Picotron: a fantasy workstation for making pixelart games, animations, music, demos and other curiosities

Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation for making pixelart games, animations, music, demos and other curiosities. It has a toy operating system designed to be a cosy creative space, but runs on top of Windows, MacOS or Linux. Picotron apps can be made with built-in tools, and shared with other users in a special 256k png cartridge format.

Picotron website

Picotron is very similar to PICO-8, but more powerful and with a few additional features - it's actually made by the same people as PICO-8. It also contains a small, toy' operating system to serve as a workspace, everything makes use of Lua, and any applications made with it can be shared using a special 256k PNG cartridge format. It's currently in alpha, and cost $11.99, and uses the early Minecraft model of a one-time purchase for access to all future updates. The FAQ has tons more information.

It looks incredibly neat. I don't have much use for it, but I'm interested to see what people with actual skills will make with it.