In the next 30 minutes, you're going to become an actual game developer 🎮 - we're going to make a remake of the classic scary maze game, in the amazing PICO-8.

Here's what it looks like 👇

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=53863#p53862

Setup 🔧

All you need for this setup is a copy of PICO-8, which you can get here. PICO-8 is a game development suite which is delightfully simple, satisfying and quick to work with - you can write code, draw characters and maps, along with making music, all in the same software which weighs only a few megabytes ⚡

PICO-8 works on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and even Raspberry Pi 🖥️ - it is totally worth the $15!

Exploring ⛰

Nice - you got PICO-8! When you launch it, you might see this unfamiliar screen with a blinking red cursor 👇

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/efdafb55-0a7e-4ae7-9007-9303c1010517/Untitled

This is the PICO-8 console - but you won't need this for now, so go ahead and press esc on your keyboard. You'll see something like this:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/bad3936a-500b-4180-b620-77cbc8beb29e/Untitled

Go ahead and click on each of the icons on the top right of the screen. In order, they represent:

1. Code: Logic that your game runs continously
2. Sprite: Draw the characters in your game
3. Map: Make a map for your game(background) with sprites