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.
Cute retro racer. Go loop and loop in this relaxing animal racing game!
Scale ancient castle walls and dash over deadly pits. Every leap, wall jump, and dash costs you precious health. Navigate 16 challenging levels, find the key, and reach the exit before your health runs out.
Partake in what seems like a normal golf tournament. But watch out! Your competitors will stop at nothing to win.
A cute little metroidvania with challenging combat and witchcraft.
Stay alive in the arctic while climate change destroys your habitat! Eat fish to keep your hunger down or you will starve! Stay away from trash and don't fall into the water.
Explore an archipelago, encounter fellow explorers, and seduce and haggle with them to help you complete your map!
A bog standard minigolf game with 4-player pass-and-play multiplayer
A little puzzle game with a little puzzle twist.
A simple Marble Madness clone with three levels.
The picket line swells as factory after factory walk out on strike. For the exploited and the oppressed of the world, this is the moment -- but time is short. The arms of the state are mobilizing to halt your advance. Can you lead the workers to victory? A unique snake and sokoban puzzler with lots of clever mechanics in the mix.
Slimey, Jump! Is a tiny one-button platformer game with 28 levels and 4 bosses. It's meant to be a simple but challenging game that everyone can enjoy, regardless of their skill level!
A challenging puzzle game in which the player manipulates gravity in order to reach magical, green portals. Place colored boxes on buttons to open gates, avoid spikes, and more!
Everyone's favorite Watermelon Game for PICO-8. Drop fruits and merge fruits that are alike.
What do an excitable asexual pirate, a cultured genderqueer vampire, and a lesbian bird who may be at an important decision point in her life all have in common? They're all your friends, and they're all counting on you to make an absolute banger of a flag for them! In Flags for Friends, you play as a queer artist in a post-scarcity era and make custom pride flags for -- wait for it -- friends!
Pacman and Snake! Two Arcade Classics Mashed together!
Picross game with 12 easy (10x10) puzzles and 15 normal (15x15) puzzles.
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.
Infinimoes is a space filling puzzle game (like tangrams) involving a variety of polyominoes and sometimes an infinitely repeating space.
Pico Racer is a new and exciting racing game for your Pico-8 console. Overtake opponents and avoid obstacles! Drive through the night! Race your way through three continents! Enjoy geography that makes no sense!
To take root Among the Stars is a short narrative platformer. Play as Mei Hashimoto, one of the colonists send to an exoplanet to prepare it for the arrival of the rest of humanity. Explore the colony and its surrounding flora and fauna. Talk to your fellow colonists and send a message to earth via the relay station at the top of the nearby mountain.
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.