Resources
This page contains a collection of resources you can use to further your journey with PICO-8.
Nerdy Teachers Tutorials
This is a collection of very well done tutorials that walk you through a variety of different PICO-8 related topics. It includes small games to make, game elements, game mechanics, details on specific functions, and an excellent platformer tutorial.
Micro Platformer
Here is a simple platforming engine in 100 lines of code.
The same author released a follow up, more advanced successor to this called the Advanced Micro Platformer.
A PICO-8 Spaceshooter in 16 GIFs
This is a fun way to demonstrate how quickly a game can be developed in PICO-8. In just 16 animated images, the author is able to create a fully functioning space shooter!
Game Development with PICO-8
A 72-page zine about doing game development with PICO-8.
PicoZines
This is a collection of freely downloadable magazines about PICO-8 programming.
The PICO-8 Educational Toolset
A collection of self-contained examples that demonstrate a single technique. By combining the techniques you have all you need to create a variety of games.
This toolset was created by Dylan Bennett. He is the author of the Adventure Game Tutorial content on this site.
Demo-Man Tutorials
This is a series of tutorials implemented in a bunch of slides, but with the interactive elements of each slide in a PICO-8 web hosted cart! Check them out! Topics range from PICO-8 specifics to math, animation, and collision detection.
PICO-8 Music Tutorials
55 videos on Youtube by Gruber. These walk you through the sound and music editors. He also has a variety of remakes of popular songs elsewhere in his channel that are worth checking out.
PICO-8 Roguelike Tutorial
A roguelike is a dungeon crawler game with permament death (you lose your progress when you die). This is a well regarded video tutorial (in 54 parts!) by Laze Devs.
PICO-8 Breakout Tutorial
Another video tutorial by Lazy Devs. This one has 78 parts!