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PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges
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LanguagesLua
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac, Pi, HTML5
3DNo
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PICO-8
Recommended 4 months ago
Simple and very powerful fantasy console. It's one of the best that you can play with. The community is also very large and can guide you with a lot of projects.
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Very simple programing languagePro
Encourages building simple gamesPro
Perhaps one of the easiest sound editors aroundPro
Share the game in a .png file with other Pico-8 usersPro
Lots of examplesCon
Costs 15$Con
No collision library or other common thingsPro
Music editor is greatPro
You can read the code of any game you playPro
Cool interfacePro
Takes away the pain of having to wire things togetherPro
Easy to get things going very quicklyPICO-8
Recommended 7 months ago
It costs money, yes. But with lifetime upgrades ahead, you couldn't go wrong in any way. Great 'splore' library that's offering something new every day. Incredible documentation, very cool 'cartridge'-like files, amazing console specs, awesome soundtracker onboard, etc, etc. Highly r...
Pro
Encourages building simple gamesPro
Perhaps one of the easiest sound editors aroundPro
Share the game in a .png file with other Pico-8 usersPro
Lots of examplesPro
You can read the code of any game you playPro
Cool interfacePro
Takes away the pain of having to wire things togetherPICO-8
Recommended a year ago
Pro
Very simple programing languagePro
Encourages building simple gamesPro
Perhaps one of the easiest sound editors aroundPro
Share the game in a .png file with other Pico-8 usersPro
Lots of examplesCon
Costs 15$Pro
Music editor is greatPro
You can read the code of any game you playPro
Cool interfaceCon
Memory restrictions could be confusing or frustrating to a beginner