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.
A demake of Donkey Kong in PICO-8 starring Minio and Dinky Kong.
Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.
A retro futuristic anti-gravity racing game!
A museum slated for demolition has a ghost problem, and you have been asked to address it.
Jump down holes, fight monsters, and collect orbs as you make your way through cave formations and crumbling dungeons in this chaotic pico8 roguelike.
Everyone's favorite Watermelon Game for PICO-8. Drop fruits and merge fruits that are alike.
Parodic Point n' click Die n' retry adventure
A short, Sokoban-style puzzle game with many doors, but only one key.
This game was made in 2 weeks for the Acerola Jam 0. It's a puzzle game wher you have to make the withe with the rgb color in boxes and other forms.
A simple, cute retro version of classic Chess made in Pico-8. Full implementation of the Chess rules with a juicy interface and some basic AI to play against.
More picross puzzles for PICO-8.
A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
You are a worm. Worms love eating fruit, even though it makes them poop. But this is a good thing: poop becomes flowers and flowers bring much joy to the world. Eat fruit, avoid poop, flowers increase the score multiplier, eating flowers makes the multiplier smaller.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.
You wake up in the middle of a spooky town trying to find your way back home. Help the citizens of this weird town and they will open paths for you.
A PICO-8 demake of of the PSP game Every Extend Extra, an arcade game about detonating your ship, causing colourful chain reactions in the enemies, granting you points.
For 2019 I ran two prototyping classes – one in Pico-8 for the undergraduates and a graduate version with no platform constraint (which generally means they work in Unity). So this year I hid the same prompt in two different interpretations of the same idea. I tuned the Pico-8 game for the youthful reflexes of the undergraduate class, but I did not count on the fact that none of them would have ever played a bullet-hell game, and as a result, only one of them was able to reach the end and find out what the assignment was. I instructed that person that they could keep it a secret if they wanted to.
A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.
Grab all 30 time pieces in this short platformer, based on the game A Hat in Time!
Cherry Bomb is a basic arcade Shoot 'em up game (Shmup) reminiscent of Space Invaders or Galaga. Pilot your red spaceship to blast your way through 9 waves of attacking aliens.
A 5-10 minute long visual novel made in PICO-8 about growing up and moving on.