Quick post to help you start with pico-8 and haxe.

What is Pico-8 ?

If you never heard of it:

PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.

For more info, please check the official website.

How to use haxe for pico-8 ?

The easiest way to use haxe, is to use YellowAfterlife’s library in order to build lua code. Here is the Github repository.

I’ve created an empty project (as a gist) which you can find below :