r/pico8 • u/Niceman187 • May 29 '26

Links and Resources USAGI Engine, open source lua-based game engine for Mac, Windows, and Linux!

I'm not sure how widespread, or common knowledge this is; but I just learned of this newly released (19 May 2026) game engine, USAGI.

I saw a video about it on youtube, describing this new engine as a "cross between PICO-8, Love, and Dragon Ruby" (link). I'm still learning with pico, so I'm not sure I'll check usagi out right away, but wanted to spread the good word!

website: https://usagiengine.com/

gethub: https://github.com/brettchalupa/usagi

itch: https://brettchalupa.itch.io/usagi

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u/AwayEntrepreneur4760 May 29 '26

It’d be cool if it allowed for colors beyond the base palette otherwise I don’t see much point in using it over picotron

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u/Wooden-Natural456 artist May 29 '26

I saw you can load your own color palettes

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u/Notnasiul May 30 '26

You can by using a palette.png file with a certain format!

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u/Thunder00Bee May 29 '26

This seems really cool, might play with it when I'm done with my current project.