Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Send your worker ants to gather resources… amass an army of bugs to defend your queen... build your ant empire and conquer the lawn! A PICO-8 demake of Age of Empires II.
This is a mouse controlled real-time inventory management game, think of it as Attache Case from Resident Evil but things are happening at the same time as you're trying organize it. It is a demake of the original game by Alex Sian aka Shoutscion.
Make combos, bake cakes!
A demake of the game Dark Echo (Steam, iOS, Android) for PICO-8. You are trapped in a world of absolute darkness and can only see via visualized echolocation.
Jump down holes, fight monsters, and collect orbs as you make your way through cave formations and crumbling dungeons in this chaotic pico8 roguelike.
VVVVV but in all directions
Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.
Defeat the boss! Melt his heart... with your sword!
A game in which one is tasked to control a body.
In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.
Get pigment droplets, dodge the deadly razor discs, paint all tiles
A short, Sokoban-style puzzle game with many doors, but only one key.
When you shoot rock, gem fall out. Get gem. More gem got without shoot = more combo point. Get 10000 point to become master of shoot rock. This was an entry for PICO-1K Jam 2022. The whole game fits in exactly 1024 bytes of compressed PICO-8 code.
A retro scrolling beat'em up with a dark fantasy theme.
Dodge bullets and fight off the militarized police force defending a corporate toxic sludge pipeline.
In this 2D platformer with golf controls, you must aim, charge, then launch yourself around a dangerous abandoned power plant in order to save the worms!
A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Mai-Chan's Sweet Buns is a puzzle game about pastries. The goal is to help Mai-Chan serve her sweet buns to customers at her bakery.