I had an idea for a new game. The idea is to grow a bonsai tree using a deck of cards. You will continue to build your deck as your bonsai grows, achieves balance, and gains prestige. I am taking a lot of inspiration from both my love of board games as well as my love for Bonsai horticulture. To make the tree I am creating a map of each branch off the main segment and generating the geometry of the branches on the fly. The game is still in a very early stage of development but I still thought it might be interesting to share the first screenshot.

Next I am going to be adding the foliage and flora before I start working on the deck-building component. Stay tuned.

snakeout

by relsqui

Cart #snakeout-21 | 2024-03-20 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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You ever think of a title first and work backwards?

Breakout + Snake. Bounce around, eat apples, don't hit your tail, or if you do ... dodge.

Sounds are from Gruber's rad SFX pack. I have a little bit more planned, but happy to have any feedback in the meantime.

Grid Shift

by Moracan

Cart #moragridshift-0 | 2024-03-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Hi! I'm Moracan! I've been playing around with PICO-8 for around 2 years now, and today I finally released the "full" version of my game: Grid Shift!

Grid Shift is my version of a pretty popular logic puzzle named Towers, also known as Skyscrapers. This digital version of that puzzle includes randomly generated puzzles, customizable board sizes (1x1 to 6x6), a hint system to help newcomers to Towers and graphics that aren't simply numbers, they're numbers on towers. With color!

You can go to the Itch.io page for more info.

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BIRD

This is my first Pico-8 game.

bird_and_spikes_2

by Resas

Cart #bird_and_spikes_2-1 | 2024-07-11 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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sonoran rattlesnake 1.1

by Andres602

Cart #sonoranrattlesnake-2 | 2025-04-30 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Sonora Snake

In development

Classic snake game with power-ups.

How to play.

• Use the arroys keys to set a direction.
• Use x button to dig.

Fruits

	[8x8]

Points: 10
Effects: N/A

	[8x8]

Points: 10

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thinevoidbeckons

by paperskull

Cart #thinevoidbeckons-2 | 2024-03-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Thine Void Beckons

Protect yourselves with demonic entities to thieve a prize.

You have entered a void of your own creation in search of a dark and terrible prize. However, it 👁️ seeks you, and you have a limited amount of time before it 👁️ finds you. Collect entities, and use the shrines located in the void to empower them in an effort to survive an encounter with it 👁️. All you can do is wait while your entities do battle. If you survive... the prize shall be yours.

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tweet5

by cheesemug

Cart #tweet_5-1 | 2024-03-05 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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this is only this, check it out on itch...

Colors!

So basically I joined the NOKIA 3310 JAM 6 a few days ago (no pong).
Some of the restrictions you had where the two classic greenish Nokia colors, but the problem was that Pico 8 doesn't have those colors. Lucky for us Pancelor had left us very helpful and detailed instructions, where he covered a buch of thing like changing the thumnail/colors/resolution etc.. Thanks man :)
You should check it out yourself as well nokia html template by pancelor

• So Export your game like this "export Your_game.html"

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Yo @zep! I think I had a decent brainwave! And I think it's a good bang-for-buck in terms of using existing functionality to get something really useful.

How hard would it be to add a command to the command prompt that simply does what #include does at runtime, i.e. executes some external PICO-8-compatible Lua in the current runtime environment?

For instance, I could load @Mot's cool variable inspector, which is a live, ephemeral dev/debug tool, without having to cut and paste the code in three parts into the command line manually:

> #include inspector.lua
loading inspector.lua
> dinsp(myvar)
[debugging intensifies]

I think #include or even include might be a bit cumbersome for something a dev might want to type often, though. I thought of other alternatives like `import, but I think use might be the shortest verb that still makes sense in the context of an ephemeral-use tool. If we combine that short keyword with functionality that automatically tries to append .lua, that really cuts down the typing necessary at runtime:

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Palette

by Zellkoss_

Cart #palette-3 | 2024-03-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Hello Everyone,

I’m a beginner programmer, and I just submitted my first game, Palette!🎨

Palette is a simple puzzle game🧩.
You’ll land in the middle of a colorful, filled canvas.
Each time you move, the tiles you land on will dynamically change color according to a pre-defined sequence that is visible to you.

Controls

Controls are simple, juste move your character with ⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️ !

Game mode

Quick Play

In Quick Play mode, you’ll land on a randomly filled canvas. Your objective is to create rows and/or columns of the same color as long as possible. *The longer the line, the higher your score will be.

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i live pcio 8

This is my first cart posted on bbs!
its a simple demo where you draw with the arrow keys and clear the screen with O.

Pico Sketch 1.0

by shrimpcat

Cart #picoetchasketch-0 | 2024-03-04 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Here is my cover of a spooky graveyard theme from computer games of yore!

Click the spoiler for changes...

I've actually had this song kicking around for a bit. I finally decided to to add some artwork and unleash it upon the community!

Have a listen and let me know what you think.

First one to guess where this song is from gets a virtual cookie!

Graveyard

by Turbochop

Cart #graveyard-1 | 2024-09-05 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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