🎮 Game Week

July 6–10 · make a real video game with PICO-8
Monday play first, code second

🕹️ Play & Break Day

Play great games free at pico-8-edu.com. Then press Esc on a favorite, find its code, and change something — gravity, colors, speed. Break it. Fix it.

Tuesday – Thursday Menu pick one each morning

🗺️ Adventure Game Tutorial

MBoffin's top-down adventure — build a little Zelda-style game, short videos, zero experience needed.

🐱 Nerdy Teachers First Game

nerdyteachers.com — made by actual teachers. Step-by-step to a finished cave-diving game.

✏️ Paper Studio

Screen-tired? Design sprites and levels on graph paper. Real game studios do this first.

🃏 Wildcard: Type install_demos in PICO-8 and explore the built-in sample games.
📚 Reading block: The Phantom Tollbooth — Milo's heading toward Digitopolis. Fitting, for Game Week.
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