Contents / Tutorials

• Lazy Devs Breakout - step-by-step videos for roguelikes, shmups, and more

Contents / Libraries

• pico8-physics (⭐52) - Pico8 implementation of Box2d with 8 demos.

• SCUMM-8 (⭐352) - De-make of the SCUMM engine for making point-and-click classic adventures.

Contents / Text Editors Language Support

• Visual Studio Code / NeoVim / JetBrains / Others： pico8-definitions (⭐32) - An add-on for sumneko/lua to provide PICO-8 language support.

Contents / Clones

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

Contents / Libraries

• p8-canvas (⭐7) - A high performance infinite canvas/texture library.

Contents / Clones

• Pikuseru (⭐114) - Open Source Fantasy Console in pure Rust [Core].

Contents / Libraries

• parens-8 (⭐41) - Bypass the Lua token limit with a tiny lisp interpreter/compiler.

Contents / Tools

• Sprite Editor - Keyboard only 8x8 pixel art tool.

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)

Contents / Assets

• midilib - Custom SFX instruments

Contents / Tools

• Shrinko8 (⭐150) - A minifier that aggressively shrinks Pico-8 code size. Also includes a linter and other tools.

Contents / Tools

• TS-PICO-8 (⭐44) - Create PICO-8 games using TypeScript.

Contents / Text Editors Language Support

• Visual Studio Code: pico8-ls (⭐106) - PICO-8 Language Server, providing full language support for the PICO-8 dialect of Lua.

Contents / Clones

• PicoLove (⭐869) - Pico-8 Reimplementation in LÖVE.

Contents / Tools

• yap8b (⭐2) - Build tool for creating pico carts from multiple source files.

Contents / Tools

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

Contents / Tools

• pico8-deploy (⭐34) - An easy way to export and deploy PICO-8 projects to itch.io

Contents / Community

• Pico-8 Wiki

Contents / DemoScene

• Pico-8 demos on Pouet

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.

Contents / Tools

• PICO-8 font - by RhythmLynx.

Contents / Text Editors Language Support

• Emacs: pico8-mode (⭐33)

Contents / Community

• #pico8 on Twitter

Contents / Clones

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

Contents / Resources

• Cheat Sheet (printable) - A reduced cheat sheet in a printable format. German and English version available.

Contents / Tutorials

• Binary save system - Custom game save system that supports various data types

Contents / DemoScene

• Pico-8 demos on Demozoo

• Article with demoscene effects code

• Pico-8 demos on Youtube

Contents / Tutorials

• Newgrounds Medals Tutorial (⭐16) - a little tutorial to add Newgrounds Medals to PICO-8 games.

Contents / Tutorials

• A PICO-8 Spaceshooter in 16 GIFs - Screencaptures of writing a Spaceshooter game step by step.

• Token optimization (⭐154) - tips&tricks for saving tokens.

Contents / Tools

• picoDeploy (⭐233) - 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

Contents / Community

• #pico8 on Freenode

Contents / Resources

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

• 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 (⭐190) for how to run PICO-8 on the GameShell.

Contents / Articles & Posts

• Indie Retro News - A great introduction to PICO-8 by @ABrugsch.

Contents / Tools

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

Contents / Tools

• midi2pico (⭐70) - A MIDI to PICO-8 converter.

Contents / Tools

• MIDI to PICO-8 (⭐66) - A tool to convert MIDI files to PICO-8 music.

Contents / Tools

• PICO-EC (⭐58) - A tiny scene-entity-component library created for the PICO-8 fantasty console.

• p8 (⭐50) - 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.

Contents / Libraries

• PICO-Tween (⭐92) - A small library of tweening/easing functions for use in the PICO-8 fantasy console, inspired by Robert Penner's easing functions.

Contents / Talks

• Sharing the love - Making games with PICO-8. linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia

Contents / Tools

• pico8Grunt (⭐14) - A build system for pico8 games, using gruntjs.

Contents / Libraries

• Pico-Kit (⭐88) - An opinionated collection of Pico-8 helpers that make it easier to get going. Adds OOP, better debugging, and physics.

Contents / Clones

• LIKO-12 (⭐1.2k) - An open source fantasy computer made using LÖVE with 96kb RAM.

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.

Contents / Tools

• p8dl - Carts Downloader - Python (⭐13) - Downloads cartridges into the correct folder (looks at your config.txt).

• Pico-8 Carts Downloader - Bash (⭐22) - Downloads cartridge from the BBS (single cart, whole index or dump your favourited entries) & rename them according to their metadata.

Contents / Programming Fonts

• Linux: copy the files on ~/.fonts and sudo fc-cache -f -v

• Windows: copy the files on c:/windows/fonts/

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...).

• Vim: vim-pico8-syntax (⭐65)

Contents / Tools

• P8Coder (⭐109) - A programming tool that replaces the lua code in pico-8 cartridges (p8) with the code you write in P8Coder.

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.

Contents / Libraries

• pico-test (⭐45) - PICO-8 testing framework.

• Lib-Pico8 (⭐194) - A Pico-8 library of useful common functions.

• pico8-missing-builtins (⭐29) - Provides Lua built-in functions to pico8.

Contents / Hacks - undocumented PICO-8 features

• p8keyboard.js (⭐22) - Javascript "keyboard adapter" for the Pico-8. Send ASCII characters to a Pico-8 program running in a browser.

Contents / Tools

• p8 responsive webplayer transform (⭐18) - Python script that makes your HTML export page responsive.

Contents / Tools

• pico2png (⭐28) - Spritesheet extraction written in perl.

• Pico8Utils (⭐55) - Compilation of lua scripts based on the unix philosophy for working with .p8 files.

Contents / Tools

• picotool (⭐397) - Tools and Python libraries for manipulating Pico-8 game files.

Contents / Community

• Subreddit

Contents / Community

• Lexaloffle
  • Blog
  • PICO-8
  • Forum/BBS
  • Twitter
  • BlueSky
  • Mastodon
  • Facebook
  • Youtube

• Pico-8 Console News

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.