Pico 8 Game
Over the past 2 weeks we started using a brand new game engine called Pico 8. We are using the educational version which is free and is based in the web browser
The coding language used in called LUA which is a very lightweight and easy to type scripting language. It is most commonly used to make game engines and for modding games
When we go to the website it opens up our terminal, this is where we save and load our game files.
We load files by dragging them from our folders onto the terminal
Press ESC to get into the editor
Our game has 3 main functions, init to initialise our game, update which updates each frame of our game and the last is draw which draws the graphics for each frame on the screen
We then setup the
Once we had the code setup, we designed our characters on the sprite editor screen.
Have a look at the screenshots below along with the link to my file
