A curated list of PICO-8 resources, tutorials, tools and more. Inspired by the awesome list thing. You might also like awesome-lua and awesome-love2d.

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 a subset of Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.

• Community
• Resources
• Tutorials
• Tools
• Hacks
• Articles & Posts
• Podcasts
• Contributing
• License

• 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.
  • Alternative Link - Original invite form running at JTE's server.

• Official Manual - Placeholder dump of pico-8.txt! (Proper manual coming soon).
• Cheat Sheet - by Neko250. Based on the official manual, with edits where found appropriate.
• PicoZine #1, #2, #3 and #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.

• 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.

• PicoLove - Pico-8 Reimplementation in LÖVE.
• Sprite Editor - External sprite editor compatible with Pico-8 and PicoLove.
• 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 - Downloads cartridges into the correct folder (looks at your config.txt).
• 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.
• 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.
• Sublime PICO-8 - PICO-8 plugin for the Sublime Text editor (color scheme, font, build system, code completion, snippets...).

• 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.
• Pico-8 Networking - Play multiplayer PICO-8 games over the internet (up to 8 players).

• PocketC.H.I.P - A portable mini-computer, a game console, a portable synthesizer and a Linux field terminal with PICO-8 pre-installed.

• Indie Retro News - A great introduction to PICO-8 by @ABrugsch.
• Clear Code - 3 part series on how to write better pico-8 code.

• pico chat - A bite-sized podcast about Pico-8 and other tiny games.

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