mogwaipoet [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=88479 Gordy and the Monster Moon <p>Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized, Halloween-themed Zelda-like about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.</p> <ul> <li>Explore the strange and varied biomes of the Monster Moon!</li> <li>Find upgrades and unlock shortcuts to help you explore even better!</li> <li>Defend yourself from monsters with a cobweb you found on the ground.</li> <li>Ask dad for help if you get stuck!</li> <li>What <em>is</em> in Lander B?</li> </ul> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=160395#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_gordy_and_the_monster_moon-1.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=160395#p"> Gordy and the Monster Moon</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=160395#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p>When I put this game on Steam in 2023 I wanted to make it available to the Pico-8 community for free, but I didn't want <em>everybody</em> to be able to play it for free because then who would buy it? The compromise I came to was to make the cartridge available for download, but not upload it to the BBS.</p> <p>Well, it's a year and a half later, and whatever sales were going to happen have <em>basically</em> happened already, so I'm putting it here to make it easier to find and play. You can still go buy it on Steam if you want!</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=146497 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=146497 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:08:00 UTC Basil Returns! (Winter Solstice greetings) <p>Basil's out sniffing around and scattering dandelions again. Oh look, there's a cave. I wonder what's inside?</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=159561#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_basil_returns-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=159561#p"> Basil Returns!</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=159561#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p>I made the original <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139768">Basil's Adventure</a> in 2016 as a Christmas present for my wife. I had just found out about Pico-8, and I thought it'd be fun to make a simple exploration platformer. She loved it.</p> <p>Since then I've done a bunch more Pico-8 projects, including two more wintry games intended as greeting cards for my friends. They've all been weird little design experiments, like, <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/642020/Gordy_and_the_Monster_Moon/">Gordy and the Monster Moon</a> is an attempt to do a game that feels like Zelda with none of the usual Zelda interactions (no sword, no bow and arrow, no hookshot, no boomerang, no bombs, etc.), <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139772">Maximum Overdrive 2</a> is a non-combat stealth roguelike, <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=88479">Look Who's the Shining Two!</a> is a mashup of Zelda and Sokoban, &amp;c.</p> <p>My game designer friends eat this stuff up -- of course they love the weird game design experiments. And I'm proud of all these projects. But, for example, my wife just can't bring herself to care about any of them. They're too hard and too weird. This year, I decided to go back to basics, make a game that was just simple casual fun, based on a time-tested mechanic.</p> <p>Basil Returns is <em>basically</em> just Basil's Adventure again with a bigger map and better art. My pixel art has leveled up a lot since 2016 -- though I've never made a game with this much art in it, and it was exhausting. I hope I can go back to making ugly games after this!</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=146222 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=146222 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:28:51 UTC Look Who's The Shining Two! <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=158067#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_shining2-8.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=158067#p"> Look Who's The Shining Two! v1.1</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=158067#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p>Look Who's The Shining Two! follows the adventures of Adult Danny Torrance, who has just gotten a job at the Overlook Hotel but is stuck in the haunted hedge maze on his first day. Can you commute to work?!</p> <p>This game was created for the PiCoSteveMo game jam, with music by kittenm4ster and technical support from pancelor. Thanks to BaseCase for hosting PiCoSteveMo!</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=145599 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=145599 Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:31:29 UTC Bouncy's Winter Solstice Ride <p>Hi, all! I've been making Pico-8 stuff for a while and putting it in various places but I decided to finally start uploading it here and trying to be part of this community.</p> <p>This is Bouncy's Winter Solstice Ride, another greeting card game I sent to my friends and family over the holidays last year. It's a game about sledding around and delivering presents to all the animals in your village.<br /> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139913#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_bouncys_winter_solstice_ride-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139913#p"> Bouncy's Winter Solstice Ride</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139913#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139773 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139773 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:41:37 UTC Maximum Overdrive 2 <p>Hi, all! I've been making Pico-8 stuff for a while and putting it in various places but I decided to finally start uploading it here and trying to be part of this community.</p> <p>This is Maximum Overdrive 2, which I made for <a href="https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo">PiCoSteveMo</a>, a game jam themed around the works of Stephen King. It's a non-combat roguelike in which you're trying to survive in a future where self-driving taxis have paved the entire planet.<br /> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139912#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_maximum_overdrive_2-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139912#p"> Maximum Overdrive 2</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139912#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139772 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139772 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:40:18 UTC Hop's Big Adventure in the Gift Dimension <p>Hi, all! I've been making Pico-8 stuff for a while and putting it in various places but I decided to finally start uploading it here and trying to be part of this community.</p> <p>This is Hop's Big Adventure In The Gift Dimension, which I made in 2022 as a Christmas greeting card game for my friends and family. It's a mash-up of Glider and VVVVVV.<br /> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139911#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_hopmas_in_the_gift_dimension-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139911#p"> Hop's Big Adventure in the Gift Dimension</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139911#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139771 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139771 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:39:37 UTC Basil's Adventure <p>Hi, all! I've been making Pico-8 stuff for a while and putting it in various places but I decided to finally start uploading it here and trying to be part of this community.</p> <p>This post originally contained all four games I'm uploading but it looks like that's not how you make games available on the BBS, so I'm editing it and creating separate posts for each of them.</p> <p>This is Basil's Adventure, which I made in 2016 as a Christmas present for my wife. It's a platformer in which you play a dog exploring a cave.<br /> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139903#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_basils_adventure-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139903#p"> Basil's Adventure</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=88479"> mogwaipoet</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=139903#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139768 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139768 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:17:52 UTC