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.
Infinimoes is a space filling puzzle game (like tangrams) involving a variety of polyominoes and sometimes an infinitely repeating space.
Cute retro racer. Go loop and loop in this relaxing animal racing game!
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 simple endless game that made during SGDQ 2020.
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.
Put a golf ball in your vagina and kegel it out! Neo Pussy Masters is a golfing game about transfemininity. Only on the PICO-8!
A first-person grid-based oldschool mini dungeon crawler inspired by Wizardry/Ultima, created in PICO-8.
More picross puzzles for PICO-8.
A puzzle platformer about using friends to travel.
A juicy remake of Breakout/Arkanoid with 15 levels and a high-score list.
This is a short but sweet game about trekking through the woods to make a special delivery.
In this game there are markers called 'picostops' scattered throughout the map which drop random items whenever you have defeated a few wild monsters. 'Picostops' also replenish and revive all the monsters in your party. Catch new monsters with picoballs.
Gather resources and build a cosy little town!
Nobody knows why - it's just always been this way. Our chance of survival is to absorb all the Green Orbs floating around, while avoiding certain death by touching the Lava - all before the time runs out!
Can you survive long enough to face the Lich King?
To a Starling is an indie fantasy platformer. Use your teleportation abilities to whirl through the rocky wastes and to find brighter stars.
A 5-10 minute long visual novel made in PICO-8 about growing up and moving on.
Help Atom Girl defeat waves of enemies trying to stop her as she races through space. Use her ability to change into a ship and back to blast her foes into stardust.
make shaved ice for animals at the festival! (there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)
A minimalist clicker-toy, where you press the button a million times.