PICO-8 Fantasy Console
Main
Non Official
- awesome-PICO-8: a curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more
- PICO-ATE: altruistic template Encyclopedia
Tech Articles and Videos
- PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White
- Token Optimizations
- Doodle Insights by trasevol
- Clear Code Series by jvscott
- Lighting by Hand Series by Jakub Wasilewski
- How to retrieve mouse coordinates
- Music corruptor
- No Man’s Sky Demake Progress
Tutorials
- PICO-8 Cookbook
- Level 0 Game Developer
- How to Program a Walking Simulator
- Wikia - Playing Games
- Wikia - Multiple States System
- Wikia - Random Tips
- Going from Lua 5.2 to PICO-8’s Lua
- A PICO-8 Spaceshooter in 16 GIFs
- Infinite Limit
Video Tutorials
- doc_robs
- Pico-8 Hero
- PICO-8 Intro and Player Movement Demo
- Tron Lightcycle Game - Pt. 1
- Tron Lightcycle Game - Pt. 2
- How To make Something Juicy
- Delightful Game Development with PICO-8
- PICO-8 Month (Fr)
- Programmer un Jeu (Fr)
Audio
- Pico-8 Music Tutorials by Gruber
- Editing Audio by Matt Tuttle
Tips&Tricks
- Bounces and Sines
- Wikia - Cart Data
- Development Workflow
- Palette Swapping
- Persistent High Score Table
- Ternary Operators
- Simple Animation
- Checking for Overlap
- Maze Algorithm
- Update Frame by Frame
- pico8-table-string
Magazines and Books
- How to Make Games with PICO-8 by tassilo
- GameDev with PICO-8 - Issue 1 by mboffin
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Issue 1
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Issue 1 (Es)
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Issue 1 (Jp)
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Issue 2
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Issue 3
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Issue 4
- PICO-8 Fanzine - Printed
- Game Development with PICO-8
- How to Make Games with PICO-8
Tech Demos
Community
Code Editors
Games and Prototypes
- TRASEVOL_DOG’s Pico-8 Doodles: 45 experimental Pico-8 tiny programs, exploring a variety of effects and simple ideas
- picobox: physics experiments
- PICO-8 Shooter
- Demake Of 8-Bit Game: based on the 1984 game, Booty, by John Cain, for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
- Experiments by zach2good
- Experiments by lvictorino
- Picoverse: concepts and prototype for a simple pico-8 space-exploration game
- pico8collab16: a “game jam” of sorts, to make a pico8 cart with sixteen (16) games in it by multiple developers
- giraffe-pico8
- Porklike
Cheatsheets and Palettes
- PICO-8 Cheatsheet
- PICO-8 API
- Palette by rhythmlynx
- Palette by romanzolotarev
- db-pico
- PICO-8 Styler
- PICO-8 Palette for Pixen
Bootstraps and Boilerplates
- pico8dev: snippets, demo carts and libraries to help make PICO-8 games
- pico8_project_template
- p8: PICO-8 dependency manager
- pico8-boilerplate: ready-made game state system which the stock _init, _update, _draw functions delegate to
Tools
Generic
- PICO-8 (GitHub): a bunch of useful resources
- pico8-to-lua: converts PICO-8 extended Lua syntax to standard Lua syntax
- Animation Editor
- P8Coder: a programming tool that replaces the lua code in pico-8 cartridges (p8) with the code you write in P8Coder.
- pico8utils: a set of utilities made for the .p8 PICO-8 file format
- Lib-Pico8: a library of useful common functions
- pico8-missing-builtins: Lua built-in functions to pico8
- jspicl: a JavaScript to PICO-8 Lua transpiler
- pico8gamepad: adds gamepad support in browser for PICO-8 games
- picotool: tools and Python libraries for manipulating PICO-8 game files
- p8dl: PICO-8 cartridge downloader
- pico-8-carts-bash-downloader: download & automatically rename Pico-8 carts from the Lexaloffle BBS threads
- pico-build: An all-purpose command-line tool for building PICO-8 games. Write your game as multiple lua files, and have them compiled into tabs within your .p8 cart
Graphics
- Tiled2Pico-8 + Sprite Editor
- SpriteSheet Compressor
- pico2png: converts PICO-8 graphics from/to PNG
- vector-paint: a vector drawing program in LÖVE to produce art for PICO-8 carts
- PICO8Tool: PICO-8 art importer/exporter
- pico8png: extract PICO-8’s project graphics to a separate *.png file
- PiCAD: vector Authoring/Display
- Retroart: a tiny pixel-editor
Audio Tools
- midi2pico: Midi to PICO-8 converter
- midi-to-pico8: MIDI to PICO-8 tracker translator
Engines
- scumm-8: a PICO-8 demake of the SCUMM engine that powered most of the classic LucasArts adventure games
- p8advent: An adventure game toolkit for PICO-8
Workshops and Presentations
- pico8-workshop by juanalonso
- Sharing the love: making games with PICO-8
Social
- PICO-8 on Twitter
- @lexaloffle
- @pico8console
- @InfiniteLimitZn
- Lexaloffle on Facebook
- Ludum Dare
- PICO-8 Group on Facebook