Alkhan
I’m a video game producer working in commercial game development, and in my free time I make small solo projects.
Lately, I’ve been especially drawn to PICO-8. I like its limitations and the way they force you to think about game design, visuals, and the core idea of a game all at once.
For now, I’m learning the tool through a simple exercise: taking games from the very beginning of video game history, recreating them in PICO-8, and figuring out what still works, what feels outdated, and how those ideas can be reimagined today.
A recreation of Auto Test (1954) as an educational driving simulator where the player watches a real-life driving scenario and tries to match the driver’s actions: steering, accelerating, and braking.
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A recreation of Bouncing Ball (1953) — one of the earliest known real-time graphical computer games.
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Russian checkers — a classic checkers variant with flying kings and mandatory captures.
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A recreation of OXO (1952) — the earliest known computer game to display visuals on a video monitor.
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I made a PICO-8 adaptation of "The Sumerian Game (1964)" — one of the earliest computer strategy games, designed by Mabel Addis.
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A recreation of Marienbad — an early Polish computer game from 1962, based on a variant of Nim.
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A classic game of English draughts, also known as American checkers — simple to learn, but built around surprisingly deep strategy.
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A simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe made as a small tribute to Bertie the Brain, one of the earliest known video games.
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I recreated Pong, but decided to add a bit more color and juice to the original formula.
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