picoDeploy | Deploy Pico-8 Carts as Standalone Applications

picoDeploy is a TypeScript library. picoDeploy has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This project started because I found pico-8 and started building a small hackathon-style game, called Get Dis Money, for a local meetup called Code && Coffee, Long Beach. I was used to building games in Unity, but wanted to try something less serious and more fun. After showing the game to some friends, and writing more and more code for the game. I thought, what if I actually tried to write a deployable version of the game? Then I came across this article by josefnpat, and figured why not. I have been developing Javascript (Node.js) for about 4 years, and have built plenty of Electron apps in the past. However, I also wanted to build for mobile, (Android and iOS), and at the time pico-8 only deployed to web. I thought I'd take it even further, and commit the ultimate web developer sin . I have been using Ionic since when it was still in beta (before v1), and thought, why not just put Ionic inside of electron? I mean this whole project was all for fun, why not make the write-it-once-and-literally-deploy-anywhere wrapper for pico-8? And that is how we got picoDeploy.