Pico Tower

Office Tower Simulator

Pico Tower Sim

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Pico Tower Sim

by RTB

Cart #tomuhikipi-3 | 2022-01-11 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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What is this

Pico Tower is a tower simulator in the vein of a scaled-down SimTower or Project Highrise.
Build offices and provide needed services to earn money. Grow your tower and unlock more features as your tower grows in height. Experiment with layouts to optimize travel times for your tower's occupants.

Tips

• Most rooms have an entranceway indicated by a yellow doorway. When building make sure this side is rotated to be accessible.
• If a meeple is travelling, they aren't making money! Optimize travel times to make sure offices stay profitable.
• If a meeple cannot find a nearby service they will eventually leave the building to meet their need elsewhere.
• If maintenance requests are not addressed in a timely manner it will flash RED and reduce office income!
• Check your finances tab. Upkeep expenses are paid at 10:00PM. Your cash can (and probably will) go negative at times!
• Maintenance staff comes in at 4:00AM. Office workers at 6:00AM. Workday ends at 6:00PM
• Leave space for expansion. One stairwell or elevator wont suffice forever

Meeple thoughts

Sometimes thought bubbles will appear over meeples' heads

	[8x8]

Destination was full (Will leave tower after a few retries)

	[8x8]

No nearby bathrooms

	[8x8]

No nearby cafeteria

	[8x8]

Could not find path to a destination

Commentary

This is my first PICO-8 cart. I predictably underestimated the token/compression limitations and had to cull many features I had planned, such as more services, office types, transport modes, and save files. Nonetheless I'm satisfied with the result as a tiny tower builder given the limitations.