Pico-8

[ShadowBadger]

Hey everyone,

Curious if anyone here is a fan of Pico-8? If you haven’t heard of it before, is a “fantasy console,” that never officially existed. It’s actually really cool if you ever were interested in making your own games. The games themselves are saved a PNGs and look like little digital cartridges. You play the games in a browser. The whole thing was made by an Australian developer. Anyway, yeah you should check it out. There’s a lot of really cool, interesting, and experimental games out there for it and more are made everyday. I’d love to hear about any games anyone has played and I might share a few that I like a lot here too. If you haven’t heard of Pico-8, think you’ll try it?

Sincerely,

ShadowBadger

 

[Sorion]

I'm interested in trying pico-8 games since I've got an anbernic console, the RG cube xx, and it's main feature is the 720 by 720 square screen, it turns out pico-8 games run at a square aspect ratio as well so the cube XX is perfect for that platform, what are some of your game recomendations for the platform?

 

[thumbsdown's iconthumbsdown]

We have a general thread about fantasy consoles/computers with some valuable information, but that's all fine if you'd prefer to keep your own thread centered exclusively on the Pico-8 topic I guess! :]

Fantasy Consoles/Fantasy Computers

Decided to start this thread to list some of the PICO-8 alternatives out there, inspired by this profile update. I hope this is going to be useful and/or entertaining for some of yours! :) TIC-80 demo version: https://nesbox.itch.io/tic80 Liko-12 (not maintained)...

retrogametalk.com

 

[Sorion]

We have a general thread about fantasy consoles/computers with some valuable information, but that's all fine if you'd prefer to keep your own thread centered exclusively on the Pico-8 topic I guess! :]

Fantasy Consoles/Fantasy Computers

Decided to start this thread to list some of the PICO-8 alternatives out there, inspired by this profile update. I hope this is going to be useful and/or entertaining for some of yours! :) TIC-80 demo version: https://nesbox.itch.io/tic80 Liko-12 (not maintained)...

retrogametalk.com

I see, thanks for the info!

 

[ShadowBadger]

We have a general thread about fantasy consoles/computers with some valuable information, but that's all fine if you'd prefer to keep your own thread centered exclusively on the Pico-8 topic I guess! :]

Fantasy Consoles/Fantasy Computers

Decided to start this thread to list some of the PICO-8 alternatives out there, inspired by this profile update. I hope this is going to be useful and/or entertaining for some of yours! :) TIC-80 demo version: https://nesbox.itch.io/tic80 Liko-12 (not maintained)...

retrogametalk.com

I looked around the forum before I made my post and didn’t see this. Sorry.

 

[thumbsdown's iconthumbsdown]

No, that's all fine. I guess yours works more for ppl who'd like to introduce themselves to the games too. I'll drop some suggestions later!

 

[aquova]

I adore Pico-8. I got into the scene years ago and it really helped me learn game development. I'm not a great developer on it at all, but I really love seeing the creativity that people have managed on there, highly recommend.

My one frustration is that it's hard to keep up with releases on there lol

 

[-------]

An interesting device.

 

[DuraNext]

I've already tested some pretty cool stuff on the PICO-8 (there are several things available on Itch.io that are actually games for the console). I've also seen some cool stuff on the TIC-80, another fantasy console.

Personally, I recommend Low End, a Guitar Hero-style game. The developer of this game even created button configurations after I commented on his Itch page saying that the original configuration made the game difficult for me.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Love the games honestly.
Usually blow of some steam playing a few games at random.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Heard about them but never tried them.

 

[lestagio]

Yup, I've made a few of my own little things on there just for fun. It's cool as hell!
Little fun fact, Celeste was originally a Pico-8 game that spanned into a huge indie platformer, and I'm super grateful for that. AND, you can actually play said version inside of Celeste!

 

[Julian_L]

I have been lately entering that web site to see if there is something "new" at the main page. It has basically become my replacement to the web sites I used to visit with SWF games I used to randomly choose and play (like anyone else, I guess). I haven't created anything there, but I have my own list of favourite games, although some of them are games I haven't played yet or games I found interesting and didn't want to forget.