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.
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.
PicoCross is a nonogram puzzle game for the Pico-8 Fantasy Console.
In Prince of Prussia, you sneak up on a whole bunch of nazis.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.
The evil Chiro Empire has captured all of the other Dragon Eggs! It's your job to save them!
Pröng is a mutant game of pong. Also a techno-thriller dating sim.
Grab all 30 time pieces in this short platformer, based on the game A Hat in Time!
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.
Fly your Arwing to victory in this PICO-8 demake of Star Fox. Features 3 levels: Cornerea, Venom and Fortuna.
A fan game heavily inspired by the early Mega Man series.
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."
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!
A minimalist clicker-toy, where you press the button a million times.
Play solo or together in a mashup of tennis, volleyball, squash, and wallball where the only rule is: two bounces on one side is a point for the other.
A sequel to Marballs, now with verticality, orbs and jump pads!
In Astropocalypse you take control of a hotshot meteor bent on destroying the galaxy. Use your directional pad to steer your meteor buddy and ram it into nearby planets in the current solar system. Once all planets are destroyed, it's time to go for the finishing blow... destroy the sun!
A rhythm-based game in the style of Dance Dance Revolution for PICO-8.
You are a star that jumps.
Solve puzzles in dimly lit corridors and uncover the story of an ancient king gone mad.
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.
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.