HIVE PICO-8 Tutorial

HIVElings! Check the usual Trello board(s) for the assignment associated with the tutorials!
HIVE Programming Glossary: for quick definitions of important words and jargon. If this is your very first time dipping into coding, have this page open!
HIVE PICO-8 Cheat Sheet: download the pdf referenced in the videos all the time.
Lessons
- 2a: functions & the coordinate system
- 4a: loops & conditional statements
- 4b: interactivity
- 5a: layers to understanding programming
- 6a: map, sprites & palette swapping
- 6b: simple timers & palette cycling
- 7a: array tables, modulus & stretching sprites
- 7b: drawing scrolling sine waves with for & time
- 7c: flipbook animation with modulus & time
- 7d: building tools & objectifying dudes with tables
- 7e: adding complexity to your tools
- just a few more to come!
Other important links
- Lexaloffle - makers of PICO 8
- PICO-8 Documentation
- PICO-8 Wikia - repository of lots of spicy undocumented behaviors and examples
- Programming in LUA - deeper dive into Lua, for serious big bois
Resources
- PICO-8 Zines - great getting started tutorials and scripts
- PICO-8 Book - more great tuts and demos
- Demo-Man Tutorials - learn about trigonometry, vectors, how to lerp, and how to calculate collisions
- Lazy Devs Academy Youtube Channel - make a roguelike or a breakout along with dude and learn about lots of things, great breakdown source for new features in PICO-8
- Easing/Animation Curves cheat sheet/library - by ValerADHD
- How does 3D projection work? (in 2 and a half minutes) - old school Doom-style “fake” 3D by ValerADHD
- Understanding Memory in PICO-8 - thorough explanation about binary, hexadecimal & manipulation of memory from Lazy Devs
- Text Styling with Control Codes - vid explanation from Lazy Devs, in-depth reference lives here.
- Tutorial on bitwise math, and its uses in PICO-8
- lucatronica - a prolific tweetcarter
- lorenschmidt - makes fun maze algorithms
- OuzzGame - explains game math concepts through animated gifs under hash tag #pixcode
Music Tutorials
Games
- #tweetcart on Twitter - a hashtag community for tweet-sized pico8 cart demos
- Itch.io - games tagged #pico8