PICO-8 explained: the 128×128, Lua-powered fantasy console that started a movement
PICO-8 is a fantasy console: a deliberately limited virtual game machine designed for making, sharing, and playing tiny games and programs. It exists because constraints can make a creative tool easier to understand, easier to finish with, and more focused on small-game design than on large-scale production. Lexaloffle Games, by Joseph “Zep” White, released it in 2015 and it helped popularize the term “fantasy console” as a category. For newcomers, the key idea is simple: PICO-8 is not trying to
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