picolove
PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D. Chat: https://discord.gg/jGEMUse6RM (by picolove)
TIC-80
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. (by nesbox)
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| picolove | TIC-80 | |
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| 7 | 134 | |
| 722 | 4,744 | |
| 1.5% | - | |
| 8.5 | 9.2 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| Lua | C | |
| zlib License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
picolove
Posts with mentions or reviews of picolove.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Pico 8 in other software
Picolove, written in lua for love2d: a very good starting point, especially if the engine you're using has support for lua. Has been used for "expanded" versions of games, because it's very easy to modify the resolution of the display and things like that. Works for simpler carts like Celeste, but is not memory accurate!
- LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
- Turns are better than radians
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Simple Engine ontop of löve framework?
You should check out picolove (https://github.com/picolove/picolove). It’s the PICO-8 API implemented in Löve. It can run PICO-8 games, but it doesn’t have support for the PICO-8 dev tools (code editor, sprite editor, etc…)
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What is the best free game engine to make a game with Pixel Perfect visuals, similar to an NES or Game Boy game?
PicoLove also see love2d below
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What are some free alternatives to P8?
I've never used it, but you could try picolove. It's a reimplementation of the PICO-8 API in Love2D. So, only the code part is there and you don't get the music/sprite/map editor, and all the other stuff that makes PICO-8 PICO-8. If you plan on buying PICO-8 later though, this could be a good primer to learn the API for free
- Pico-8 – Fantasy Console
TIC-80
Posts with mentions or reviews of TIC-80.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
- Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
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Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages.
https://tic80.com/
- Not only Unity...
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PicoCalc
I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0].
0. https://tic80.com/
- Publishing my first game using pico-8
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, squirrel, wren, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added.
https://tic80.com
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Procedural Tree Generator - Free Pixel Art Tool
Included native builds for windows, mac, linux, html, and also TIC-80's .PNG, .TIC and .LUA formats. Try out the web version here - https://tic80.com/play?cart=3424 See the TIC-80 wiki for instructions on exporting https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki
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Procedural Tree Generator
https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/ - TIC-80 website (for running .lua .png or .tic files) as well as TIC-80 documentation.
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Hey, I need advice!😶
Try https://tic80.com/ instead of PICO-8, it's a free open-source alternative and still fun.
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Anybody working on games here?
Tho personally I've come to prefer making my games in https://love2d.org and https://tic80.com
What are some alternatives?
When comparing picolove and TIC-80 you can also consider the following projects:
PixelVision8 - Pixel Vision 8's core philosophy is to teach retro game development with streamlined workflows. PV8 is also a platform that standardizes 8-bit fantasy console limitations built on top of the open-source C# game engine based on MonoGame.
awesome-PICO-8 - A curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more
quadplay - The quadplay✜ fantasy console
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
LIKO-12 - LIKO-12 is an open source fantasy computer made using LÖVE.
pyxel - A retro game engine for Python
dragon_demo_platformer - PICO-8 Fooling and Learning
Wolf Engine - The Wolf is a comprehensive set of C/C++ open source libraries for realtime rendering, realtime streaming and game developing
nmap - Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.
ruffle - A Flash Player emulator written in Rust