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.
What happened? Where are you? And more importantly, how are you going to get out?
A PICO-8 demake of the classic Konami arcade game Time Pilot (1982).
Steps is a small Minit-like game where instead of dying from time, you die after a certain amount of steps. Explore the cursed island, solve puzzles, and find the hidden coins. Try to run away from the island by finding the Icarus wings as it is the only way to escape the cursed island.
Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through various short levels, and challenge yourself to keep up the combo's.
A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.
Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!
This is a small game, that asks the important question... Are you a pro enough gamer to defeat the God of rock paper scissors?
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!
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.
make shaved ice for animals at the festival! (there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)
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.
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.
"From Rust To Ash" is roguelike auto battler where your items are your build. Fight, Loot, Scavenge. Arrange your items to benefit from each other, store items in your backpack for future synergies, scrap what you don't need to increase your health. Do all that you need to survive the encounters before you.
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.
Picopicotron is a toy desktop environment built with PICO-8. Use the mouse to control it like a standard computer from the nineties. Includes a Pyramid card game and a version of minesweeper.
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 Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.