Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.
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.
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.
Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.
A port of Another World game engine & assets to PICO-8.
A Pac-Man clone for PICO-8. You control Pic and your goal is to eat all pills to win the maze.
2018 7DRL You are an elven hunter on quest to defeat whatever beast has been terrorising the forest, armed with you bow and a couple of arrows you set out.
Yep, just a normal day. Nothing weird is going to happen at all.
Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!
An aquatic action game. Swim sword first into the deep to destroy the evil at the heart of the ocean.
A Metroidvania without an interconnected world or character upgrades.
A shoot’em up game with bite-size levels.
Move the dice to destroy all other dice in every level if your value is higher.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.
Ever wonder what Devil May Cry would be like if the entire game was in the air? Climb as high as you can while making sure to be stylish! Rack up kills and altitude while avoiding falling to your death!
A simple tennis game for PICO-8. Play against AI or with up to 4 players in local multiplayer.
A fan-made, fun-sized version of Samurai GUNN 2.
Reach the exit avoiding enemies chasing you in turn based system!
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.
A one level PICO-8 demake of Rez for the Dreamcast by Morgan Quirk.
Look, walk, and talk like a duck!
Climb an impossible tower.
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.