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PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and
provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.
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Specs
| Display | | 128x128 16 colours |
| Cartridge Size | | 32k |
| Sound | | 4 channel chip blerps |
| Code | | Lua |
| Sprites | | 128 8x8 sprites |
| Map | | 128x32 cels |
| Controls | | 2 6-button joysticks |
The harsh limitations of PICO-8 are carefully chosen to be fun to work with, encourage small but
expressive designs and hopefully to give PICO-8 cartridges their own particular look and feel.
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Creative Tools
PICO-8 has tools for editing code, music, sound, sprites, maps built right into the console.
Create a whole game or program in one sitting without needing to leave the cosy development environment!
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Shareable Cartridges
PICO-8 cartidges can be saved in a special .png format and sent directly
to other users or played via an online cart player.
> Play BBS Carts
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Get PICO-8
Become a registered user of PICO-8 and receive access to DRM-free downloads for Windows, Linux and OSX, along with all
future updates.
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Voxatron Alpha
PICO-8 is also available to alpha users of Lexaloffle's other fantasy console, Voxatron.
If you already own it, please check your updates page!
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System Requirements
To use PICO-8, you'll need Windows, Linux or a Mac with a 700MHz cpu and any video card.
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