Hey everyone!

As you may know, I'm building a dedicated pico8 console, and today I'm showing off some concept art for physical pico8 cartridges! We are planning on working with pico8 game developers to get their existing games published to a physical cartridge and as well as develop exclusive titles for the Pex Console (with the ability to use extra hardware features on the console)! We will handle things like designing the packaging and game manuals, providing playtesting, as well as doing distribution and sales for the game. I really do want to preserve the pico8 spirit of openness and sharing too, blank cartridges for you to flash your own games are also in the works!

I'm curious on what you guys think about this? Would you be willing to pay for a physical copy of a pico8 game? If you are a game developer is this something you are willing to be part of (if so dm me)? Every bit of feedback helps a ton :D

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Hey again!

I've recently assembled the raspberry pi powered pico8 game console that I have been showing off, and I'm proud to show that it is fully capable of running splore now! We still have quite a lot of tweaks to make before launch, but it's great to see it coming together. Now if you would excuse me as I go spend a couple of hours playing games...

I can't embed videos here, so checkout the reddit post for an actual gameplay video :))

Hey everyone!

I'm back again with more progress on my handheld console for pico8! We finally sourced a crispy square LCD display, started development on our own pico8 games launcher, and have made the switch to linux to support native pico8 by incorporating the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Currently we only have renders and 3D printed prototypes but we are in the process of sourcing the parts and manufacturing the first couple of beta units. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we would be able to show the assembled console playing games!

If you will like to keep up with development, come chat with us on our discord (https://discord.gg/KzFn8Vb4qw), or join our mailing list (https://pex-labs.com/). See you all soon!

In the second part of my blog (first part here), I show off my process designing and assembling a custom PCB that is able to run a simple PICO-8 demo! You can read it here (medium link)

If you like what you are seeing you can join the waitlist (https://pex-labs.com/) and hop on our discord (https://discord.gg/KzFn8Vb4qw) to stay updated on development!

blog post for early development process: https://medium.com/@getpexlabs/pex-labs-building-my-own-game-console-for-pico-8-48a87d7cd404

Hey all! I'm working on a handheld console for PICO-8 with support for physical cartridges! If you like what you are seeing you can join the waitlist (https://pex-labs.com/) and hop on our discord (https://discord.gg/KzFn8Vb4qw) to stay updated on development!

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