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Can you promote on r/pico8?

Allowed, with limits Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out.

A place to discuss, share, and collaborate all things PICO-8, the fantasy game console by Lexaloffle! Show off your work, talk about your favorite carts, and meet other Pico-8 enthusiasts! Let Your Cart Be Your Guide.

What its rules say about promotion

📏Post Guidelines
As long as the content is related to the PICO-8 fantasy console, you can pretty much post anything. This includes, but is not limited to: - Works in Progress (Updates can use the *WIP - Update *Flair) - Requests for Help (See Rule 4) - Game Promotion (Commercial or otherwise) - Blogs (General information you think is worth sharing with the community.) - Discussion (Something that promotes engagement with our community) - Self-Promotion in comments is encouraged within reason.
All 6 rules of r/pico8
  1. 👾 Post Flair
    Every post must have a flair attached to it. Importantly, the "I Need Help" flair shouldn't be permanently attached unless your question was unanswered. Once an answer is given that you find satisfactory, *please change the flair to "I Got Help - Resolved".*
  2. 📏Post Guidelines
    As long as the content is related to the PICO-8 fantasy console, you can pretty much post anything. This includes, but is not limited to: - Works in Progress (Updates can use the *WIP - Update *Flair) - Requests for Help (See Rule 4) - Game Promotion (Commercial or otherwise) - Blogs (General information you think is worth sharing with the community.) - Discussion (Something that promotes engagement with our community) - Self-Promotion in comments is encouraged within reason.
  3. 🚫 Ad Hominem Attacks
    If the primary reason you are posting is to call someone a bad name, you might be warned, but most likely, you'll get banned. > **DISCUSSIONS SHOULD NEVER DEVOLVE INTO PERSONAL ATTACKS ON A SINGLE PERSON**!
  4. ℹ️Help Us Help You
    The people here will go way above and beyond to help you, & questions are encouraged! But please offer some *visible effort* when asking for assistance. Such as: - Code snippets - Images - Use of the `export` feature which will export your code as an image - `F1` to screenshot - F3 to set a gif start point, and F4 to save when ready - Links Just do your best to explain so the first reply isn't a request for more context. Basically: **show that you've made an effort already**!
  5. 🕹️Other Fantasy Consoles
    This is a sub for *PICO-8 only*, but if you want to talk about all the PICOTRON, and ALL the Lexaloffle stuff, there are places for that.
  6. 🤖 No AI
    Pico-8 shows the brilliance of small, handcrafted projects. We want to focus on those projects and so posts that are entirely or obviously AI-generated are prohibited from the subreddit.

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