I'm starting a tutorial on how to make your a Shmup in Pico-8 from scratch! It's for complete beginners.

The goal is to make a basic Shmup first and then slowly turn it into an AWESOME shmup!

New episodes on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I will use this thread to keep a list of the episodes and post significant progress. Let's gooooo!

Episode 2 - Moving Stuff
Episode 3 - Controls
Episode 4 - Shooting
Episode 5 - Animation

You are amazing. Your videos are fun to watch and you're a great teacher. I am constantly recommending the Breakout series to people.
I'm going to try to start a Coding/Game Dev club at the school I (hopefully) will be teaching at next year, and I'm going to give them your vids to watch. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for the kind words. Good luck with the Coding Club! Crossing my fingers for you.

Update: Here is where we are at the end of Episode 5