Syrian-American gamedev & Arabic localizer.
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ArSpr is a set of 2 utility functions that let’s you write Arabic text in Pico8. You input a Latin text and it will transliterate it to Arabic. I made it because I want to make localized Pico8 games, and to practice writing my own implementation for Right-to-Left text and Arabic Shaping.
ArSpr’s specifications:
2 sprites 510 out of 8192 tokens ~30% of compressed space No dropped frames when filling the screen |

Usage is easy, but slightly different from the regular Print() function in Pico8; you have to initialize a variable to contain the text data then draw it. Here’s an example:

