Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Tutankham is a combination of the maze, action and shoot 'em up genres. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all that kill the player on contact. The explorer can fight back by firing lasers at the creatures, but he can only cover the left and right directions. The player is also endowed with a single screen-clearing "flash bomb" per level or life. Finally, each level has warp zones that teleport the player around the level, which enemies cannot use. To progress, the player collects keys open locked doors throughout the levels, searching for the large exit door. Optional treasures can be picked-up for bonus points. Each level has a timer; when it reaches zero the explorer can no longer fire lasers, and once a level is cleared the remaining time is converted to bonus points.
Create combo chaos & face the consequences
A retro futuristic anti-gravity racing game!
A turn-based asteroids / snake / roguelike for LD41. VYPERSPACE is an asteroids game, you shoot asteroids to break them into smaller chunks before you can destroy them. Sometimes there is ore inside. VYPERSPACE is a snake game, you eat ore to grow longer and need to avoid running into your own tail. VYPERSPACE is a roguelike, it is a keyboard-driven turn-based tile-grid game of delaying permadeath by emergent hazards that only move when you do.
Sokoblox is a hybrid of two classic puzzle games: Sokoban (the push puzzle) and Bloxorz (the rolling block puzzle).
A retro-styled railway management strategy game!
A metroidvania with a unique perspective mechanic. Find your missing clothes and confront your tiny brother...
It's winter. Let's go sledding. Ride the slope until you stop or crash.
You have nine lives. Make them count. Ninja Cat Remewstered is a challenging fast-paced platformer where a lone cat seeks to prove himself to the big bosses of the world. Starting with only shuriken on hand, he will find tools throughout his journey, laying claim to gold while he's at it! ...But stay aware! There are a variety of relentless enemies and hazards that will stand between him and his goals.
30+ levels packed with cheese, what more could a mouse want?
Everyone's favorite Watermelon Game for PICO-8. Drop fruits and merge fruits that are alike.
The classic 16-bit-era action puzzle game returns again - enhanced and remastered. Pico de Pon brings favorite characters from across the PICO-8 library together for intense block-swapping battle.
Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!
Parodic Point n' click Die n' retry adventure
Revenge is a dish best served... Pixelated!
A Pac-Man clone for PICO-8. You control Pic and your goal is to eat all pills to win the maze.
Select numbers that add to ten, to remove them from the board. How high can you score in just 2 minutes?
In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.
The world is overflowing with Poop! You are summoned to help and collect it all! This game has 32 levels, each one has a countdown of only few seconds to clear and collect all of the scat laying around. A simple platformer made with PICO-8 where all you need to do is move left and right and jump from the start point to the exit door after everything is collected.
A cute little metroidvania with challenging combat and witchcraft.
A PICO-8 demake of Street Fighter II.
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.
A game about having a little bit, but not too much.