try-pico8

Trying out PICO-8. All kinds of practice projects here.

Local Dev Env

Dir Structure and Files

• %USERPROFILE%/pico8carts - root_path, subdirs: git repos, bbs, demos, games
  • robocopy_backup_repos.bat - backup git repos to Google Drive home without .git directory
• .../Google Drive/pico8 - install location
  • /home - home
  • /desktop - desktop
  • pico8.bat - start script

pico8.bat:

start "pico8" /B pico8.exe -home ./home/ -desktop ./desktop/ -root_path %USERPROFILE%/pico8carts/ %*

Editor

Visual Studio Code with pico8vscodeeditor plugin.

TODO:

• Lua formatter plugin?
• Lua lint plugin?
• BBS carts go to pico8/home/bbs instead of pico8carts/bbs!!

CI/CD / Release Pipeline

TODO! https://github.com/apa64/try-pico8/issues/1