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One downside of PICO-8's closed source is that it can't easily be ported to different architectures by fans, so you're limited to Windows, Linux (x86) and the R

One downside of PICO-8's closed source is that it can't easily be ported to different architectures by fans, so you're limited to Windows, Linux (x86) and the Raspberry Pi (and HTML/JS, but just the player). There's no Android port. TIC-80, on the other hand, runs more places (Android!). And someone has ported it to run on OpenDingux portable handhelds, there's a RetroArch core, etc. That said, PICO-8 is super, super polished and absolutely worth the $15.

mumblemumble 6y ago
Also OS X, it's worth saying.
NoodleIncident 6y ago
In Celeste, there's an easter egg that lets you play the original PICO-8 game on an in-game computer. How was this accomplished, if porting it themselves isn't possible? Did they have to remake the entire game?
- roywiggins 6y ago
  They might have built their own pico-8 runtime/emulator. Alternatively, porting the game to use another Lua runtime (like LÖVE) would probably not be that hard. Ex, here's a pico-8 runtime in LÖVE: https://github.com/picolove/picolove https://github.com/picolove/picolove
  - Wezl 6y ago
    It's a small game, they could port the entire game to another language or platform pretty easily.
- jamesgeck0 6y ago
  Yeah, they remade the whole game with some help from the PICO-8 developer. https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/1032067981600124928 https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/1032067981600124928
neomech 6y ago
There is a pico8 emulator that lets you play games on some handheld console and I understand that an Android version is in development. https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350
kzrdude 6y ago
I paid for Pico. Mostly to play games on rpi, not making them. Being closed source is still a drag since I'm used to being able to patch and adjust the things I use. That I can't is immediately felt. Yeah and the alternatives like tic have pretty major setup problems on rpi.

mumblemumble 6y ago

Also OS X, it's worth saying.

NoodleIncident 6y ago

In Celeste, there's an easter egg that lets you play the original PICO-8 game on an in-game computer. How was this accomplished, if porting it themselves isn't possible? Did they have to remake the entire game?

roywiggins 6y ago
They might have built their own pico-8 runtime/emulator. Alternatively, porting the game to use another Lua runtime (like LÖVE) would probably not be that hard. Ex, here's a pico-8 runtime in LÖVE: https://github.com/picolove/picolove https://github.com/picolove/picolove
- Wezl 6y ago
  It's a small game, they could port the entire game to another language or platform pretty easily.
jamesgeck0 6y ago
Yeah, they remade the whole game with some help from the PICO-8 developer. https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/1032067981600124928 https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/1032067981600124928

neomech 6y ago

There is a pico8 emulator that lets you play games on some handheld console and I understand that an Android version is in development. https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350

kzrdude 6y ago

I paid for Pico. Mostly to play games on rpi, not making them. Being closed source is still a drag since I'm used to being able to patch and adjust the things I use. That I can't is immediately felt. Yeah and the alternatives like tic have pretty major setup problems on rpi.