Posted April 18, 2022 by Imogia Games
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Note: this article is definitely adressing noobs/beginners like myself and people that have difficulty with coding but are perseverant enough to try and keep going.
In the last article, we installed external packages for Atom.
Today I want to show you guys how to do the same with Visual Studio Code, with an extra nice little feature that helps very much.
So, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is free, so anyone can download and install it.
The ones I tried are:
- pico8-vscode by Jogn Barton
- pico8vscodeeditorby Grumpydev
Those two will add Pico8 language, syntax and color code to VS Code.
It is an invaluable time saver, and it also helped me thinking about organize my code a little better.
Finally, the last one, cherry on the cake is pico8-theme by Ian J Sikes. Same as the pico8UI in Atom, this will change VSCode Ui to a similar set of colors than Pico8. I think it's fun, but the bloody red is a bit aggressive on my eyes imo :p.
That's all folks! I hope you enjoyed it and that it was useful to you. Don't hesitate to share your tips and tricks in the comments!
Cheers.