# PICO 8

>pico-8 comes with a manual.txt or something  
>the pico-8 Wikia is very detailed  
>the main website's BBS has the rest, as well as a ton of examples  

Trasevol_dog's patreon and twitter are a great resource as well as his games on the BBS  
https://neko250.github.io/pico8-api/  
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=28207  

they have a discord channel [http://discord.gg/EwQ86eq](http://discord.gg/EwQ86eq)  

### GitHub awesome list
[https://github.com/felipebueno/awesome-PICO-8](https://github.com/felipebueno/awesome-PICO-8)  

### Useful
[PICO-8 Shooter in 16 gifs](https://ztiromoritz.github.io/pico-8-shooter/)  
[breakout video tutorial series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7azf71z0QE&list=PLYND9uft5u_1YCkmXiMrPU7tiBG3hIKAZ)  
[more links to tutorials](http://blog.nextthing.co/resources-to-help-you-learn-pico-8-game-development/)  

### DEFINITELY WATCH THESE if you’re doing music!

[Music editor tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj1LJQutMCY&list=PLjZAika8vyZkyOjoCp0EbHeIFZ8MLlhvg)  
**PICO-8 Music Inspiration:** Pico-8 only has 4 sound channels to work with, so if your music takes up multiple channels, that means less channels available for SFX  
[https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=4050](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=4050)  
[https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=28414](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=28414) - very small number of tracks per song. Different music per lvl!  
[https://twitter.com/gruber_music](https://twitter.com/gruber_music) - Very good musician that makes amazingly complex music with very little resources.  
You can find examples of his music in games by searching for him on the BBS: [https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?search=gruber&cat=7](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?search=gruber&cat=7)  

### Pixel Art:
[https://twitter.com/saint11](https://twitter.com/saint11) - posts tons of pixel art tutorial gifs on his patreon and consolidated here!   
[http://blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart](http://blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart)

### Code / Effects: 
[https://twitter.com/TRASEVOL_DOG](https://twitter.com/TRASEVOL_DOG) - posts a ton of graphics / effects related stuff on his [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/trasevol_dog)  

Most of it is only available to patrons though so you’ll have to scrounge around the BBS for his stuff that has some of the techniques he uses. (you should be doing this whenever you see something interesting in a PICO-8 game. Look at how they did it!)  
https://level0gamedev.blogspot.com/2016/05/hello-world.html - a blog by a guy that is teaching himself game dev with PICO-8  
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2119 - example cog for simple map collision (note, this won’t help with things not on the map)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj1LJQutMCY&list=PLjZAika8vyZkyOjoCp0EbHeIFZ8MLlhvg  

#### PICO-8 shooter in 16 gifs is good
https://twitter.com/lexaloffle/status/742449433078435840  
https://twitter.com/lexaloffle/status/871048334525341697

### [PICO-8 Fanzine](https://sectordub.itch.io/pico-8-fanzine-1)