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.
A museum slated for demolition has a ghost problem, and you have been asked to address it.
Sebi 16 packs sixteen curated singleplayer games into one charming collection: metroidvanias, puzzle games, platformers, a roguelike, and even a deck builder. Built with love in PICO-8!
In this game there are markers called 'picostops' scattered throughout the map which drop random items whenever you have defeated a few wild monsters. 'Picostops' also replenish and revive all the monsters in your party. Catch new monsters with picoballs.
Snacks and spikes are falling from the sky! You, Aspen, must run around dodging the falling spike balls and scoffing the delectable foodstuffs.
A short, Sokoban-style puzzle game with many doors, but only one key.
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.
Winter is coming (as every year actually...), time for some skiing! Enjoy going down the slope, trying to beat your previous track record or freeriding skills! Grab coins or perform tricks for some extra time bonus - watch out for off track hazards!
A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
A PICO-8 demake of iii, a little "catroidvania" about a one-eyed cat leaving his comfort zone. Explore underground caverns, gain vision of other dimensions, help the inhabitants, and expand your horizons.
Picross game with 12 easy (10x10) puzzles and 15 normal (15x15) puzzles.
You have nine lives. Make them count. Ninja Cat Remewstered is a challenging fast-paced platformer where a lone cat seeks to prove himself to the big bosses of the world. Starting with only shuriken on hand, he will find tools throughout his journey, laying claim to gold while he's at it! ...But stay aware! There are a variety of relentless enemies and hazards that will stand between him and his goals.
A minimalist clicker-toy, where you press the button a million times.
Try to get the frogs to the top of the screen to fed, by playing cards
Jump down holes, fight monsters, and collect orbs as you make your way through cave formations and crumbling dungeons in this chaotic pico8 roguelike.
A 5-10 minute long visual novel made in PICO-8 about growing up and moving on.
A doomed cowboy runs through the desert, pursued by a mystic worm.
My version of the Atari's arcade game Night Driver and Dr. Reiner Foerst's Nürburgring 1.
An open-world rpg for Pico-8, where you can catch, train, and battle with over 100 varieties of monsters! Gameplay is performed by navigating the overworld until you encounter either a wild Eidolon or an opposing trainer, which transitions the game to battle mode. Battle mode uses turn-based mechanics across a grid to allow you to fight - until all foes are defeated!
A Top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup.
Build a vast interstellar empire in 30 minutes flat.
This is a PICO-8 port of Stealthscape, a top-down momentum based speed game that has you pitted against a wide variety of enemies and obstacles while you try to quickly make your way to the portal at the end of each stage.
Sunrose.p8 is a demake of Sunrose featuring little sunroses. Z + left and right arrow keys.