Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
A demake of the X68000 Attack of the Deathstar game, complete with space/ground/trench missions. This version departs from the original with a less arcade/grinding gameplay.
In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.
Build a big automated factory on an isolated asteroid, sell your products and send rockets into space.
This is a short horror game that I developed for Fantasy Console Game Jam #3 using the Pico-8 fantasy console. This game is not suited for children or those who are easily disturbed. The objective of this game is to move around a desolated town and touch certain magic pillars. When you touch the pillars (it's a little finicky, so try to move around them a bit), a streetlight will come on near a lighthouse to signify your progress. You must light all six streetlights, at which point the lighthouse will light up. Touch the light of the lighthouse to complete the game.
Step back in time to an era when folk were real folk and race car steering wheels were real steering wheels. Mot's Grand Prix is a pseudo 3D Formula 1 racer inspired by Grand Prix Circuit, Continental Circus and a bunch of other 80s/90s racers. The game has 4 difficulty levels plus a practice mode to learn the courses without the pressure of racing.
Drill as deep as you can, but don't get crushed!
Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns is a puzzle game about pastries. The goal is to help Mai-Chan serve her sweet buns to customers at her bakery.
Send your worker ants to gather resources… amass an army of bugs to defend your queen... build your ant empire and conquer the lawn! A PICO-8 demake of Age of Empires II.
A retro scrolling beat'em up with a dark fantasy theme.
Make combos, bake cakes!
A demake of the game Dark Echo (Steam, iOS, Android) for PICO-8. You are trapped in a world of absolute darkness and can only see via visualized echolocation.
Jump down holes, fight monsters, and collect orbs as you make your way through cave formations and crumbling dungeons in this chaotic pico8 roguelike.
VVVVV but in all directions
A dungeon-crawler game built around a deck of 54 cards. This is a demake of Donsol by John Eternal and Hundred Rabbits in PICO-8.
Sokoblox is a hybrid of two classic puzzle games: Sokoban (the push puzzle) and Bloxorz (the rolling block puzzle).
A small platformer game about frog and crown!
A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.
This is a pico-8 port of Klax, mainly based on the Atari Lynx version, featuring: -100 levels -5 different backgrounds -warps -full klax combos and scoring system.
An explosive homage to the old-time multiplayer classic made with PICO-8! In this game, your goal is to drop bombs on the battlefield to eliminate all other players in time and be the last manbomber standing. The game can be played with up to 4 players battling each other. While in the 2-player mode, both players can use the same keyboard to control their manbomber, a controller for each player is required for all other modes. Any Controller which can be connected to your device will do!
For my very final prompt, I wanted to leave the students with one lasting idea: that I make games for enjoyment and want to do it as much as I can, even when I’m limited to a day or two’s work and 8192 Pico8 tokens. I hope that came across in this little game.
In 2021, the last time I taught the class, I didn’t want to hide the homework in the games. Instead I used the games as ways of presenting ideas. I made several, but I like this one, a reinterpretation of the fortune-telling minigame from Ultima IV.
More picross puzzles for PICO-8.