Hey all! Just purchased PICO-8 couple days ago, really love its aesthetics! Anyways, I bought PICO-8 because of my prior knowledge with music trackers/sfx creation and pixel art. I actually use programs like Aseprite(Retro/Pixel Animation Studio) and Milky Tracker (Digital Audio Workstation) on a daily basis! Ever since I was just a wee lad I've always had game ideas bouncing around in my head. Even back in 2008 I was using a tool called Lunar Magic to hack Super Mario World to use the pre-existing engine to modify levels and the overworld. With all this said I've never written an original line of code in my life. I was going to spend the afternoon with my face full of those picozines and try and learn from there. While regularly consulting the manual as needed. But is there anything I should know?
Welcome!
Pico-8 is a great place to learn code! I think you should look into some introduction to code before hand though and learn the very basics of loops, variables and objects etc!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8w5SL5ItE&t=36s
this is a series of just the plain basic, and is using Lua and love2D, very similar to PICO-8 Lua!
I have coded before I started with PICO, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaLuMhwcc8 helped a lot! This was a small series of clips that made a game in Pico,learning the syntax and uses in PICO!
There is also tons of content here on the forum to look at!
Good look and have fun!
/Elastiskalinjen(Sebastian)
I'm on a mac and some of what he told me to install/run I don't really know how to run via this OS. However, I've been following along with his tutorial in PICO-8. Everything is working so far at least. Was able to print hello world in the black typey screen (shell thing?)
There is a great series running, you should check it out
Oh wow thanks! This is great! I've already started watching the first video series. (On Lua) Might switch over to this tutorial if I lose my patience. :P Thank you!
>But is there anything I should know?
if you need to start small project, the picozine is great:
https://sectordub.itch.io/pico-8-fanzine-1
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