Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Defeat the boss! Melt his heart... with your sword!
Play Moss Moss to moss the world and find secrets.
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.
In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.
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.
Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through various short levels, and challenge yourself to keep up the combo's.
"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.
Infinimoes is a space filling puzzle game (like tangrams) involving a variety of polyominoes and sometimes an infinitely repeating space.
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.
An 8-bit homage to the original Superhot game created by three members of the Superhot Team.
A port of Another World game engine & assets to PICO-8.
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.
A game in which one is tasked to control a body.
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.
Mess with the Flock, you get the Glock. An Owl-some Roguelike Twin-Stick Shooter.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.
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 noisy, pixellated vampire platformer set in the Nevada desert. When Ysabel, a vampire living in Reno, finds her brother dead with a strange crucifix-like structure attached to him, she finds herself compelled to take revenge on the humans that murdered him.
A clone of PakuPaku — built using PICO-8, with no external sprites or assets. It’s basically a one-button game: Press any arrow key to flip your direction. Eat pellets. Dodge the ghost — unless you're powered up. Fast, focused, and minimal. Just pixels, logic, and a bit of chaos. Made as a small learning project.
A Pizza Tower Demake for PICO-8.
Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.