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.
Reach the finish if you can, there's a lot of gold before it!
You wake up in the middle of a spooky town trying to find your way back home. Help the citizens of this weird town and they will open paths for you.
Move a worm to carve the object across 17 thrilling levels!!
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.
A 5-10 minute long visual novel made in PICO-8 about growing up and moving on.
An open-world rpg for Pico-8, where you can catch, train, and battle with over 100 varieties of monsters! Gameplay is performed by navigating the overworld until you encounter either a wild Eidolon or an opposing trainer, which transitions the game to battle mode. Battle mode uses turn-based mechanics across a grid to allow you to fight - until all foes are defeated!
Help Atom Girl defeat waves of enemies trying to stop her as she races through space. Use her ability to change into a ship and back to blast her foes into stardust.
Cherry Bomb is a basic arcade Shoot 'em up game (Shmup) reminiscent of Space Invaders or Galaga. Pilot your red spaceship to blast your way through 9 waves of attacking aliens.
Dodge is a fast paced reflex game. Survive as long as possible by avoiding enemies, patterns, and boost your score using various powerups to obtain the highest highscore. Customize your games by changing the game's color palette, or its gameplay settings, such as the difficulty, disabling powerups or patterns. Every gameplay setting combination has its own highscore.
A runner/platformer where play as a samurai trying to save your cat from demons. Your character runs automatically while you control your jumps and attacks.
My version of the Atari's arcade game Night Driver and Dr. Reiner Foerst's Nürburgring 1.
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.
Look, walk, and talk like a duck!
Grab all 30 time pieces in this short platformer, based on the game A Hat in Time!
An 8-bit homage to the original Superhot game created by three members of the Superhot Team.
Sokocode is a programming sokoban "Zach-Like" where you take on the role of an intern at the newest box-centered enterprise, BoxTopic.
A PICO-8 demake of Hitman Go for the demake jam including levels from the original.
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.
An unofficial demake of Babe is You made in Pico-8, which contains 32 levels.
Can you survive long enough to face the Lich King?
This is a one button dueling game. Hold to run, let go before passing to attack. Whoever hits hardest wins.
A demake of Super Mario Bros. for PICO-8 featuring 5 levels.