PicoCo Clicker

Sat, 17 May 2025 07:15:46 UTC

picococlicker

by malsarthegreat

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PicoCo Clicker 🍪

A bite-sized idle empire, baked fresh in PICO-8

What is it?

PicoCo Clicker is my year-long love letter to Cookie Clicker and the wider idle-game genre—hand-crafted inside the delightfully tiny, 128×128-pixel world of PICO-8. I’ve polished it until it gleams, squeezed every token I could out of the fantasy console, and wrapped it all in crunchy retro charm. It’s not “perfect,” but it’s exactly the flavorful little treat I hoped to serve.

Why you might lose track of time playing

Core Loop Why it’s delicious
Click → Earn cookies → Upgrade → Repeat The classic feedback loop, tuned for quick dopamine hits and long-haul AFK sessions.

Features

Upgrade Bakery – Boost clicks, ovens, grandmas—you know the drill.
Prestige & Heavenly Shop – Reset for golden “Cookie Shards,” then unlock meta-upgrades that bend the rules.
Dynamic Cookie Rain – Watch the sky fill with cookies; the faster your CPS, the wilder the storm.
Milk Meter – Fill your glass to raise your click multiplier. Hit a milestone and—boom—white milk turns to decadent chocolate.
Animated Sprites – Fluttering crumbs, bobbing milk, shimmering prestige icons; all squeezed into PICO-8’s 8×8 sprite grid.
Auto-Save & Quick-Load – Never lose progress; pop in for a minute or an hour.
In-Game Help – Pause → Help for a crunchy FAQ, hotkeys, and tips.
Token-Tight Optimizations – Custom number formatter, sprite multiplexing, and byte-savvy coroutines to dodge PICO-8’s 8k-token ceiling.

Behind the oven door

PICO-8’s memory limits meant cramming 2-byte variables where 4 would’ve been comfy, inventing a mini-UI library that reuses sprites on the fly, and faking particle effects with palette swaps. Many of those tricks were sparked by the amazing PICO-8 community—thanks for the inspo!

Controls

Z / N / ⬅️ – Click the cookie
X / M / ⬆️ – Open the Pause / Upgrade menu
Arrow Keys – Navigate menus

(Controls can be remapped in the PICO-8 options.)

Final crumbs

I built PicoCo Clicker because I adore idle games and retro hardware. Now I can grind cookies on my tiny handheld during coffee breaks—and so can you. Hope it keeps your fingers busy and your dopamine meters full! 🎉

Aside

If you would like to help me with some smooth tunes to add to the game, that would be greatly appreciated! I am not musically inclined in the slightest so everything I tried just was not hitting haha.

CoCo Clicker V1

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:48:30 UTC

CoCo Clicker V1

Cookie Clicker Demake - Malsarthegreat

cococlickerv1

by malsarthegreat

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This is my first Pico-8 Game! Love this fantasy console and I love clickers so I thought I would take a stab at a classic!

It is fairly basic at the moment with only 5 upgrades and 1 sfx but I am pretty pleased with the UI so far!

Plan on continuing work on this but this is what I have for now!

Features so far:

Cookie clicking!
5 Upgrades
1 sfx
cartridge saving and loading (persistent storage)
cookie animations
milk animation
Simple/usable UI

A few known bugs:

Alchemy upgrade cost is wonky
once you hit 50k cookies, it turns negative and eventually you start over.

Things I want to add:

Large cookie in center of screen to show more player interaction.
sound effects and music
more upgrades
meta upgrades
multiplier based on milk level
more polish (give it some juice!)

malsarthegreat [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

PicoCo Clicker

PicoCo Clicker 🍪

What is it?

Why you might lose track of time playing

Features

Behind the oven door

Controls

Final crumbs

Aside

CoCo Clicker V1

CoCo Clicker V1

Cookie Clicker Demake - Malsarthegreat

Features so far:

A few known bugs:

Things I want to add: