Popular games built on game engine PICO-8
A hardcore platform game for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
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!
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Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.
Build a vast interstellar empire in 30 minutes flat.
A noisy, pixellated vampire platformer set in the Nevada desert. When Ysabel, a vampire living in Reno, finds her brother dead with a strange crucifix-like structure attached to him, she finds herself compelled to take revenge on the humans that murdered him.
A clone of PakuPaku — built using PICO-8, with no external sprites or assets. It’s basically a one-button game: Press any arrow key to flip your direction. Eat pellets. Dodge the ghost — unless you're powered up. Fast, focused, and minimal. Just pixels, logic, and a bit of chaos. Made as a small learning project.
A Pico-8 platformer about hiking around a mountain, made in three days for Celeste's third anniversary.
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!
Hit the slopes, turn by turn! Play cards, clear gates, and don't crash!
Get back to your nest and finish your nap in this retro-inspired platformer! Pip is a baby pelican that is startled from its sleep during a storm and must find its way back home. Collect the feathers scattered around the island until you have enough strength to flap back to your nest
This is a bubble-bobblish platformer game for 1 or 2 player. Mist and Grim must travel through the 22 levels and defeat the overlord.
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.
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.
A faithful tribute that captures every little detail of the original game developed by Nintendo in 1984. Test your reflexes in this PICO-8 demake of the NES classic!
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.
You are a blob bunny. Your goal? Touch every tile! Enjoy 60 bite sized puzzles across 5 different worlds in this casual puzzle game.
You’re a sky-island delivery worker delivering mail to all the nearby islands. Everything runs smoothly until the letters suddenly aren’t being delivered. Find all of the letters and deliver them to their recipients. Maybe they’ll give you something as a thank you.
An isometric bird-based demake of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series.
My version of the Atari's arcade game Night Driver and Dr. Reiner Foerst's Nürburgring 1.
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.
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!
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.