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.
For my very final prompt, I wanted to leave the students with one lasting idea: that I make games for enjoyment and want to do it as much as I can, even when I’m limited to a day or two’s work and 8192 Pico8 tokens. I hope that came across in this little game.
Try to get the frogs to the top of the screen to fed, by playing cards
Pico Racer is a new and exciting racing game for your Pico-8 console. Overtake opponents and avoid obstacles! Drive through the night! Race your way through three continents! Enjoy geography that makes no sense!
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.
Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through various short levels, and challenge yourself to keep up the combo's.
A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.
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.
A minimalist clicker-toy, where you press the button a million times.
A sequel to Marballs, now with verticality, orbs and jump pads!
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.
A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
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.
A puzzle platformer about using friends to travel.
You are a star that jumps.
Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.
A precision puzzle-platformer aimed at speedrunners that turns one of the oldest videogame tropes on its head. In other games, dying is bad, and your remaining lives are just chances to try again... right? No, not on Harold's Bad Day. Finish as quickly as possible, while trying to save as many Harolds as you can for a perfect run.
A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and uncover its secrets.
Steve Johanson has disappeared and his girlfriend Sally Franklin has hired your detective agency to locate him. Even before you get on the scene there are signs that maybe this isn't just a simple missing persons case. Can you crack it? Explore Anteform Valley and its settlements, talk to its residents, search desks and files, and build up your skills as you collect clues to figure out what really happened to Steve and maybe even prevent it from happening again. Anteform is a horror / sci-fi detective story RPG in the style of the older Ultima games (Ultima I, Ultima II, Ultima III, Ultima IV, & Ultima V) as played on the Commodore 64 and 128 computers (although thematically it fits in better with the Worlds of Ultima games). Just like the original Ultima games, it includes a world view, enterable towns, and 3D dungeon displays. More importantly, it is a fully playable (and winnable) game with its own backstory, plot, setting, and characters.
These busy birds will eat almost anything that falls into their gullet -- what will you feed them? They have their preferences, but people food beats bird food any day of the week! A difficult, chaotic arcade game with local multiplayer support!