Kelp on Mars
Survive 1 week harvesting kelp on Mars while providing for your hungry Martian family by collecting the long light green tips of the kelp and fixing the kelp harvesting nets with the darker green kelp "blades" . You need 40 tips a day to nourish your family and 10 blades of kelp to repair each broken net—and if you break all three nets in a day that's the end of your run. What you don't use on one day rolls over into the next.
Tend well to your farm—what you harvest one day will be reflected in the next. A sprout, a short light green tip, will grow into a tip on the following day but if you harvest the holdfast the kelp won't grow again.
Controls
- Accelerate — ➡️
- Decelerate — ⬅️
- Move kelp net — ⬆️ ⬇️
- Start / restart at game over — ❎
Game Jam
This was an entry for Eggjam #18 — Sourcing Locally 🏡🌱.
Thanks
This is the sixth game I've completed and released, I hope you enjoy it!
Huge thanks to Gruber for the beautiful game music which is the "Pastoral" track from Pico-8 Tunes Volume 1.
Thanks to Lexaloffle for making PICO-8, it was a pleasure to work with, as always.
A big thank you to the Eggplant Show community who inspired me to make another game and have given great feedback along the way.
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Some Rain
Watch rain drops fall and splash at the bottom of the screen to the susurrating sound of rain falling.
No controls or interaction—just some rain.
Options
The sound can be toggled in the pause menu as can the wind effect.
Why
What started as a quick experiment with particles turned into a little simulation which is more little than simulation.
Miscellanea
This cart was originally called "Just Rain" but I appear to have subconsciously copied that from the existing, and rather wonderful, Just Rain by ROBYSOFT. So now it is called "Some Rain".
Tephra Toil
As a vulcanologist of the future you have an advaned system for scanning tephra as it is thrown from the volcano.
In order to complete your research you must scan all the types of tephra and escape the volcano with your precious research.
Controls
- Movement — ⬅️ ➡️
- Dive — ⬇️ (for fun!)
- Start / restart at game over — ❎ / X
Get close to the rising tephra in order to scan it, the more you scan the closer you get to completing your research and furthering humanity's understanding of hot flying rock.
Game Jam
This is an entry for the sixteenth Eggplant Community Game Jam #16 where the theme is "Falling Deep".
References
The word "tephra" refers to the fragmented material thrown from volcanic eruptions.
> Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tephra
Thanks
This is the fifth game I've completed and released, I hope you enjoy it!
Huge thanks to Gruber for the beautiful game music which is the "Nostalgia" track from Pico-8 Tunes Volume 1.
Thanks to Lexaloffle for making PICO-8, it was a real pleasure to work with.
A big thank you to the Eggplant Show community who inspired me to make another game and have given great feedback along the way.
License
All source and assets are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Mixed Allegories
You are deep within Plato's allegorical cave where the forms have been found - it's your mission to retrieve them and establish Kallipolis.
Grab the forms with your claw by pressing ❎ when they are in reach.
Pass through fuel rings to top up your rapidly depleting fuel and avoid the dangers of the cave.
Controls
- Movement — ⬅️ ➡️
- Grab / Start — ❎ / X
Game Jam
This is an entry for the third Eggplant Community Game Jam #3 where the theme is "Keep it short". The source for the cart can be be found in this pico8-carts repo.
References
The mixed allegories alluded to in the title are:
- Allegory of the cave - The allegorical cave is the setting of the game's levels, each is randomly varied according to some general parameters. This is definitively not symbolic—it's an actual cave.
- Theory of forms - Each level has 4 collectable forms (in 3 variations) which determine the outcome for Kallipolis. Problem of universals solved, they're just collectables in games.
- Plato's five regimes - The five regimes outlined by Socrates in The Republic are used for the end–of–level scoring. This author does not endorse aristocracy as the highest level of government.
Thanks
This is the third game I've completed and released, I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks to Lexaloffle for making PICO-8, it was a real pleasure to work with.
A big thank you to the Eggplant Show community who inspired me to make another game and have given great feedback along the way.
Go fast deliver things
In a world where delivery is plentiful and the times are good the workers, that is the robots, are thinking that perhaps things could be better. While performing deliveries on time you also have an opportunity to make change in the world, the choice is yours, deliverer.
Controls
- Movement — ⬅️ ➡️
- Jump / Start / Retry — ❎ / X
Your current deliveries are listed in the top left, you need to visit those house numbers to make each delivery.
Game Jam
This is an entry for the second Eggplant Community Game Jam #2 where the theme is "Good Times with Bad Robots". The source for the cart can be be found in this pico8-carts repo.
Thanks
This is the second game I've completed and released, I hope you enjoy it!
Huge thanks to Gruber for the beautiful game music which is the "Morning Shower" track from Pico-8 Tunes Vol. 2.
Thanks to Lexaloffle for making PICO-8, it was a real pleasure to work with.
A big thank you to the Eggplant Show community who inspired me to make another game and have given great feedback along the way.
Void Seeker
You wish to become one with the void, but you're running out of time—you need to fall through the gaps on each floor and make it to the void before it closes. The deeper you go the sooner the void closes and the path becomes more challenging, but fortunately you'll have some power ups along the way. The goal of the game is to get to the deepest level as the void has no end.
Controls
⬅️➡️ - Movement
❎ - Jump/Start/retry
Features
- The void is rife with randomness—no two levels are the same!
- Spiffy sound effects, they'll never get old
- High score tracking, your PB is displayed on the start screen
Gaps
- Normal (grey) — Fall at regular speed
- Fast (green) — Fall fast then move
- Slow (purple) — Fall slow then move slow, less so if you jump in
When falling from one gap if you go through another that will speed your fall and give you a speed boost on landing!
Items
- Key — Get all the keys on the floor to unlock the gaps
- Time extend — The void lingers a little longer
Power ups
As you wish to travel light you can only hold one power–up a time, but fortunately they aren't uncommon in your journey.
- Warp — Walls lose all meaning
- Grav Belt — More jumps and improved slow descents
- Speed shoes — Move faster, stop slower
Obstacles
- Launcher — Gives you boost … back up a floor
- Bouncer — Gives you a little push
Game Jam
This is an entry for the inaugural Eggplant Community Game Jam where the theme is "Going Into The Void".
Thanks
This is the first game I've completed and released, I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks to Lexaloffle for making PICO-8, it was a real pleasure to work with.
A big thank you to the Eggplant Show community who inspired me to start with and have given great feedback along the way.
