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PICO-8 Educational Toolset
a collection by
MBoffin (Dylan Bennett)
· last updated
2023-11-10 02:53:00
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PICO-8 Educational Toolset
A set of PICO-8 carts to help someone learn various game development concepts.
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PICO-8: Drawing Reference
A simple reference cart to show the results of the main PICO-8 drawing functions.
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PICO-8: Color Reference
A simple reference cart showing the PICO-8 color palette.
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PICO-8: Using Buttons
A cart showing the basics of using buttons for movement.
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PICO-8: Top-Down Adventure Game Tutorial
A beginner-level tutorial for making a top-down adventure game in PICO-8.
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PICO-8: Movement with Inertia
A heavily-commented cart showing how to move a player with inertia.
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PICO-8: Basic Game Loop
A cart showing the basic game loop of PICO-8.
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PICO-8: Projectiles
A heavily-commented cart showing show to do simple projectiles in PICO-8.
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PICO-8: Particles
A heavily-commented cart showing how to create particle systems in PICO-8.
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PICO-8: Camera Follow
A heavily commented PICO-8 cart on how to make the camera follow the player.
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PICO-8: Smooth Map Screens
A heavily commented PICO-8 cart showing how to do smooth map screen transitions.
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PICO-8: Map Screens
A heavily-commented cart showing how to transition to different map screens.
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PICO-8: Fill Patterns
A cart showing how the fill patterns function of PICO-8 works.
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PICO-8: Gravity
A heavily-commented cart showing how to add gravity to an object.
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PICO-8: Simple Item Animation
A heavily commented cart that shows how to animate items.
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PICO-8: Game States
A heavily-commented cart for creating different game states (menu, game, game over, etc.).
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PICO-8: Pickups
A heavily-commented demonstration of using pickups.
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PICO-8: Movement with Map Collision
A heavily-commented demonstration of simple movement with map collision.
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PICO-8: Map-Based Grid Movement
A heavily-commented demonstration of simple map-based grid movement.
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PICO-8 Music Reference
A simple reference cart to use when translating written music to PICO-8.
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PICO-8: Simple Animation Explanation
A tutorial for doing simple animation in PICO-8.
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PICO-8: Maze Algorithm Tutorial
An easy-to-follow demonstration of a random maze algorithm.
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PICO-8: Checking for Overlap
A simple tutorial for checking overlap between two boxes.
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Ternary Operators
A simple explanation of ternary operators. (A.K.A. The ninja "if"!)
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