Posts tagged with game design

Prototyping on the PICO-8

A few days ago I stumbled upon a really lovely piece of pixel art, which I found out was done with the PICO-8 palette. I’d previously seen store listings for the PICO-8, but didn’t really understand what it was until seeing some of the things people had done with it. If you, like me, had no clue this existed, let me attempt to explain the PICO-8. It’s a “fantasy console” for making small 8-bit-ish games with a built in development environment and game explorer.