TIC-80 Core

Libretro Cores
#1

TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. The website features a bunch of games you can play directly online.

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The TIC-80 libretro core has been pushed to the upstream repository. There’s a DAT file to allow scanning and indexing games in a playlist, there’s a few sample games in the Content Downloader, and I’ve also uploaded all the cover art as thumbnail boxarts.

Hope to do a highlight real video of some of the higher rated TIC-80 games soon, played through the libretro core. Making this forum post as a place to talk through any ideas or thoughts on TIC-80.

Have you used TIC-80 before? What would you like to see from it?

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#2

I played a few games just to give it a whirl, and it seems awesome. I didn’t know of any real standout games to try, though.

I had seen some forum posts awhile back about being able to convert pico8 games to run on it, as well. Is that something that people do?

#3

Definitely possible to port some PICO-8 games over. I’ve seen a couple ports around, just need to move the sprites, switch the API, the map/sound, and you should be good… Some of differences between the two are:

  • TIC-80 has a higher resolution
  • TIC-80 supports more languages than just Lua (JavaScript, Wren, etc)
  • TIC-80 is Open Source
  • TIC-80’s community is smaller, so there aren’t as many tutorials and examples around

Overall, TIC-80 and PICO-8 are very similar. I’m a big open source advocate, so I do have a bias towards TIC-80.