PICO-8 Fantasy Console

PICO-8 Fantasy Console

<div><p><a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php">PICO-8</a> is perhaps the most popular of the fantasy consoles and if you are extremely quick, you can pick it up as part of the <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/06/06/Itchio-Bundle-For-Racial-Justice-And-Equality.aspx">Itch.io Racial Justice bundle</a> along with a ton of other development tools and indie games.&nbsp; PICO-8 is described as:</p>
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<p>PICO-8 is a <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=faq">fantasy console</a> for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It <i>feels</i> like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called <a>SPLORE</a>.</p>
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<p>It emulates a very limited virtual machine:</p>
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<p><b>Display</b><br />128×128 16 colours</p>
<p><b>Cartridge Size</b><br />32k</p>
<p><b>Sound</b><br />4 channel chip blerps</p>
<p><b>Code</b><br />Lua</p>
<p><b>Sprites</b><br />256 8×8 sprites</p>
<p><b>Map</b><br />128×32 cels</p>
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<p>Additionally PICO-8 has several built in tools including a sprite editor, sound editor, level editor and music editor, as well as tools for publishing and sharing your creations with out.&nbsp; The underlying programming language is Lua and is <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=manual">documented here</a>.&nbsp; You can check out PICO-8 in action in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJxLtyTOOsw">video</a> below.</p>
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