PICO-8 Easier development with Visual Studio - imogiagames /

see also

• Using VS Code with PICO-8
• Getting Started with Local Development for Pico-8 and VS Code
• Pico-8 and external IDE

Using VS Code with PICO-8

As well as other Using External Tools

put all of your code in a separate file and using #include you can use individual tabs from carts by going #include cartname.p8:2 which would include any code on the second tab inside the cart.

• use info to have token count

Alternative way of doing things:

• Using VS Code with PICO-8 - edit cart directly ?

Extension

• PICO-8 Language Server
  • Full language support for the PICO-8 dialect of Lua. - (goto definion, etc)
  • View docs on hover, then auto-complete
• pico8-simple-outline - for *.p8 files: display a list of all the functions in your project, and acces their definition by clicking on them.

Alternative

• pico8vscodeeditor - facilities for editing Pico-8 p8 files in VSCode.
  • Pico-8 API snippets - (Ctrl+Space)
• pico8-vscode - editing and running pico8 files.

Doc

• Pico-8 API Cheatsheet

• compiler
• Picotool - a suite of tools and a Python library for manipulating PICO-8 cartridges.
• decoding Pico-8 cartridges
• pico8-imgtools
• P8Coder (windows) / github - pico-8 programming tool