Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
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.
Defeat the boss! Melt his heart... with your sword!
Look, walk, and talk like a duck!
You signed up for the biggest martial-arts challenge in history! In a gauntlet beyond example, contestants from all around the world face myriads of artificial monstrosities to find out who can deal with them performing the most stylish and efficient combos. There’s a twist though - you can only move in accordance with the hand of cards you’re holding. Ah, there’s nothing like the beautiful arbitrariness of game rules...
Cipher-8 is a brain-twisting minimalist arcade puzzler where you push numbers into a grid and manipulate them with randomly drawn special abilities. Blitz mode is all about frantic combo streaks. In puzzle mode you can analyze every move. Both modes scale infinitely in their difficulty.
Climb the tower of archeos and kill the evil sorcerer. An enhanced version was later released for itch.io and Steam.
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.
More picross puzzles for PICO-8.
A demake of the X68000 Attack of the Deathstar game, complete with space/ground/trench missions. This version departs from the original with a less arcade/grinding gameplay.
Enter the caves and try to find as much gold as you can before you perish to the dangers of the depth. Use your trusty whip in combination with bombs, ropes, and whatever you scavenge to get as far as you can.
VVVVV but in all directions
Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!
Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.
A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.
A game in which one is tasked to control a body.
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 small metroidvania in which you delve deeper into a planet, until you reach it's bottom...
A casual game where it's time to tidy up the solar system. Shove planets into each other to make bigger planets. No stress, take your time. Play strategically to trigger insane combos. Earn missiles to get out of tricky situations. A totally accurate simulation of celestial bodies.
A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
Picross game with 12 easy (10x10) puzzles and 15 normal (15x15) puzzles.
"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.
Survive being chased by a rolling snowball with a crafty penguin. Pickup, combine, and throw objects to delay the snowball’s inevitable descent! Throwing objects at the snowball chips away at its continually growing volume, while throwing them at other objects can craft tools to better suit your survival.