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<p>PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen resolutions, and memory constraints.</p>
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<p>The PICO-8 dev environment uses Lua and is focused on being accessible to developers while offering depth for complex projects.</p>
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<p><a href="https://x.com/johanpeitz">Johan Peitz</a> is a games industry veteran and developer extraordinaire, having created dozens of games across many platforms. He&#8217;s an expert in PICO-8 development, and joins the podcast to talk about creating games for the console.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Joe-Nash-.jpeg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="15581" data-permalink="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/10/12/observability-with-eduardo-silva/lee-6/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/lee.png?fit=218%2C258&ssl=1" data-orig-size="218,258" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="lee" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/lee.png?fit=218%2C258&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/lee.png?fit=218%2C258&ssl=1" class="size-full wp-image-15581 alignleft" src="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Joe-Nash-.jpeg"" alt="" width="218" height="258" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.</p>
<p><a href="http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SED1776-Pico8.txt">Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.</a></p>
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