Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map!
Provide the service of decorating and cleaning spaces so they spark joy!
Explore a mysterious and exciting dungeon filled with exciting mysteries without ever leaving the same room! Why would you change rooms when clearly this one has all the danger and excitement and danger that one could possibly need?!
Speedcat is a tiny 2D platformer where you play as a cat trying to pick up all 32 Speedcoins! Run, jump, and use the environment to navigate your way through the map as quickly as possible. Developed on PICO-8 by Fletch, the game is delightfully small and easy to pick up, with an estimated completion time in under an hour.
This is a series of works that came out of a residency carried out in early 2018 in Tokyo, with the Creator Ikusei project, which is supported by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. I adopted research techniques from ethnography and history, such as open-ended interviews and participant observation, and developed a method of representing the results of this research in a playful and interactive form that draws heavily from familiar interaction design patterns such as the tamagotchi-style virtual pet and role-playing game multiple-choice dialogue systems.
The poop gods have found out about the disaster you brought upon them in your previous mission and they are furious! They have located you on earth and took you to a hidden cave somewhere on the planet "Pooparium" and the only way to escape and get back home is to play their game and show them why you are the best poop collector out there! This time they are making your life harder with obstacles and more challenging rooms so go out there and show them how fast you can shame them and clear their rooms to escape back home! Feedback is always welcome, enjoy!
The Networked Empathy Bank (tm) is a space where they upload and de-fragment the world's jumbled consciousness. Remna-Bot-2k finds and collates remnants and fragments of memory from across TNEBs archive zones, recreating person specific empathy archives. Its subject today is AG1970TQQ+. What does AG1970TQQ+ have to say about the different spaces and communities they occupy in their life and why are other Remna-bots trying to subvert this project?
The battle for Eternia is in your hands! A Masters of the Universe themed Barbarian remake for Pico-8. Side with He-Man and his allies or Skeletor and his minions in this new take on the classic Barbarian sword fighting game. Battle 8 levels against increasingly difficult foes or play against a friend. You have the power!
Journey from the Upper Atmosphere through futuristic dystopian cyberscapes, as a Rain Drop.
Feed the Ducks is a short casual platformer game with pixel graphics.
A compilation of different Roc Studios games made in PICO-8.
A tiny metroidvania platformer where you play as a cube. You gain more and more abilities as you progress. There are multiple environments, some collectibles, and you can find a boss fight at the end.
You play as a bird with a baseball cap on a search to find a new floating island after their first one crumbles. Instead of jumping off platforms, you flap your wings in mid air to propel yourself in the direction you're aiming.
Spin a web, catch bugs, eat 'em for points! The player controls a spider that spins a physics-y web to catch bugs that fly in from the background.
try to get some rest, don't miss your stop
How fast can you destroy the Grandmothership and all of her cores? This game was heavily influenced by the third level of R-Type.
Enjoy a sunny day at the golf course. Improve your putting skills and take the cart for a spin.
In Dust Bunny, you are a little bunny with a big job - sweep up the dust!
Cactus blocks are falling for some reason. You, a little frog named frog, have to jump and dodge out of their way. Set them up in lines (Tetris style) in order to clear them off of your land.
It's a Pico-8 Battle Royale! Well sort of anyway... Thrown on to a big island chock full of weapons, it's every man/cat/alien for themselves! Play either you vs 19 others or watch as 20 AI controlled opponents duke it out amongst themselves.
30+ levels packed with cheese, what more could a mouse want?
In Cave of Cards, you clear dungeons by making poker hands.