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What a beautiful creation. People are making more and more exciting projects in Pico-8, the virtual console that this is made in. It is a fully self-contained
by doomlaser 6y ago
What a beautiful creation.
People are making more and more exciting projects in Pico-8, the virtual console that this is made in. It is a fully self-contained environment and provides a great set of constraints that have led to a lot of creativity and ingenuity. It's a bit like the demoscene in that way.
> The Pico-8 program integrates a Lua code editor, sprite and map creation tools, and an audio sound effect and music editor. The program can load games saved locally on a computer, in the form of text or as specially encoded .png images. The interface also supports a splore mode, where games uploaded to the BBS can be previewed and then played in the Pico-8 program. The PocketCHIP miniature computer shipped preloaded with Pico-8.
> Pico-8 games, as well as the program's interface itself, are limited to a 128x128 pixel, 16-color display, and a 4-channel audio output
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8
More games written in Pico-8 on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/tag-pico-8 https://itch.io/games/tag-pico-8 (sorted by popularity)
- abrookewood 6y agoThe fact that someone can create this in Pico-8 just blows my mind.
- Ericson2314 6y agoDo they limit memory and processor?
- mxwsn 6y ago32 kb addressable memory, and 9 MHz cpu https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Memory https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Memory https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/CPU https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/CPU
- simlevesque 6y agoThe Pico-8 is real hardware so it is limited by it's specs.
- mrec 6y agoSource? According to the Wikipedia entry it's a virtual machine designed to mimic a "fantasy video game console".
- abrookewood 6y agoNo, it's a virtual console. You might be thinking of something else. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
- newobj 6y agoI own this: https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/pocket-c-h-i-p-new https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/po... So, it's a virtual console that's sympathetic to physical hardware. Of course this is just a tiny general purpose computer, not some custom PICO8 hardware. But the constraints of the fantasy console means that the creations will work in terms of processing, memory, resolution, input etc on something much weaker than a desktop PC.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoAnother commenter mentioned the memory and CPU limits, but in addition to that, there's a limit to how much code (65536 characters, or 8192 "tokens") you can write and how much assets fit in one 'cart' (sprites, map, sounds, music). Celeste is another famous game, they're using the maximum capacity that fits in a single Pico-8 "cart": https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145 (I think I finished it below 2 minutes once? Definitely below 3. Edit: just over 8 minutes, I've gone rusty, lol)
- vanderZwan 6y agoMaddy released a Celeste 2 for the third anniversary of Celeste a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/MaddyThorson/status/1353852915299962880 https://twitter.com/MaddyThorson/status/1353852915299962880 I guarantee that you'll take longer than eight minutes for this one
- Rendello 6y agoSome of the coolest programs I've seen are PICO-8 "tweet carts" [1], where a graphical demo is squeezed into 280 chars (previously 140) and tweeted as GIFs along with their code. It's amazing what people can do As a side note, most tweetcarts are recorded and posted manually, but two Twitter bots were released (on the same day) to do it automatically if you @ them with the code. One of them was mine, and it's no longer up, but there's still @TweetCartRunner 1. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tweetcart&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tweetcart&src=typed_query 2. https://twitter.com/TweetCartRunner https://twitter.com/TweetCartRunner