I’ve recently been diving deeper into the world of PICO-8, and I’m excited to share some of the mini games I’ve created along the way. As a game developer, I’ve always loved working with limitations, and PICO-8 offers the perfect balance of simplicity and creativity. It’s been an incredible experience building small, fun, and quirky games within its 128x128 canvas.

My latest project is a simple platformer that combines fast-paced movement with puzzle-solving mechanics. The goal was to create something that feels nostalgic while introducing a few new twists. You can check it out [here] (insert link to your game).

If you’re new to PICO-8, I highly recommend diving into its documentation and exploring the community's creations. There’s so much you can do with just 32k of memory! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, it’s a fantastic tool for experimenting with game ideas and learning new techniques.

Feel free to give feedback or share your own projects! Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of what we can create with PICO-8!

Bought it for windows, installed it and all I get is a command prompt like screen saying type HELP??? is this how you run the program with commands? if so can I have my money back? looked around the internet could not find any tutorials for windows. which is understandably being it is more for handhelds but I thought their would at least be one. anyway just venting some frustration.

Weekly Work Summary
Following last week’s completion of enemy death animations and effects, this week’s focus was on diversifying enemy types and implementing a basic level progression system. Currently, enemy data is stored in an array, and different types of enemies are generated randomly using a pool based on level data. Each enemy has unique size, collision box, health, and animations, making the addition of new enemy types simpler going forward.

Objectives and Vision
After thoughtful consideration over the week, a clear vision for the game’s final form has emerged. To enhance replayability, I plan to introduce roguelike mechanics inspired by Slay the Spire. A randomly generated map will guide players through various nodes, such as chests, events, battles, and rest points, where they can gain incremental power-ups. In battle, inspired by survivor-type games, players will aim to defeat as many enemies as possible within a set time to earn gold, experience, and rewards, strengthening themselves to face the boss. To prevent linear stat growth, the game will incorporate level-ups for stat gains, and rewards and relics for mechanical enhancements, ultimately challenging players to defeat the boss within the time limit for a successful roguelike run.

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after ufo 50 any creators on here have a really big opportunity to emulate concepts used there or at least be inspired by the quality and quantity of great pixel art content over there. pico 8 games get picked up in popularity all the time, and theres nothing stopping anyone from uploading or reusing content from here to keep working into a demo or even early access, the skies the limit and idk what im talking about but its been more than a month without any reference to such a huge project for vintage/pixel art gaming.

Until now，I have finished the collisions of my player，enemies and the bullets.I made a debug function to draw those collisions.It's looks good.
Now，it is actually a game which can play by someone else.But it has only one enemy，no skills，almost no animation，no plot，no goal，no score.It is not fun at all.
That's what i want to do next.I want to make it more like a roguelike game which like Brotato or Vampire Survivors.
This type is a litte flooded. But it is suitable for a little STG game. I actually have some ideas，I hope it will be
fun，

I make a temporary GameOver screen which looks like this.

I think it's good enough right now.The next step is to make some enemies to shoot.

My Scratch acc got banned like, 4 times, so I guess i'm using Pico-8 as my sort of "blog". Have fun, stay safe, luv ya! (つ◕‿◕)つ

(Ae-dree-ai)

Unwrap the Parcel!

by AlrtCypress

Cart #parcel_unwrap_game-1 | 2024-10-20 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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If you're unwrapping, mash your button to unravel the ball!
If you're not unwrapping, press your button to roll dice. If you roll 2 of the same number, you swap places!

Turn on a bot in the pause menu.

I unlocked golden strawberries and C-sides. It's like the game wants me to drop it. (Still love it, though]

Oggi inzio con PICO-8. I giochi sembrano tutti belli.
Devo capire come farlo funzionare in RetroArch.
Devo capire se sia possibile scaricare i giochi o se rimangano esclusivamente nell'eseguibile del programma (nel senso, nella cartella di PICO-8, senza essere utilizzabili dall'esterno).

This is what Berplo looks like in Berplo's Cave Trek for Treasure. They have a sentient hat with two white feathers on top (used for flight once a power-up is collected), one red eye, and a hidden mouth with a lizard-like tongue (used for eating certain objects once a power-up is collected). Berplo also has a cat-like face with four whiskers (might be utilized later in power-up form). And Berplo also has an orange robe (it's a robe).