awesome-PICO-8

PICO-8 Slack chat

PICO-8 Discord chat

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

, , and - 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

Token optimization

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

Newgrounds Medals Tutorial

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

Custom game save system that supports various data types

Keyboard only 8x8 pixel art tool

pico2png

Spritesheet extraction written in perl

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

Pico8Utils

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

picotool

Tools and Python libraries for manipulating Pico-8 game files

p8dl - Carts Downloader - Python

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

Pico-8 Carts Downloader - Bash

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

p8 responsive webplayer transform

Python script that makes your HTML export page responsive

Hex and RGB colors codes for web

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pico-test

PICO-8 testing framework

Lib-Pico8

A Pico-8 library of useful common functions

pico8-missing-builtins

Provides Lua built-in functions to pico8

P8Coder

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

Pico-Kit

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

picoDeploy

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

pico8Grunt

A build system for pico8 games, using gruntjs

PICO-EC

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

PICO-Tween

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

p8

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

MIDI to PICO-8

A tool to convert MIDI files to PICO-8 music

midi2pico

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

pico8-deploy

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

yap8b

Build tool for creating pico carts from multiple source files

TS-PICO-8

Create PICO-8 games using TypeScript

Shrinko8

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

parens-8

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

Custom SFX instruments

pico8-ls

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

Atom:

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

vim-pico8-syntax

Vim:

pico8-mode

Emacs:

How to retrieve mouse coordinates (with demo)

p8keyboard.js

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 for how to run PICO-8 on the GameShell

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

A great introduction to PICO-8 by

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

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

PicoLove

Pico-8 Reimplementation in LÖVE

LIKO-12

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

Pikuseru

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)