> if there were a book about it i would totally buy and read that Except if the book wasn't open source then it "suck all the excitement out of things? Do you

> if there were a book about it i would totally buy and read that Except if the book wasn't open source then it "suck all the excitement out of things? Do you refuse to play all games that aren't open source? Don't watch movies unless they are open source? There isn't much to Pico-8 in terms of runtime. The LUA you write is yours and I'm confident if you really wanted to use it somewhere else it wouldn't take more then a few days to repo the features. There just isn't that much there. A few draw commands, some input, and audio functions. What's to lose? The entire package, loaders, editors, exporters, etc is a lot of work but you're no losing anything by writing games in it.