A simple snake to train for Pico-8.
Using music from Pico-8 Tunes vol. 1.

• Update 1 : solved the memory limit issue while determining apple position at high score.

My second game! It's a virtual pet/clicker type game. Take care of your pet slimes! Feed them delicious bowls of rice! Watch them get bigger! Let them make money for you! Get more slimes! Watch them hop around! Watch them stick to walls! Buy bigger areas for your slimes to play in! Watch them hop around some more! Endless fun!

Controls:
Use the arrow keys to move the camera in larger areas and navigate the shop. Press Z to open or close the shop. Press X to get coins or buy something in the shop.

Tips:
Coin production increases every time a slime eats. Coin production increases even more if the slime gets bigger after eating.

slime clicker virtual-pet

This was fun to make. I added a bunch of juicy stuff I usually do in Unity just for fun. The code is heavily commented and more verbose than it necessarily needs to be, because I wanted to make it easy to pull apart for people less familiar with making stuff in PICO-8. I'll keep adding stuff over time, but figured I'd release it as it is so far.

My highest score so far is 232. What's yours?

UPDATE: Added a possibility of slimes dropping a heart if you blow them up.

A month ago I posted a thread on reddit/r/me_irl promising to make a game based off whatever the top comment was - this was the top comment:

"a SSB esque fighting game between all the frog memes (Wednesday, Dat Boi, Pepe, Kermit, etc.) and name it "Me too thanks""

This is my first game in pico8! any suggestions would be great.

fcjam

Here's my Raspberry Pi 3, which I'm using as a dedicated Pico-8 machine. I also added a 3D printed Pico-8 logo.

pico pi

NOTE: There's nothing to "play" in this cart! It's all in the cart's code!

I remember reading a thread a while back about the idea of having the manual for PICO-8 available in the console itself, maybe in cart form. I plan on getting a PocketC.H.I.P. and I really want to have the whole API reference available to me right from inside PICO-8. So I decided to just put it all in a cart to always have a reference with me.

I made a lot of use of Neko250's awesome API cheatsheet, which is why he's credited as well as zep. I'm sure there are probably typos to correct and maybe an error here and there, so let me know if you see anything needing fixing. I'll try to keep it up to date. In the meantime, feel free to use it yourself.

manual api reference

Just a silly little toy that I cobbled together over the last few hours.
Somewhat inspired by today's Castlevania streams during SGDQ and the DVD logo screensavers of old.
Additionally, it's the first time I used any shape more complex than circles or rectangles.
There obviously still is a lot of room for improvement, but I'm quite pleased with my first foray into maths in my projects.

A non-interactive view of a scene. It's roughly based on something I saw a few days ago, which reminded me of Virginia.

Some features:

• Infinite random props
• "Immediate mode" rendering - no spawning/deleting/pooling props
• Smooth LOD on tree leaves (more leaves on nearby trees)

Source code is commented, but the least-intuitive part of it (infinitely looping random objects) isn't really explained in there, because it would be a huge comment. Instead, here we go:

First, think of the casino signs with a ring of lights around them. When they light up one at a time in sequence, it can appear like a "single light" is "moving around" the sign, even though it's really different lights which are blinking at choreographed times. Our trees in this demo work similarly, but we can also move the positions of the lights separately from changing their states. Also, instead of on-or-off, each tree is given a persistent random seed.

Other than that, it's all pretty normal, I think?

press X for the real thing ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

bone wave

Just a fun thing I made this afternoon. Happy 4th!

(And to everyone outside the US, I hope you had a great day too.) :D

This is my first Pico-8 cartridge, hope you enjoy it! Took me approximately 24 hours effective time to make.

Title screen artwork was created by @jellocube (Matthew Shelley), much appreciated!

Picopolis is a SimCity demake / idle game in which you place roads, residental/industrial/commercial zoning, schools, police departments, hospitals, and various other things. The city will grow depending on housing, jobs, pollution, and crime ratings, and the bigger it gets the more money you make.

Cheers!

// Jens

Changes in 1.1:

• Fixed placing large buildings outside of the map
• Added "Established" date to the victory statue, kind of like a highscore
• Made large commercial zones develop just a tiny bit faster

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simulation

This is a game made by following the tutorial of Rabidgremlin's videos, so all credit goes to him.

Here's a game that appeared to me in a dream a few days ago. In the dream, it made me rich and famous and I'm confident since I made the game play exactly how it did in the dream, I'll start to see some pretty substantial paychecks roll in.

This is a game all about patience, rather than skill. Try to beat your high scores and challenge your friends to beat your record!

~Planned features for next major version~

• High score board
• Dialogue
• Soundtrack
• Horse customization

v0.1.1 updates

• Fixed scoring bug by completely changing the scoring system
• Made it a little jucier

horse pointless

Just a little image generator. Generates buildings, a moon, some stars, and a reflective body of water. Nothing particularly fancy going on here; the code is probably relatively self-explanatory

"Ahh, this is the life." Sipping on a frosted glass of bug juice, Minimalizard sat back in his tiny lawn chair, soaking up some much-deserved rays of sunlight. He'd spent the whole morning obsessively tidying his minimalistic home ... sweeping up dirt, throwing out trash, and generally cleansing his life of excess.

But suddenly, a shadow fell over his yard. Minimalizard removed his sunglasses in disbelief. "What the ..."

Hundreds of brightly-colored crates loomed in the sky above, plummeting toward his house. They'd almost certainly rearrange his decor - and not a good way.

"Not if I have anything to do with it!" Minimalizard gulped down the rest of his drink and hopped nimbly from his chair. It wasn't going to be easy, but if he had to punch, stomp and shoot every crate from the sky himself, he'd do it.

"Because I ... am ... MINIMALIZARD!"

arcade shooter lizard

My second game - my version of Missile Command. I learned a fair bit doing this one so I hope you like it :D
Much like nuclear war, there is no win state, you just survive as long as you can whilst things get progressively more difficult.

The aim is to keep your cities safe from ICBM attack. You have a limited number of ABM missiles. As long as one city survives each wave, you can continue. Destruction of ABM launch silos means you cannot use it although they are more hardened than cities against a direct impact. Bonuses are awarded for each surviving city.

Controls:

Z to start game
X to fire ABM missiles

This is so much fun, on to the next project!