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Hi all,

I'm considering using Pico-8 to make a music video. I do have coding experience. Just a couple questions before I decide to pony up the $15.

  1. Is Pico-8 appropriate for short videos, as opposed to games? Have you seen this?

  2. Is there a demo version I can try before paying? I looked around but couldn't find one.

  3. Is there a way to trigger a Pico-8 program concurrently with a separate (i.e. non-8-bit) audio track?

  4. My video is based on the periodic table, and I don't think I can quite fit the whole thing width-wise with 128 pixels. I understand the 128x128 is a hard limit. Does anyone know of something similar that's a bit (no pun intended) bigger? 256x256 would definitely be enough, even 192x192.

Thanks very much,
Xave

P#42978 2017-07-31 22:03 ( Edited 2017-08-03 16:20)

1- Yes, kinda. Not videos, but demoscene style demos like https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=4050
Those usually require coding knowledge beyond the basics, though.

2- Nope

3- Probably, but it won't be trivially easy.

4- Here's a list of other fantasy consoles that I'm aware of:
PICO-8
TIC-80
Pixel Vision 8
LIKO-12
Voxatron
PX8
Tako 80
VectorBoy

One of those will probably help.

Why don't you use something like Processing or Cinder?

P#43000 2017-08-01 10:50 ( Edited 2017-08-01 14:50)

pico8 doesn't seem the right tool if you're not already into all its quirks. if you're more at ease with lua you could try löve, otherwise notegui's suggestion is very sound.

P#43001 2017-08-01 11:30 ( Edited 2017-08-01 15:30)

Thanks to both of you, I really appreciate it. Having a couple of specific suggestions from real people is infinitely more helpful than Googling around in the dark ;)

P#43005 2017-08-01 13:36 ( Edited 2017-08-01 17:36)

If you want to go the python route instead, pygame could work.

But you'd probably have more luck (and require less programming) if you looked into Renpy. It's designed around visual novels, but it has its own animation/transformation scripting language that you may be able to use to accomplish what you want. There also aren't hard limits on resolution, file types/sizes for assets, etc. that you're going to find in most fantasy consoles.

HOWEVER, it doesn't have a web player. It exports to the 3 major OS branches and Android/iOS, but not web. So to share it in a browser you'd have to.. I don't know, capture a recording of the animation somehow.

P#43016 2017-08-02 11:56 ( Edited 2017-08-02 15:56)

if your looking into a pixel art music video perhaps look into creating an animation in Aseprite (which I believe has a demo).

P#43028 2017-08-03 12:20 ( Edited 2017-08-03 16:20)

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