The PICO-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker

1 · Scott Hanselman · Aug. 8, 2019, 11:13 p.m.
I love everything about PICO-8. It's a fantasy gaming console that wants you - and the kids in your life and everyone you know - to make games! How cool is that? You know the game Celeste? It's available on every platform, has one every award and is generally considered a modern-day classic. Well the first version was made on PICO-8 in 4 days as a hackathon project and you can play it here online. Here's the link when they launched in 4 years ago on the forums. They pushed the limits, as they ca...