Editing PICO-8

[[File:PICO-8 logo.png|thumb|right|PICO-8 logo]] '''PICO-8''' is a fantasy console created by Lexaloffle Games. The first to describe itself as a "fantasy console", PICO-8's success led to many other fantasy consoles being created in the years since. The harsh limitations of PICO-8 were specifically chosen, according to its website, to be "fun to work with, [...] encourage small but expressive designs, and to give cartridges made with PICO-8 their own particular look and feel."<ref name="pico8site">"PICO-8 Fantasy Console", https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</ref>

== Capabilities ==

PICO-8 games are limited to a 128-by-128 pixel display with 16 colors available to be used out of a total of 32. In addition, games can take advantage of a 4-channel synth for music and sound effects, a 128x32 map with built-in functions for drawing and manipulation, and 256 8x8 sprites.<ref name="pico8site">"PICO-8 Fantasy Console", https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</ref>

== Programming ==

PICO-8 games are programmed in a special flavor of the Lua programming language. Programs are limited to 8192 "tokens". Tokens are:

* Literal values, such as `nil`, booleans, strings, or numbers
* Variables
* Operators
* Opening brackets (closing brackets are not counted as tokens)
* Keywords except `local` and `end`

In addition, programs cannot be larger than 64 KB, and must compress to 15 KB or smaller.<ref name="pico8manual">"PICO-8 Manual", https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html</ref>

== Publishing ==

PICO-8 games can be published on the Lexaloffle BBS, which can be accessed within PICO-8 using the "SPLORE" cart explorer. Additionally, PICO-8 games can be exported to HTML or to binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux.<ref name="pico8manual">"PICO-8 Manual", https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html</ref>

== References ==

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-[[File:PICO-8 logo.png|thumb|right|PICO-8 logo]] '''PICO-8''' is a fantasy console created by [https://www.lexaloffle.com/ Lexaloffle Games]. The first to describe itself as a "fantasy console", PICO-8's success led to many other fantasy consoles being created in the years since. The harsh limitations of PICO-8 were specifically chosen, according to its website, to be "fun to work with, [...] encourage small but expressive designs, and to give cartridges made with PICO-8 their own particular look and feel."<ref name="pico8site">"PICO-8 Fantasy Console", https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</ref>
+[[File:PICO-8 logo.png|thumb|right|PICO-8 logo]] '''PICO-8''' is a fantasy console created by Lexaloffle Games. The first to describe itself as a "fantasy console", PICO-8's success led to many other fantasy consoles being created in the years since. The harsh limitations of PICO-8 were specifically chosen, according to its website, to be "fun to work with, [...] encourage small but expressive designs, and to give cartridges made with PICO-8 their own particular look and feel."<ref name="pico8site">"PICO-8 Fantasy Console", https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</ref>
-PICO-8 is one of the few fantasy consoles that is not free for the basic version, however, a free-to-use educational version also exists without some of the game browsing features.
 == Capabilities ==
-PICO-8 games are limited to a 128-by-128 pixel display with 16 colors available to be used out of a total of 32. In addition, games can take advantage of a 4-channel synth for music and sound effects, a 128x32 map with built-in functions for drawing and manipulation, and 256 8x8 sprites.<ref name="pico8site" />
+PICO-8 games are limited to a 128-by-128 pixel display with 16 colors available to be used out of a total of 32. In addition, games can take advantage of a 4-channel synth for music and sound effects, a 128x32 map with built-in functions for drawing and manipulation, and 256 8x8 sprites.<ref name="pico8site">"PICO-8 Fantasy Console", https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php</ref>
 == Programming ==
-PICO-8 games are programmed in a special flavor of the Lua programming language. It does not include the Lua standard libraries, but it does provide functions that serve similar purposes.<ref name="pico8manual">"PICO-8 Manual", https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html</ref>
+PICO-8 games are programmed in a special flavor of the Lua programming language. Programs are limited to 8192 "tokens". Tokens are:
-PICO-8 programs are limited to 8192 "tokens". Tokens are:
-* Literal values, such as <code>nil</code>, booleans, strings, or numbers
+* Literal values, such as `nil`, booleans, strings, or numbers
 * Variables
 * Operators
 * Opening brackets (closing brackets are not counted as tokens)
-* Keywords except <code>local</code> and <code>end</code>
+* Keywords except `local` and `end`
-In addition, programs cannot be larger than 64 KB, and must compress to 15 KB or smaller.<ref name="pico8manual" />
+In addition, programs cannot be larger than 64 KB, and must compress to 15 KB or smaller.<ref name="pico8manual">"PICO-8 Manual", https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html</ref>
 == Publishing ==
-PICO-8 games can be published on the Lexaloffle BBS, which can be accessed within PICO-8 using the "SPLORE" cart explorer. Additionally, PICO-8 games can be exported to HTML or to binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
+PICO-8 games can be published on the Lexaloffle BBS, which can be accessed within PICO-8 using the "SPLORE" cart explorer. Additionally, PICO-8 games can be exported to HTML or to binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux.<ref name="pico8manual">"PICO-8 Manual", https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html</ref>
-== Education Edition ==
-In April 2022, Zep released a free-to-use educational version of PICO-8 that supports creating games, as well as saving and loading standard PICO-8 cartridges.<ref name="pico8edu">"PICO-8 Education Edition, https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=47278</ref> It also supports loading carts directly from an encoded URL of 2040 characters or less, and can export URLs for sharing.
-It is missing the "SPLORE" functionality, so games cannot be freely browsed and must be manually loaded.
-== External Links ==
-* [https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php Official website]
-* [https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/Pico-8_Wikia PICO-8 Wiki]
-* [https://www.pico-8-edu.com/ PICO-8 Education Edition]
-* [https://cheatsheets.one/tech/pico-8 PICO-8 Cheat Sheet]
-* [https://www.pico-8-edu.com/?c=AHB4YQMCAdLrweIDPMAbHP8IRfME2d3J6c0zHP8E3fVl_hJL0UvckkRJEtsgaG676qjsrKOSm4qiDRQDHuAdZp5hRC4on6iaAfGQsAijPq2qsKruqoLuIZZctfQCZdm-xFVntUGYj81lt3U_yNtqLsmmhjZWkik-9P2NNyUGe4AnGBldm1lYPfB9yrXY97BF0pbJ3GAwN1XPKZXYfwJh1UiWhd5xhsi4VAY1xtVNzY2kaTQrMrRTxWUYrIy9ijRJVLZuidRO1rZG1_QDBgVCpYrETuxSZbtjk-oI95mgKZyUplrhvGF0IG-rUBZBImBrtG7lFGyUOEAm4cxMFWFscE0sXWt1sraW5TNjqgwz7Vg6shZYpW2CtWlldgxJDgwLMxghMYojskaVaU6KrTDHgdWF40bpjCYQlI6sJzuLM-KNzxAtNN2K7EMzoaygKrAxODiwlLZhI-qwlBltIAlunPLWhemqzuDE_MjcQKOhkoxtqUVMrM0kZTAUxVtHluXc0s5SvtA8zk4gHbFaG2tCFSYZNfcLmWvM-PE_Hsk7a5X3XP0wropcKYo0tbM3sLHwFlqUNzxGFw1ko2OVAkmkYv5Mr43MRLVIwNhYo1RXaC_ZAA==&g=AHwCHw-wwXwCHgHQHw-wpHgHQnQ3Aw-wpXQ3AA3ABHBw-wq3ABHBA3Dw-wq3DA3Cw-wr3CAHwAHAHw-wqHQHAH URL Cart Demo] by Zep
 == References ==