Popular games built on game engine PICO-8

10.08.2015

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

19.05.2016

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

20.03.2018

Build a vast interstellar empire in 30 minutes flat.

09.04.2022

More picross puzzles for PICO-8.

23.06.2018

A demake of the X68000 Attack of the Deathstar game, complete with space/ground/trench missions. This version departs from the original with a less arcade/grinding gameplay.

04.03.2021

Slime Fantasy: the search for the lost sword is a game made on Pico-8, a retro fantasy console with purposeful limitations and low-resolution to simulate an 8-bit era console. Designed in a minimalist way, this game aims to simplify the gameplay by highlighting harmless solid objects from objects that the player must pay attention to, dangerous things, and platforms that are not safe.

12.05.2019

This is a tiny adventure based directly on Fez, by Polytron Corporation. It is a fan work, and was not made in collaboration with or endorsed by them. Fuz features a total of 8 distinct areas. Its visuals, mechanics, and puzzles are all based off those in the original.

30.07.2022

Dodge, evolve, survive in this survival shmup. Help vampire hunter Liz Belmont to survive until dawn. Except dawn will never come.

01.05.2019

Stab your friends! Evade, fish for counterhits, and chip away at your opponent in head to head combat. Inspired by Nidhogg and footsies.

17.06.2019

Slimey, Jump! Is a tiny one-button platformer game with 28 levels and 4 bosses. It's meant to be a simple but challenging game that everyone can enjoy, regardless of their skill level!

31.10.2025

In Lil Kobold's Big Stew, you play as a little kobold who needs to collect special ingredients for his big stew.

31.12.2021

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.

13.07.2023

An action puzzle game with the concept of "recording and replaying movements."

08.03.2017

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

12.12.2020

Pilot an adorable, customizable biplane! Explore the world! Deliver mail from the skies!

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30.06.2025

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.

15.01.2020

A simple endless game that made during SGDQ 2020.

22.10.2023

A Pizza Tower Demake for PICO-8.

29.10.2016

Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!

31.12.2018

This is 2018’s assignment, a diabolical puzzle. You’re a monk who has forgotten where his cell is in the monastery, and who must walk the labyrinth in order to remember it. If you can find his room, you’ll find out what the assignment prompt is. I was a bit worried the students would be unable to find the prompt hidden in this one, but about half of them got there eventually. (The rest were expelled from the university.) 2018’s class was 100% Pico-8 so it seemed appropriate that the prompt game should be in Pico-8 too. Pico-8 is so great for prototyping — as a case in point, it builds to a single JS and HTML file which loads quite happily in the browser from a local file, so you don’t get annoying permissions or crossdomain problems.

31.12.2023

In this 2D platformer with golf controls, you must aim, charge, then launch yourself around a dangerous abandoned power plant in order to save the worms!

27.08.2020

A PICO-8 demake of iii, a little "catroidvania" about a one-eyed cat leaving his comfort zone. Explore underground caverns, gain vision of other dimensions, help the inhabitants, and expand your horizons.

02.10.2020

Fight enemies and dodge hazards to find the exit!

28.09.2018

Embrace is a very short experimental game about embracing things that happen in life.