Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.

A demake of Inscryption for PICO-8. Your goal is to defeat Leshy.

make shaved ice for animals at the festival! (there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)

This is a small game, that asks the important question... Are you a pro enough gamer to defeat the God of rock paper scissors?

Driftmania is an arcade time trial racing game. Your goal is to get the fastest possible time on each of the 15 challenging tracks

Steps is a small Minit-like game where instead of dying from time, you die after a certain amount of steps. Explore the cursed island, solve puzzles, and find the hidden coins. Try to run away from the island by finding the Icarus wings as it is the only way to escape the cursed island.

Pico Snail is a Pico-8 game inspired by the musician Snail's House You play as Snail-Chan, and are tasked with defending the Dream castle! You can run, jump, thwack enemies, and use stars you collect for special powers!

A Nuclear Throne demake for the PICO-8. You play as Suzie and Bob who are trapped in a merciless world and have to fight your way out!

A little puzzle game with a little puzzle twist.

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.

A fast-paced arcade brawler, centered on scoring combos by knocking enemies into each other.

Take the cursed dagger, use its power to dispatch the horrors from this hellish place, score the best time! A fan game based on Devils Daggers for PICO-8.

Everyone's favorite Watermelon Game for PICO-8. Drop fruits and merge fruits that are alike.

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.

Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!

A "One Level Concept" Demake of Contra for PICO-8!

A demake of Castlevania in PICO-8

Select numbers that add to ten, to remove them from the board. How high can you score in just 2 minutes?

Hit the slopes, turn by turn! Play cards, clear gates, and don't crash!

Jump, Roll, Hop and Dive your way through sharp caves to rescue your friends.

Get back to your nest and finish your nap in this retro-inspired platformer! Pip is a baby pelican that is startled from its sleep during a storm and must find its way back home. Collect the feathers scattered around the island until you have enough strength to flap back to your nest

An unofficial demake of Babe is You made in Pico-8, which contains 32 levels.

Soar to freedom in Feathered Escape, a platformer where you, as a trapped bird, navigate challenging environments, overcoming obstacles and adversaries to reclaim the open skies.

In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.