Fantasy Consoles PICO-8 TIC-80

Comments primarily recommend PICO-8 and TIC-80 as fantasy consoles for constrained retro-style game development, often in response to queries about simple programming environments for games.

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Sample Comments

hidden-spyder Oct 3, 2021 View on HN

TIC-80 might be what you're looking for.

azeirah Nov 18, 2021 View on HN

Are you thinking of PICO-8 perhaps?

pringk02 Sep 14, 2023 View on HN

Popular to do stuff like that for "fantasy consoles" inspired by Pico8

w84death Sep 30, 2017 View on HN

Try Pico-8!http://krzysztofjankowski.com/blog/pico-8-fantasy-console.ht...

ian_hn Sep 26, 2024 View on HN

Like this maybe? https://tic80.com/

opan Jul 23, 2024 View on HN

You may find TIC-80 interesting.

planetafro Mar 21, 2025 View on HN

Have you seen the pico8 software?https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

coffee Jan 18, 2024 View on HN

Have you tried the https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php on something like a https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/ ?

TedDallas Oct 2, 2023 View on HN

Tic-80 is what you are looking for.

FiddlyPack Mar 4, 2019 View on HN

Highly recommend you check out PICO-8