What is it?
Last year I wrote a six-part tutorial series for The MagPi magazine that takes a complete novice all the way from installing PICO-8, to designing a full game with audio and effects, to releasing it on the BBS. The MagPi is a fantastic UK magazine that covers everything Raspberry Pi related and, with unfathomable generosity, makes all their issues available online for free in .pdf form. I post the full collection here now in the hope that they are useful.
Tutorial list
Tutorial 1: Get Started with PICO-8 and Raspberry Pi
Turn your Raspberry Pi into the coolest console around with PICO-8! Play, make, and share 8-bit games
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Tutorial 2: Learn Lua with PICO-8
You’ve played other people’s PICO-8 games, now it’s time to make your own! Create a retro space-shooter whilst learning the Lua language
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Tutorial 3: Make 8-bit graphics in PICO-8
Develop your pixel-art prowess and learn how to animate sprites with PICO-8. We’ll throw in some cool space explosions along the way
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Tutorial 4: Add game music and SFX in PICO-8
Use PICO-8’s built-in synthesizer to create space-age sound effects and get your pulse pounding by composing some bangin’ retro chiptunes
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Tutorial 5: Design retro game maps and levels in PICO-8
Take your game design to the next level by learning to use PICO-8’s map editor. Draw terrain and build your first level!
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Tutorial 6: Polish and release your PICO-8 game
Time to go gold! Let’s apply some final finishing touches to our retro space shooter, and release it into the wild
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Attack of the Green Blobs
You can play the game that was created for this project in full
Additionally, here is the git repo for the full project. NB: In the interests of code readability, the code for this project is optimised for comprehension rather than token efficiency.
@MBoffin thank you! They are not as detailed as your video tutorials (pesky magazine word limits) but there should be some useful stuff in there, especially for beginners.
@vanillafish22 you're welcome!
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Thank is working you so much for your share!! It will greatly help me to understand how Pico-8 is working and learn it in a very pleasant way!!
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