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.
Foreverred is a mod of Celeste Classic developed in over a year. Starting as an update to the developer's first mod, Everred, it grew into a full sequel, and eventually into the biggest CELESTE Classic mod ever released (and possibly one of the biggest PICO-8 projects). The mod is over three times the size of the original game, and features brand new levels, mechanics, sprites, and music.
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!
A puzzle platformer about using friends to travel.
Do you love WarioWare? And do you love PICO-8? What we if we combine them into one game that you can play in your browser, right now? Includes 68 microgames made by 50+ developers.
Build a vast interstellar empire in 30 minutes flat.
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.
A parody of a flagship of COMPILE's dropping puzzle games. Made as part of a "one game a day challenge".
Boomby explodes (aka: jumps) every 2 seconds. Keep track of the timebar at the bottom of the screen, time your moves right. There are multiple routes to the pool, keep exploring if you get stuck or frustrated at a section of the map. Trampolines are a tricky, patience pays off. Try not to rush out of the first explosion after touching one. After the first explosion, the bounce rhythm balances out. There are 3 bomb "keys" (red, green, blue). These allow you to destroy colored bricks. Yellow Coins: $1, Platinum Coins: $5, Green Coins: $20 The only purpose of crouching is to move the camera down (and to look cute, actually).
make shaved ice for animals at the festival! (there's no ending! you just make shaved ice forever.)
My version of the Atari's arcade game Night Driver and Dr. Reiner Foerst's Nürburgring 1.
2018 7DRL You are an elven hunter on quest to defeat whatever beast has been terrorising the forest, armed with you bow and a couple of arrows you set out.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.
They say it started in a lab, but no one knows for sure. It doesn't matter anyway, you just need to survive another 10 minutes!
Cyclo 8 is a physics bike game, similar to the Trials series.
An idle crafting game inspired by games such as Forager and Minecraft made in PICO-8. Use your pickaxe to mine any and all materials you can find, and craft your way off the islands.
Massive open world pirate adventures!
Brendan Keogh's Putting Challenge is a Pico-8 golf game about the parts of golf that other videogames cut out. Put the ball on the tee yourself. After hitting the ball, manually walk to where the ball went before you hit it again. If the ball goes in the water, put down another ball! Remove your ball from the hole before moving on to the next hole. If you run out of balls, return to the Pro Shop to get more balls. This is a golf game with unprecedented interactivity!!
Look, walk, and talk like a duck!
A "One Level Concept" Demake of Contra for PICO-8!
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.