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.
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.
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.
Slow down time, fire off tons of bullets and defeat dopey ghosts. That is what Sly Panda is all about!
Parodic Point n' click Die n' retry adventure
A Pac-Man clone for PICO-8. You control Pic and your goal is to eat all pills to win the maze.
In dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.
For my very final prompt, I wanted to leave the students with one lasting idea: that I make games for enjoyment and want to do it as much as I can, even when I’m limited to a day or two’s work and 8192 Pico8 tokens. I hope that came across in this little game.
A cute little metroidvania with challenging combat and witchcraft.
A PICO-8 demake of Street Fighter II.
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.
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!
An action puzzle game with the concept of "recording and replaying movements."
Put a golf ball in your vagina and kegel it out! Neo Pussy Masters is a golfing game about transfemininity. Only on the PICO-8!
Snekburd is a Pico-8 demake of Snakebird, by Noumenon Games, with new puzzles and mechanics! Navigate the snakebirds to eat all the fruit and head through the portal to complete the levels on each island. The first island's levels should serve as a quick tutorial to new players or a refresher for returning ones. The full game has about 70 levels in it, ranging from a little tricky to absurdly hard, and is available for free (donations enabled with Noumenon Games' permission).
Reach the finish if you can, there's a lot of gold before it!
A game in which one is tasked to control a body. Master the unorthodox movement system and collect as many balls as you can.
Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.
This is a short but sweet game about trekking through the woods to make a special delivery.
You are a blob bunny. Your goal? Touch every tile! Enjoy 60 bite sized puzzles across 5 different worlds in this casual puzzle game.
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.