samuel-b8/picolove

PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D

PICOLOVE

Implementation of PICO-8 API for LOVE

On github at: https://github.com/picolove/picolove

Requires Love 0.10.x

What it is:

• An implementation of PICO-8's api in love

What is PICO-8:

• See http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

What is Love:

• See https://love2d.org/

Why:

• For a fun challenge!
• Allow standalone publishing of PICO-8 games on other platforms
• should work on mobile devices
• Configurable controls
• Extendable
• No arbitrary cpu or memory limitations
• No arbitrary code size limitations
• Betting debugging tools available
• Open source

What it isn't:

• A replacement for PICO-8
• A perfect replica
• No dev tools, no image editor, map editor, sfx editor, music editor
• No modifying or saving carts
• Not memory compatible with PICO-8

Not Yet Implemented:

• Memory modification/reading

Differences:

• Uses floating point numbers not fixed point
• sqrt doesn't freeze
• Uses luajit not lua 5.2

Extra features:

• ipairs(), pairs() standard lua functions
• log(...) function prints to console for debugging
• assert(expr,message) if expr is not true then errors with message
• error(message) bluescreens with an error message
• warning(message) prints warning and stacktrace to console
• setfps(fps) changes the consoles framerate
• _keyup, _keydown, _textinput allow using direct keyboard input
• _getcursorx(), _getcursory() allow access to the cursor position