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What's your favorite PICO-8 feature? (self.pico8)

submitted 2 years ago by thtroyer to c/pico8

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I enjoy the limited environment, retro-like environment myself. It limits my choices to stay focused on small projects, while providing a fairly robust and modern environment to work in.

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[–] thtroyer 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah. I grew up playing the NES and it was very much the spark that caused me to get so interested in technology (and eventually programming).

A few years ago, I discovered the NES homebrew scene and learned so much. After a few weeks, I basically got some basics working, but the environment is not forgiving and I never quite clicked with 6502 assembly.

PICO-8, on the other hand, offers similar asset restriction with a very friendly environment. It's not perfect (and Lua is hardly a favorite language of mine), but it's fun.

I might revisit NES homebrew eventually, but PICO-8 scratches that itch for me right now.