during the last two weeks I’ve started exploring Pico-8. It is a self-described fantasy videogame console. It is a tiny game engine with artificially strict technical constraints. If Bitsy, another tiny game engine, is like haiku, then Pico-8 is like tanka.

To learn this Integrated Development Environment (jargon normally contracted to IDE by the in-group) I am re/de-making Seeds of Solitude. I’m attaching my first steps here as a PNG formatted file. Pico-8 encodes the playable game in a virtual cartridge – an image – that is shareable. Right-click and save the cartridge image and load it into your copy of Pico-8.

Pico-8 is not freeware. The developer charges 15USD at the time of this writing.