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awesome-PICO-8

A curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more
https://github.com/pico-8/awesome-PICO-8

  • Lexaloffle
  • Blog
  • PICO-8
  • Forum/BBS
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • Subreddit
  • #pico8 on Twitter
  • #pico8 on Freenode
  • Pico-8 Console News
  • Pico-8 Wiki
  • Slack Team - PICO-8 Slack chat.
  • Discord Server - PICO-8 Discord chat.
  • Pico-8 demos on Demozoo
  • Pico-8 demos on Pouet
  • Article with demoscene effects code
  • Pico-8 demos on Youtube
  • Official Manual - Placeholder dump of pico-8.txt! (Proper manual coming soon).
  • PicoZine #1 - 8-fanzine-2), [#3](https://sectordub.itch.io/pico-8-fanzine-3) and [#4](https://sectordub.itch.io/-pico-8-zine-4) - PICO-8 Zine is a 48-page fanzine made by and for PICO-8 users.
  • 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.
  • Cheat Sheet (printable) - A reduced cheat sheet in a printable format. German and English version available.
  • Cheat Sheet (wallpaper) - An enhancement of the printable cheat sheet for use as a desktop wallpaper.
  • 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.
  • A PICO-8 Spaceshooter in 16 GIFs - Screencaptures of writing a Spaceshooter game step by step.
  • Token optimization - tips&tricks for saving tokens.
  • 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.
  • Newgrounds Medals Tutorial - a little tutorial to add Newgrounds Medals to PICO-8 games.
  • Binary save system - Custom game save system that supports various data types
  • Sprite Editor - Keyboard only 8x8 pixel art tool.
  • pico2png - Spritesheet extraction written in perl.
  • Spritesheets and tools for the PICO-8 Palette - 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.
  • Color Palette - Hex and RGB colors codes for web.
  • PICO-8 font - by [RhythmLynx](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=11704).
  • 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, `require()` dependencies, and auto-reload carts on save. Works with any external code editor and supports [MoonScript](https://moonscript.org/).
  • MIDI to PICO-8 - A tool to convert MIDI files to PICO-8 music.
  • midi2pico - A MIDI to PICO-8 converter.
  • Denote - Converts MIDI files into SFX data-- interactive and web based.
  • Custom template - A simple and clean template, that fixes issues with fullscreen, mouse and just looks nice.
  • Fillp Tool - A simple helper tool for generating fillp patterns.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • midilib - Custom SFX instruments
  • pico8-ls - PICO-8 Language Server, providing full language support for the PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
  • language-pico8
  • Sublime PICO-8 - PICO-8 plugin for the Sublime Text editor (color scheme, font, build system, code completion, snippets...).
  • vim-pico8-syntax
  • pico8-mode
  • Mouse - 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.
  • 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.
  • GameShell - A modular handheld game console that allows you to play & modify retro games and DIY new devices. Check the [GameShell Docs](https://github.com/clockworkpi/GameShellDocs/wiki/Running-PICO-8-on-the-GameShell) for how to run PICO-8 on the GameShell.
  • PocketChip - A handheld designed for playing and coding anywhere. Officially supported by pico-8. [PoketChip version of pico-8](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=34009)
  • Indie Retro News - A great introduction to PICO-8 by [@ABrugsch](https://twitter.com/ABrugsch).
  • Sharing the love - Making games with PICO-8. linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
  • TIC-80 by Nesbox - 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 - tac08 is an emulation of the runtime part of the Pico-8 fantasy console, running on RG350 handheld game console.
  • LowRes NX - Fantasy Console available on IOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, and GameShell (BASIC code support)
Programming Languages
Lua 11 Python 4 JavaScript 4 HTML 4 TypeScript 3 Shell 1 Rust 1 Emacs Lisp 1 VimL 1 Java 1
Keywords
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