Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.

A one level PICO-8 demake of Rez for the Dreamcast by Morgan Quirk.

In Porter, you play as Yug who may teleport and jump. If Yug teleports into a wall, Yug dies. If Yug jumps into spikes, Yug dies. The goal is to use Yugs teleportation and jump to get to the yellow coin in each level.

A Top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup.

A PICO-8 demake of the classic Konami arcade game Time Pilot (1982).

What's at the bottom of the pit? Could be anything! Could be everything! I have to find out!

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 dreams, there are people you often meet, towns you often visit, and places you often die. Wake up in the morning and repeat.

This is a tiny flight simulator based on a Cessna-172R with a G1000 glass cockpit made with PICO-8.

Colette the mouse runs her own fromagerie after working years as an affineur for other restaurants. But it's a big world for a small mouse, and she's got to make a name for herself. She wants to curate the best cheese in the world. Will her cheese be CHEDDAR than the rest? Or will it BRIE no GOUDA?

A fan game heavily inspired by the early Mega Man series.

Intense and minimalistic Beat'em up made for Pico-8.

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.

Dusk Child is an adventure-platformer about a young archaeologist looking for her home.

A turn-based asteroids / snake / roguelike for LD41. VYPERSPACE is an asteroids game, you shoot asteroids to break them into smaller chunks before you can destroy them. Sometimes there is ore inside. VYPERSPACE is a snake game, you eat ore to grow longer and need to avoid running into your own tail. VYPERSPACE is a roguelike, it is a keyboard-driven turn-based tile-grid game of delaying permadeath by emergent hazards that only move when you do.

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 Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.

A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.

Can you bring the wolf, the goat, the cabbage, the hunter, the gun, the monkey and the washing machine on the other side!?

Enjoy a sunny day at the golf course. Improve your putting skills and take the cart for a spin.

Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.

A tiny challenging arcade shoot’em up where you shoot down quirky aliens to save your planet. Evade bullets, shoot enemies, get upgrades, survive through challenging waves to defeat the final boss, "The Monke".

Gather resources and build a cosy little town!