PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE. - r/pico8 / Showcase / online

by zep mastodon / twitter

see also

• Keyconfig - Opens the interactive key configuration tool.
• folder - open pico8 folder

Featured Cartridges

• Home
• PICO-8 Recomendations Thread
• itch.io - top games
• a nice collection (2021)
• Pico Playtime: Best of 2022
  • Downstream Dream by Ridgekuhn
  • Witchcraft TD by Unikotoast
• Top Game made with PICO-8
  • UFO Swamp odyssey - Your UFO has been knocked out of the sky by scavengers and you’re now trapped in their swampy junk yard. / Paranoid Cactus - poom - doom
  • Dank Tomb - Delve down into the dimly lit corridors of Dank Tomb and see if you can solve all its puzzles / Jakub Wasilewski
  • Zepton - a 2d voxel shmup
  • Low Mem Sky: L A S T / Paul Nicholas (Liquidream)
• Masters of the Universe
• Terra Australis
• Elite Velocity v1.0
• Solais (LD46 Compo)
• Picokaiju - You are one big monster with a thirst for destruction.
• To a Starling - platform

• Wolfenstein 3D

• Hellgineers - good music!

• Johan Peitz
  • Ascent
  • Polar-panic

IDE

see Using VS Code with PICO-8

Emulator

• fake-08 - A Pico 8 player for homebrew consoles.
• tac08 - takes a .p8 (text format) Pico-8 cart file and runs it closely as possible to the real Pico-8 software.

Harware for virtual console

• Pico-8 on Retro Handhelds (RG351P/M/V, GameForce, RGB10 Max, and more)
  • rgb-30
  • Guide: Pico-8 on Retro Handheld Devices
  • anbernic
• Pico Pico - Project to attempt to create hardware for the Pico-8.

an idealized constrained modern day game maker - [HN]

Specifications

Display: 128x128, fixed 16 colour palette Input: 6-button controllers Carts: 32k data encoded as png files Sound: 4 channel, 64 definable chip blerps Code: P8 Lua (max 8192 tokens of code) CPU: 4M vm insts/sec Sprites: Single bank of 128 8x8 sprites (+128 shared) Map: 128 x 32 Tilemap (+ 128 x 32 shared)

see also

• pico-view
• Picotron Playground - The Future of Pico-8 ?
• TIC-80 - a free and open source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
• Runty8 - A Pico8 clone in Rust.
• retro8 - open source reimplementation of PICO-8