A good thing about PICO-8 is that it is a complete and closed environment, in that you do not need anything else and there's nothing to be added later on along

A good thing about PICO-8 is that it is a complete and closed environment, in that you do not need anything else and there's nothing to be added later on along the way. It removes a ton of moving parts squarely outside the "I want to make a game from my notes" goal, like "Oh I discovered that Lua lib" or "which text/image/sound editor can I use" or formats or whatnot.