This is a self playing game, intended to demonstrate the A* algorithm. The character will perpetually go outside to pick flowers, then put them in planters in their house. It's probably something I'll build on later but it's fun to watch the algorithm work. It sometimes (rarely) hits a bug where it won't go to put down the flower. I haven't tracked it down yet.

pathfinding

My first PICO-8 game!

It's also my first non-endless-arcade-type game really.
Let me know what you think!
<3

catwalk platformer cat

Made this cover of one of my favorite songs ever, the robocop game theme by Johnathan Dunn (You may also know it as the ariston commercial song or from Gilbert 3), pretty happy with how it came out

robocop music cover

Started making this game a few years back. Just got around to finishing it up.

It's a one button game. I started with the idea of making a game in which you only had control part of the time and this is where I landed.

It's a game in which you get to play a mermaid that happens to only be able to accelerate upwards out of water. The trick is to use that upward acceleration to control how deep you'll end up going when you descend due to gravity.

Hope you enjoy!

This is the complete, post-jam version of my submission to the 2020 Toy Box Jam

Picomen!

PICOMEN is a classic turned-based strategy RPG flattened into a straight line. Battles are about learning your enemies' weaknesses, carefully organising your team and improvisation. This post-jam version includes three story lines, branching quests, challenging bosses and all new user interface improvements!

There's an element of learning-as-you-go with this one, so listen to "Helpy" and good luck!

Icon Guide

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Welcome to TOYROGUE. Fight your way through an endless dungeon of horrors in this turn-based rogue-like.

ATTACK randomised enemies in turn-based combat

EQUIP randomised items to power-up your murder hobo

THROW bad items at the enemies to lower their stats!

EAT fortune cookies

CHOOSE to be a dragnet of death and entropy or skillfully navigate your way through the dungeon

Made in Pico-8 for ToyBoxJam2020

Known issues

The game can sometimes crash after the victory/defeat screen. (Thanks @maskedluka for spotting this!)

Version history

1.05 - Fixed a bug where an infinite combat loop could start when running away from enemies into a wall. (Thanks @Mumuko!)

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beat sync
a game by kiptok

find the track
that matches yours
sync with it
have fun:)

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I made an image demake tool for PICO-8. Load any image and create a dithered image that uses PICO-8 standard colors and/or hidden colors and is reduced to a maximum width and height of 128 x128. Depict supports Ordered, Atkinson, Floyd-Steinberg, and Sierra2 dithering as well as some artistic dithers: Rivers, Streets, Rain, Wind. Drag and drop the final result into the PICO-8 sprite sheet. Free on itch: Depict

All feedback welcomed.

Mix and match standard and hidden colors, but do do not exceed 16.

Rivers dither adds horizontal ripples.

Streets dither creates maze-like artifacts.

Rain dither makes vertical steaks.

Wind dither produces slashes.

Atkinson Dither

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Hello, it's clear that here are only best cartriges posted but i post now something really bad :D
I've tried to experiment with some music and something psychodelic appeared. Maybe that's how i feel right now.
(what if my son sees it ;) )

I've bundled up my improvements for the gamepad problems in HTML exports I described over in another thread as a plate.

Features

• Full Dpad support.
• Gamepads are only assigned to players when they first press a button. This way if you have multiple gamepads you aren't stuck with whatever order the browser decides to assign them to P1, P2, etc.

Usage

• Download the release of Nettie's Gamepad from github.
• Unzip.
• Go to the PICO-8 plates folder. (Run FOLDER in PICO-8 to open the carts folder, go up one level, the plates folder should be alongside.)
• Copy netties_gamepad.html into the plates folder.
• Load up your game in PICO-8.
• Export with EXPORT YOURGAME.HTML -P NETTIES_GAMEPAD

plate gamepad joystick

Made for the Toy Box Jam 2020
Use Up/Down/Left/Right to move
Press X to buy upgrades
Press O to rappel (if you've bought it)

...there's no real end goal.

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Small little game jam game. Change the phases of the moon by using your moon lamps!

A little space-farming game I'm working on. Nowhere near done, but I put a fair amount of time into making movement feel good, but haven't really filled in the game mechanics yet.

Controls:

• Z to charge a boost,
• X to grapple onto planets.

Features:

• Random planet and astroid layouts
• Gravity affects your ship proportional to their mass
• You can collect "resources" from planets, but they don't do anything yet.

Enjoy flying around :)

Probably won't get around to finishing this any time soon, so feel free to hack on it if you like.

space

I worked solo on this, it's still a bit buggy (the coloured bats don't phase out) and for the ending I just dropped the player into a pit. But I'm still pretty proud. Hope you have fun with the 30 seconds of content there is :'). Please be kind!

ggj2021 lost found colour color

The Lost City of Phound

Our Global Game Jam 2021 entry. We finished something playable and challenging and I think that's largely due to PICO-8 being an amazing tool.

I think there could be more balancing, once you work out a strat to get to level 5 you should be able to win on most runs unless you have a terrible start.

Instructions

Reach level 5 and find the crystal skull before you lose all your workers to traps. Make sure you find enough treasure along the way to buy the necessary equipment to find and get the skull.

Keys:

Movement: up, down, left, right

z: use/buy currently selected item.

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Try to stay alive as long as possible, and avoid those Bull Sheeps!

Controls:
Use the arrow keys to control your shepherd.
Use X to scare the sheeps with trimmer noises!
Use Z to see collision boxes.

Cartridge:

Goal:
Survive!

About Me:
Hi I'm Abhijit,

I made this awhile back, posting it after a long time, as it got some love in my blog post!

Bull Sheep: Casual 8 Bit Game using Fantasy Console PICO-8

Thank you for playing!

casual experiment

Game is also available on Itch.io: nusan.itch.io/dami-and-flo

Dami and Flo are two workers on a delivery train. At each station, they have to take input packages at the bottom and store them somewhere in the wagon so they can be easily delivered at a future train stop.

There is a one player mode or a two player local splitscreen mode. You can choose your difficulty with "Timer" option and "Items" quantity option. You can also choose to have more than one wagon, but it can be very difficult especially if you are not playing with a friend.

Between stations, take your time to sort and store all the packages in the wagon. Clear the input area as fast as possible so new packages can be inserted at the next stop. Delivery requests for the next station are displayed at the top of the screen.

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train puzzle chill