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.
Build a big automated factory on an isolated asteroid, sell your products and send rockets into space.
How far will you go? Take a roadtrip along peaceful country roads, as you fly through an ever changing sky, in this cosy, atmospheric, arcade game, with a retro aesthetic and soundtrack to match.
An action puzzle game with the concept of "recording and replaying movements."
Hakai is a momentum based aerial fighting game that takes cues from Dragonball Z. Win three rounds to beat your opponent. If the timer runs out, whoever has the lower amount of health wins, and if the players' health are equal it's a draw.
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.
A PICO-8 demake of of the PSP game Every Extend Extra, an arcade game about detonating your ship, causing colourful chain reactions in the enemies, granting you points.
Try to get the frogs to the top of the screen to fed, by playing cards
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.
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).
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.
A PICO-8 demake of Street Fighter II.
Reach the finish if you can, there's a lot of gold before it!
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!
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!
More picross puzzles for PICO-8.
A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Picross game with 12 easy (10x10) puzzles and 15 normal (15x15) puzzles.
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.
Snacks and spikes are falling from the sky! You, Aspen, must run around dodging the falling spike balls and scoffing the delectable foodstuffs.