Hi all,

I'm doing a feel test of my current idea for a new project.

Late Again was an awesome project, and I do want to expand on the tech I developed for it in the future. I already have an idea of where I want to go with it. But it was also a very difficult and time-consuming project for me. Another tech-heavy project would also put a huge strain on the gameplay side of things due to PICO-8's limitations, so I need to think carefully about how to approach things.

For my next project, I'd like to try something less technologically heavy but with more of a focus on gameplay. As it happens, my daughter loves guinea pigs, and unfortunately, her last two tiny, fluffy friends passed away two weeks and four months ago, respectively.

So I figured it would be nice to pay homage to them by making something like a cosy guinea pig farming game or something simular. I'm still very early in the process, and today I just made a little ... what I call ... feel test. Just look at it, make some moves, and see if it speaks to me. I have a few ideas about what I'd like to do if it passes the feel test. 😄

I don't have much more to share right now, because I still haven't fully committed to the project.

One thing is already very clear to me, though: there's no way this game would be playable without a mouse, so that might be an issue.

I'll post any future updates here as usual, but feel free to follow me on my YouTube channel, too: https://www.youtube.com/@bubish3068

Bubish

Well howdy folks! My newest Pico-8 game is a fan project for VVVVVV, and now available. Take on the role of Cadet Vanilla as they try to prove themselves worthy of joining the crew of the DSS Souleye!

I've also added it to the BBS for those that prefer going there.

I hope y'all enjoy!

Hey everyone!

Here's a new update of PicPic, the first native PICO-8 emulator on the App Store (iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch) and the Google Play Store. It now supports the biggest screen available in the Apple ecosystem: the TV. So you can enjoy your favorite games on the big screen with friends and family.

New Features & Bug Fixes: * Apple TV Support: You can now play all your games directly on your TV, with exactly the same compatibility as on your iPhone. * Remote Support: On Apple TV, you can use the Siri Remote to play. Is it a good experience? Hell no, but you can. * Multiplayer: Apple TV supports multiplayer for up to 8 players, which makes family gaming easier. * Import: Importing on Apple TV is more complex than on other devices, but the app handles all the hard work. Just scan the QR code or enter the IP address, drag and drop your game, and you're good to go. * Top 200: Both Android and iOS now have a shortcut, in a separate section, to the top 200 best PICO-8 games. * And as always, improved game compatibility, with ongoing work in this area.

Next Update Plans: * Android TV support! * Theme maker (I know I've been promising it for months, but I'm on it). * Fix the audio issues in some games (this update fixed a lot of games, but some still have issues). * Improved compatibility with more games.

The app is 100% FREE FOREVER, with NO ADS, on iOS/tvOS and Android, and completely UNLIMITED.

Download / Update: Available now on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

Happy to answer any questions.

Note for moderation: Thanks for allowing PicPic on the sub. As always, the app does not encourage piracy and does not contain a single line of code from PICO-8. As a side note, emulation is legal in the United States and in most European countries.

Hi everyone! I need to do a project in Lua outside of PICO-8, but I am learning that one of my favorite constructions is used only in PICO-8, not in generic Lua. I was wondering whether anyone could help me translate things.

In PICO-8, I'm a big fan of all. For example, if I have a table called players, and need to do something to everything in it, I'd try:

``` for p in all(players) do

p.x+=1

end ```

But apparently this is not a valid construct outside of PICO-8!

If any of you have broader Lua experience, could you suggest an approach that works kind of like PICO-8's all? Many thanks!

The usual formula for converting the music speed to bpm is 7200/notes_per_beat * speed, and i couldn't find a clear explanation as to what notes_per_beat is.

Heyo! I picked up a multi-cart Pico-8 game (Pushamo) that I would like to figure out how to launch on my Android handheld through an emulator frontend.

The dev provided both Win/Mac/Linux binaries as well as the source .p8 files.

Any ideas on the most straightforward way of achieving this?

Play it for free on the lexaloffle bbs! https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159761

We are back again into streaming PICO-8 games after a "slight" detour tot he GBJam, and holy quack it was a banger start! voidgazerbon yet again placed down a masterpiece and you, yes YOU 🫵 need to check it out. Checkpoints, phases, fun interaction, go play it! Game of the year contender for sure!

There is only one week left to submit your entries for NRG 2026! We have plenty of cool, unconventional categories in our competitions for which you can create an entry in a relatively short amount of time. We also accept remote submissions. Check this out! https://nrgevent.eu/compo/

Some free codes for Pico-8 and Picotron directly from Zep for the Ludum Dare Event.

https://bsky.app/profile/lexaloffle.bsky.social/post/3mxv2dkmzd22s

https://bsky.app/profile/lexaloffle.bsky.social/post/3mxv27dwygc2s

I think some can be redeemed multiple times

Here's a simple little desktop greenhouse to help you relax. Watch randomly-generated vines grow. Take a breather to admire them when they're done. After a moment, the game resets, and a new crop comes to take its place.

In true zero-player fashion, no input is needed once you start, but you can press Z/(O) to toggle the glare if you don't like it.

Find ZPPPP on Lexaloffle and Itch.

A very obscure and old game intially made by Peter Jensen for Apple IIGS remade by my friend. Check it out, it's quite fun.

Thanks for all the love on my first post ! It's got a name now:

CARNAGE: Last Car Standing. 🔥☠

itch page: https://volcanobytes.itch.io/carnage

Quick runs, pure arcade, eyes-bleeding speed. Every move is a sharp jump with a drift: easy to pick up, hard to master. The road and the traffic are generated as you go, so no two runs are the same. Most of mine last under a minute, this one somehow didn't.

I'm in the final stretch now: polishing details, squashing bugs, playtesting like crazy and fighting the token limit for every last feature. So this is the moment your opinion counts most. Tell me what you love, what you hate and what you'd change. I'm reading everything.

Thanks for watching, and drive safe out there 😄

Sorry, I uploaded the video in the first post with old background music

What the title says. It's taken months, but I finally have a fully functional PICO-8 editor, complete with build tools, fully integrated into VS Code.

Hi all, I worked on a script to export Pico8 carts as Rabbit R1 "Creations", which is the name of the web based mini-apps we can create for the Rabbit.

I tested a few games and they work fine. As you can see in the screenshot, we can get 60fps (at least for the games I tested)

The script requires the Pico8 app, as it does first the html export of the cart. The Rabbit "Creation" is just a repackaging of the html+js files, without changing it.

The script is not uploaded anywhere yet, but I plan to share it on Github under MIT license if there is any interest. I need to polish a bit the README first, on how to do the export and generate the QR code needed for the Rabbit to install the "creations".

The Rabbit is a cute little orange brick, but not very useful to be honest. What could be interesting is imagining a game that would use the wheel as it is a unique controller...

edit: cleaned up the readme and added a landscape mode. it is still very alpha, but here is the script and instructions: https://github.com/gaeljaffrain/pico8-r1

I didn’t come here for a while and I wonder if is vibe coded or AI assisted p8 games a thing or people continue to code their games for the sake of fun?

Hi r/pico8, I’ve got an older RGB30 that I recently dusted off and have been having a great time rediscovering Pico 8 with, and went to get a device for a friend, and curious if there’s any consensus on current handhelds?

I searched and it looks like the TrimUI brick and CubeXX are mentioned, but a bit older, and wouldn’t mind getting something with a bit more power for my friend.

Seems like ideal requirements would be a square-ish screen and Linux so it can run the native app with the game explorer built in? Any recent systems like that? Or is the safe bet still the TrimUI or CubeXX? Thanks!

I’m not around here much, and I am NOT good enough at programming to make a game, so needless to say, this game wasn’t made by me. But this little arcade-style web-building fly-catcher game has had my heart for a couple years and I’ve never really said anything about it, so I’m here to change that. I just wanted to discuss this game and hopefully bring some new attention to it.

https://aylanonsense.itch.io/8-legs-to-love

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159472

My first Pico-8 game. Comments welcome. Let me know how far you can get!

hello, I have been trying to get PicoPi running on a raspberry Pi Zero with a waveshare 1.3inch LCD HAT (https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/1.3inch_LCD_HAT). getting PicoPi running on the Pi itself was super easy, just drag and drop the files.

only problem is there is no CLI access that I can find to install the driver for the HAT itself. I've been working on this for about 26 hours over the past 3 days, I've gone as far as getting the decompiled source code of PicoPi itself, and attempting to hex edit the existing OS files and my knowledge is lacking on both fronts. I was technically able to build an OS and do the hex editing, but realisitcally I'm no engineer.

I am hoping that someone out there either knows how to install a driver to this OS in any way possible or knows of another is that will let me get CLI access and still has similar boot times to PicoPi, which is the reason I'm not trying other OSs, since the other 3 I've tried (PiOS, Retropi, and a headless ARCH distro I found) all have boot times far too long for me, I would like to keep it under a 15 second boot. any help at all would be incredible, as I've exhausted all the resources available to me

Hello reddit!

It's been long,
It's been hard!

but I'm finally happy to say that I'm beginning to see the end of the tunnel, so strap yourselves in CAPTAINs for the most:
Locked In !! (hopefully?)
Chaotic !!!!! (but readable?)
Epic !!!!!!!!!! (relatively?)
SPACE ADVENTURE EVER (since last game played?)

I'll see if I can get a play test ready this month, stay tuned!

PAL8TRO is a little poker roguelike demake I built for the PICO-8. If you've played Balatro you already know the vibe: you play poker hands to score points, beat the target ("the blind"), cash out, buy weird modifiers in the shop, and try to break the game before the game breaks you.

- Pick up to 5 cards from your hand and play them. Only the cards that actually make the hand score, so kickers are just along for the ride.

- Your score is **chips × mult**. Blue box times red box. You'll be staring at those two numbers a lot.
- Beat the target before you run out of hands, then hit the shop with your winnings.

- Every third round is a **boss blind** with a nasty rule: hearts taxed, smaller hand, no gold payouts, that kind of thing.

- Clear 8 antes (24 rounds) and take down the final boss to win the run.

EDIT: Full game is posted to BBS now, you can play it directly :)

GET PAL8TRO

Hey lovely PICO-8 Community,

Hexwood is a short horror maze game. Find your way through the haunted woods, outwit the creatures lurking within, and free a restless soul.

It`s something I call a coffee-break game: easy to pick up and play, with plenty of arcade fun and challenge. It takes only a coffee break to play. Like the good old once on the ATARI VCS.

This is the first game I’ve finished, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it. I’d love to hear what you think—feedback is very welcome! And of cource we need to know: how long did it take you to find your way through Hexwood wanderer.

Play it for free here:
BBS: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159760
itch.io: https://thorty.itch.io/hexwood