Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Brendan Keogh's Putting Challenge is a Pico-8 golf game about the parts of golf that other videogames cut out. Put the ball on the tee yourself. After hitting the ball, manually walk to where the ball went before you hit it again. If the ball goes in the water, put down another ball! Remove your ball from the hole before moving on to the next hole. If you run out of balls, return to the Pro Shop to get more balls. This is a golf game with unprecedented interactivity!!
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.
A Nuclear Throne demake for the PICO-8. You play as Suzie and Bob who are trapped in a merciless world and have to fight your way out!
After Marsho lent his game to a friend awhile back, Mo won't give it back now! It's up to you find the Warp Stars and take it back even if force is needed.
Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.
Gather resources and build a cosy little town!
A one level PICO-8 demake of Rez for the Dreamcast by Morgan Quirk.
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.
A Top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup.
A PICO-8 demake of the classic Konami arcade game Time Pilot (1982).
In Astropocalypse you take control of a hotshot meteor bent on destroying the galaxy. Use your directional pad to steer your meteor buddy and ram it into nearby planets in the current solar system. Once all planets are destroyed, it's time to go for the finishing blow... destroy the sun!
A SHMUP-Survivor-Roguelike mash where you must dodge, shoot, and upgrade in order to beat the final boss. Created along the LazyDevs academy basic shmup tutorial with its own twists on the theme.
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.
A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.
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!
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.
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.
To take root Among the Stars is a short narrative platformer. Play as Mei Hashimoto, one of the colonists send to an exoplanet to prepare it for the arrival of the rest of humanity. Explore the colony and its surrounding flora and fauna. Talk to your fellow colonists and send a message to earth via the relay station at the top of the nearby mountain.
A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.
Mess with the Flock, you get the Glock. An Owl-some Roguelike Twin-Stick Shooter.
In Knight of the Dead, the apocalypse is upon us. To run from the inevitable horde, one must consider their moves wisely, lest time, and the undead, catch up to them.
Sokoblox is a hybrid of two classic puzzle games: Sokoban (the push puzzle) and Bloxorz (the rolling block puzzle).