[Temjin]

PICO-8 is totally awesome. I've built a few simple games, and have been encouraging my daughter to make games. She can't program (yet!) but she can play with the sprite editor and sound editor :)

The limitations really make it easy to not worry and just make a dang game! For those of you worrying about cart size limits: if your game is too big for one cart, make it a two-parter :P Also, apparently you can load data from another cart while your game is running so you could just chain a whole bunch of them together.

Two things I am really excited for are support on Pi-style hardware, and mobile support for the web player.

[tmaxxcar]

My understanding is that with PICO-8 you can export to HTML5. If this is the case, (I haven't used this myself.. Yet.) why would you need direct support for mobile and Pi's? Couldn't you just change the dimensions of the app to fit mobile devices, and take advantage of the HTML5 support while on a Pi?

[Temjin]

You can run PICO-8 games on a phone browser, but there are no virtual buttons for touchscreens, yet.

Pi is just a bit too slow to run the JS engine, it needs to be ported to native ARM for full speed.