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Make your own cartridges or browse the cartverse in SPLORE!
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Welcome to PICO-8!
PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.
Specifications
| Display | 128x128 16 colours | |
| Cart Size | 32k | |
| Sound | 4 channel chip blerps | |
| Code | P8 Lua | |
| CPU | 4M vm insts/sec | |
| Sprites | 256 8x8 sprites | |
| Map | 128x32 tiles |
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The harsh limitations of PICO-8 are carefully chosen to be fun to work with, to encourage small but
expressive designs, and to give cartridges made with PICO-8 their own particular look and feel.
Creative Tools
PICO-8 has tools for editing code, music, sound, sprites, maps built right into the console. Create a whole game or program in one sitting without needing to leave the cosy development environment!
Shareable Cartridges
PICO-8 cartridges can be saved in a special .png format and sent directly to other users, shared with anyone via a web cart player, or exported to stand-alone HTML5, Windows, Mac and Linux apps.
Any cartridge can be opened again in PICO-8, letting you peek inside to modify or study the code, graphics and sound.
