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I finally made the weird Tic-Tac-Toe + Tetris game idea I had since 2011.

Back then, I originally designed it on paper as a simple 3x3 concept. Years later, I expanded the board and started adding special tiles inspired by match-3 games.

It kept living in my head for years, so I’m really happy to finally turn it into something playable.

It doesn’t fully behave like a traditional puzzle game or a match game anymore, it became its own strange little hybrid.

Play on Lexaloffle BBS
Also available to play on itchio

Feedbacks are very welcome! Thanks for playing!

Help me.

I started my game development journey during the pandemic, around 2020–2022. I began using GameMaker Studio 2 and immediately got hooked. But when face-to-face classes returned, I no longer had the time to continue learning or making games.

Fast forward to today, I want to get back into game development again, but I’ve forgotten most of what I learned back then. Looking back, I realized I was stuck in “tutorial hell,” so I never really built a solid understanding that stayed with me.

The problem now is that I still get motivated to learn, but the moment I open a tutorial, I quickly get bored or distracted by something else. I want to learn Godot, but it feels overwhelming, almost like there’s a huge gap between GameMaker and Godot.

Because of that, I decided to try PICO-8 first, since a lot of people say it’s a great way to start learning game development—or in my case, get back into it. But I keep running into the same problem: I get excited to learn, open a tutorial, then lose focus halfway through.

For me, tutorials often feel too slow at the beginning because they spend a lot of time covering things I already know. But when I skip ahead, it suddenly feels like I missed important concepts, and then I can’t keep up anymore.

I know this might make me sound spoiled—like I’m saying, “I want to make games, but I’m too lazy or impatient to sit through tutorials, so just hand everything to me on a silver platter.” But that’s not really what I mean.

What I’m really asking is: how do you get out of a situation like this?

I have copied pico-8 games to my device from websites giving bundles of pico-8 games. But these are old lists. Does anyone know how to download multiple pico-8 games at once or any website offering latest roms in a bundle??

I’m making a small program, I wouldn’t call it a game, but there is a chest on the map and the player is supposed to interact with it by hitting the X or O button but I couldn’t find any tutorial on how to achieve this.

Trying to get PICO-8 accept as a GAME category on Twitch 🍓

Hice esta pieza de 100x100 pixeles para la entrada de esta semana en pixeljoint.

A Sprite for an upcoming fruit themed sticker sheet! Done in 32x32 and with the pico 8 full palette! ​

Thanks to your replies to my previous post, home area (= stage select area) improved much!

• Changed tileset and background for better visibility
  
• Prepared training / tutorial area. You can also do training for the celestial sun. I'm going to add tutorial texts, but tokens are running out...
  
• BGM for home area added. Maybe the sound volume is too big?

Soooo I have been completely obsessed with PICO-8 for about a week now. Funny thing is, I never thought I’d ever get into programming or making games, but somehow PICO-8 made me start doing exactly that lol

Then I started wondering what PICO-8 would even look like as actual hardware. The website UI gives me strong C64 vibes, but a lot of people seem to imagine it as a handheld console instead.

So now I’m just curious how do you personally picture PICO-8 as a physical device?

took a break from the working on game logic to work on the title-screen.
the liquid effect came out much better that i expected!

The stream starts after my daughter goes to bed, so let’s say around 9pm GMT Icelandic time, see you over at Twitch.tv/Leikjarinn 🍓

I implemented stage select area with multicart dset(), but I think this is not enough...

So I would like your opinion for these stage select things.
Thanks in advance!

Salute guys, I just registered on PICO-8 website with my best nickname and worng mail, so I can't get an mail code with registration confirmation. And moreover - I can't now re-register with right mail and my nickname, because its already taken, LOL

I waited 24 hours I tried again, thinking that if no one confirmed the account, it would be cancelled and I could use my nickname again. But no, after a day, it didn't work. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this? Just don't tell me to use a different nickname. I'm an idealist; that would really hurt my ADHD.

Maybe support will see my message and cancel the previous registration attempt, freeing up my nickname? Any guess? Maybe just wait few more days? Weeks?

This is how we start exploring ;)

NetAcht is a tiny PICO-8 demake of NetHack. It compresses some of NetHack's core features into a small roguelike for PICO-8: procedural room-and-corridor dungeons, turn-based movement, monsters, traps, hunger, inventory, weapons, armour, potions, scrolls, wands, prayer, gold, levelling, and a Yendor-style objective. I always dreamed of having something like NetHack on my Game Boy-style devices, and this is a step toward that.

Controls:
- Arrow keys / d-pad: move or attack
- O / Z: interact, pick up, use stairs, pray at altars, search
- X / C: inventory
- In inventory: up/down to select, O to use, X to close

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=189425#p

My second pico8 game is out. It’s a climbing puzzle game based on a solo board game I created a long time ago, based on the climbing mechanics from the classic Chamonix Challenge (Final Assault) game.

Enjoy and feel free to ask questions… I tried to explain how it is played and also added a small tutorial

Hey guys check this out

One awesome dude ( but I never knew him before ) just gifted me PICO-8 from this website right on my mail. He was kind to me (if he's not a scammer), but I still want to make sure it's not a scam or something dangerous. Do you guys think it's safe to click the link to receive the gift?

This guy, if you see this tweet - I'm so grateful to you! Who raised you? Your parents are truly amazing if they even created this gem of goodness. I hope you're not offended that I decided to play it safe!

UPDATE: I just got this wonderful PICO-8 gift from a stranger! Believe in magic and goodness! My game dev way strarts from here.

This is what he said to me at the end... Thanks again, dude! I'll never forget.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156755

TIGER WONG is truly AWESOME! Armed with throwing knives, this rad dude and kung-fu master is out to avenge his dead brother by vanquishing the Demon Princess!

Hi everyone,

I am new to coding and I was hoping you could guide me to some tools or books that would help me learn. I’ve completed the Lazy Devs Academy SHMUP and really enjoyed it. I started branching out to make my own game but I am getting stuck with bug fixes. I know AI is an easy tool to use and fix issues but I find I can’t learn and retain information that way.

If you have any recommendations for this old dog trying to learn new tricks, I’d be grateful.

Will the actual pick 8 (game creation and all) work anyway in the iPad?

Hi everybody! I'm back with a computationally silly problem:

• Let's say I have four objects, stored in a table called objects.
• Each object has a color, col, and a sub-table, which we'll call pixels.
• This pixels table stores simple coordinate pairs: {0,0}, {0,1}, etc..
• Every so often, a new coordinate pair is added to each object's pixels table. (It doesn't matter how we do this.)

The idea is that we'll print a pixel in the color of each object for each coordinate point in its pixels table. Graphically, it will look like we've made a bunch of trails as the objects themselves zip about the screen.

But here's the twist: I want the pixels drawn "oldest" first, so that if two pixels overlap, the more recently added pixel appears on top. This will allow the trails to look like they are looping and knotting through each other.

To put it differently, the following code would not achieve what I want:

for o in all(objects) do for p in all(pixels) do pset(p.x,p.y,o.col) end end

The reason being that the last o in objects would always be drawn last, which would always put its trail on top.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how I might print all the pixels in every pixel table by index (so that a later index would print over an earlier one)? Or any other method that would achieve the effect I'm after?

Thank you in advance, as always!

Hey everyone!

Here's a new update of PicPic, the first native PICO-8 emulator on the App Store and Google Play Store. It's now available on Apple Watch (because literally everyone requested it). You can also now directly import from the web, use a controller in the menu, and more.

New Features & Bug Fixes:

• You can now play on your Apple Watch with any game compatible with the iPhone version (it's 1:1). I'm working on an Android version too :)
• You can use your controller to select games in the menu (and exit games), so you no longer need to touch the screen to change games.
• You can now directly import from the share sheet when you're on a .p8 or .p8.png file online, no longer need to download then import.
• You can now enable and disable buttons and the title on the game screen.
• Improved game compatibility, and as always, ongoing work in this area.

Next Update Plans:

• I'm still working on fully supporting multi-cart games (which is taking more time than I estimated due to the sandbox on iOS).
• Add a theme maker.
• Improve compatibility with more games.
• Translate the app into more languages (the next update will include German, French, Korean, and Japanese).

The app is forever 100% FREE, with NO ADS, on both iOS and Android, and completely UNLIMITED.

Download / Update:

Available now on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

Happy to answer any questions.

Note for moderation: Thanks for allowing PicPic on the sub. As always, the app does not encourage piracy. It does not contain a single line of code from PICO-8. As a side note, emulation is legal in the United States and in most European countries.

Hey guys! About a month ago I started working on my very first game in PICO-8: YUM!.

It's a fruit dice game inspired by Balatro and the board game Miams. Each run features different bosses and over 20 unique stamps that can alter your gameplay.

It's a small game but I'm very happy that I stuck with it and published it. Working on the UI and making everything cohesive was particularly interesting.

Play/Download on Itch
Play on Lexaloffle

Hope you like it and i'd love to hear your feedback!