Tutorials

On this page you will find various tutorials by the community for TIC-80.
If you have written a tutorial you'd like to share, please add it to the list below.

Beginners Tutorials

Tutorial	Language	Author	Screenshot
Video platformer tutorial	Lua	Tamara O'Malley
A Step-by-step Introduction to TIC-80, Part 1: The Default Cart	Lua	Borb
A step by step introduction to TIC 80, Part 2: Workflow	-	Borb
Intro to Game Programming in TIC-80	Lua	@BearThorne
Tiny Code Christmas 2022	Lua	@lovebyteparty

Mechanics/Tools Tutorials

Tutorial	Language	Author	Screenshot
Sprites and Maps	-	@BearThorne
Handling Mouse/Touch Events	Lua	@BearThorne
Spawning and Managing objects	Lua	@BearThorne
Building A Menu	Lua	@BearThorne
Camera tutorial	Lua	@trelemar
Using mset() and mget()	Lua	@BearThorne
Simple Collision Detection	Lua	@BearThorne
Grid-Based Camera Movement	Lua	@BearThorne
Making Realtime Minimaps	Lua	@BearThorne
Title Graphics for Non-Artists	-	@BearThorne
Auto Tileset Mapping	Lua	@BearThorne
Level Generation꞉ Drunk Walk	Lua	@BearThorne
Level Generation꞉ Random Point	Lua	@BearThorne
Pathfinding꞉ BFS Algorithm	Lua	@BearThorne
Pathfinding꞉ GBF Algorithm	Lua	@BearThorne
Accessing carts from multiple computers	-	Borb
How to make Text Box	Lua	@ATS_xp
Splitting a TIC 80 project into multiple files	-	Borb
How to make Scene Manager	Lua	@ATS_xp
Console program example	Lua	@dcaillia

Full Games Tutorials

Tutorial	Language	Author	Screenshot
Simple Platformer tutorial	Lua	@trelemar
Snake Clone tutorial	Lua	@trelemar
Snake Clone by @trelemar using Wren	Wren	@clsource
Complete platformer tutorial	Lua	@btco_code
A retro FPS tutorial	Lua	@btco_code
Complete breakout clone tutorial	Lua	@digitsensitive
Breakout clone by @digitsensitive using Wren	Wren	@clsource
Building a racing game #1: Fun With Vectors	Lua	@msx80
Building a racing game #2: Driving Model	Lua	@msx80
Conway's Game of Life Tutorial	Lua	@triko88
Free movement Top down game	JavaScript	@00Her0
Raycast 3D FPS game	Lua	@wojciech-graj
Platform Engine	Lua	@morokiane
daves84 Nanobrd	Fennel	@parlortricks
daves84 Nanostack	Fennel	@parlortricks