBS thread - cards which code fits in a tweet (really useful to learn some fun techniques).
- Sample code on the BBS - the search is not 100% accurate, but some of those cards features some nice tricks you can re-use in your future code.
Contents / Tools
- Color Palette - Hex and RGB colors codes for web.
Contents / Hacks - undocumented PICO-8 features
- Mouse - How to retrieve mouse coordinates (with demo).
- SFX Modifications - Four effects that can only be applied by modifying memory (with demo).
- Tracker State/Audio Memory Locations - How to access and modify audio data as it is playing.
Contents / Hardware
- GameShell - A modular handheld game console that allows you to play & modify retro games and DIY new devices. Check the GameShell Docs (⭐182) for how to run PICO-8 on the GameShell.
Contents / Articles & Posts
- Indie Retro News - A great introduction to PICO-8 by @ABrugsch.
Oct 08 - Oct 14, 2018
Contents / Tools
- Custom template - A simple and clean template, that fixes issues with fullscreen, mouse and just looks nice.
Aug 06 - Aug 12, 2018
Contents / Tools
- midi2pico (⭐64) - A MIDI to PICO-8 converter.
May 07 - May 13, 2018
Contents / Tools
- MIDI to PICO-8 (⭐60) - A tool to convert MIDI files to PICO-8 music.
Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018
Contents / Tools
- PICO-EC (⭐47) - A tiny scene-entity-component library created for the PICO-8 fantasty console.
- PICO-Tween (⭐73) - A small library of tweening/easing functions for use in the PICO-8 fantasy console, inspired by Robert Penner's easing functions.
- p8 (⭐44) - 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.
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018
Contents / Talks
- Sharing the love - Making games with PICO-8. linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018
Contents / Tools
- Pico-Kit (⭐69) - An opinionated collection of Pico-8 helpers that make it easier to get going. Adds OOP, better debugging, and physics.
- pico8Grunt (⭐12) - A build system for pico8 games, using gruntjs.
May 29 - Jun 04, 2017
Contents / Clones
- LIKO-12 (⭐1.1k) - An open source fantasy computer made using LÖVE with 96kb RAM.
May 22 - May 28, 2017
Contents / Community
- Discord Server - PICO-8 Discord chat.
Contents / Resources
- Cheat Sheet (wallpaper) - An enhancement of the printable cheat sheet for use as a desktop wallpaper.
Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2017
Contents / Tools
- p8dl - Carts Downloader - Python (⭐9) - Downloads cartridges into the correct folder (looks at your config.txt).
- Pico-8 Carts Downloader - Bash (⭐17) - Downloads cartridge from the BBS (single cart, whole index or dump your favourited entries) & rename them according to their metadata.
Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2017
Contents / Programming Fonts
- Linux: copy the files on ~/.fonts and
sudo fc-cache -f -v
- Windows: copy the files on c:/windows/fonts/
Mar 06 - Mar 12, 2017
Contents / Text Editors Language Support
- Atom: language-pico8
- Sublime: Sublime PICO-8 - PICO-8 plugin for the Sublime Text editor (color scheme, font, build system, code completion, snippets...).
Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2016
Contents / Tools
- P8Coder (⭐94) - A programming tool that replaces the lua code in pico-8 cartridges (p8) with the code you write in P8Coder.
Jun 27 - Jul 03, 2016
Contents / Community
- Slack Team - PICO-8 Slack chat.
Contents / Tutorials
- Music Tracker Tutorial Series - Making audio with PICO-8.
- Tron Lightcycle game from scratch - A quick introduction to PICO-8 writing a game from scratch.
Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2016
Contents / Tools
- pico-test (⭐38) - PICO-8 testing framework.
- Lib-Pico8 (⭐168) - A Pico-8 library of useful common functions.
- pico8-missing-builtins (⭐21) - Provides Lua built-in functions to pico8.
Contents / Hacks - undocumented PICO-8 features
- p8keyboard.js (⭐19) - Javascript "keyboard adapter" for the Pico-8. Send ASCII characters to a Pico-8 program running in a browser.
Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2016
Contents / Tools
- p8 responsive webplayer transform (⭐14) - Python script that makes your HTML export page responsive.
Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2015
Contents / Tools
- pico2png (⭐22) - Spritesheet extraction written in perl.
- Pico8Utils (⭐51) - Compilation of lua scripts based on the unix philosophy for working with .p8 files.
Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2015
Contents / Tools
- picotool (⭐353) - Tools and Python libraries for manipulating Pico-8 game files.
Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2015
Contents / Community
Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2015
Contents / Community
Contents / Resources
- Going from Lua 5.2 to PICO-8's Lua - This document is here to help folks with a proficiency in Lua understand the limitations and discrepencies between Lua and PICO-8's Lua.
Contents / Tools
- Spritesheets and tools for the PICO-8 Palette - Compilation of works assest and tools using the PICO-8 palette.