After a while, I finally made a Pico8 game that isn't overrated Celeste slop, about time!
Welcome to Tower of Arcania, a tough-as-nails arcade-platformer.
Your goal is to run dodge bullets, and defeat each enemy on each floor you come across.
Can you climb the 30 floors of the tower and get the very cliche-girl?
Or do you suck at videogames?
And, if you want, you can also play with a friend if they too also wish to suffer!
Controls
- ⬅️ ➡️ to move
- 🅾️ to jump, you can also jump off of walls
- ❎ to shoot fireballs
Other Key Points to Know
Every 10,000 points is an extra life.
And to top that, the faster you defeat enemies, the more coins they drop.
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Jump between two parallel universes by changing the gravity and collect urgently needed supplies 🍕.
Developed for PICO-8 on the Hüttenjam 2023 at the Turracher Höhe.
Controls
X ... Toggle gravity
C ... Return to main menu (during menus)
Collect 🍕 for extra points.
See Itch page for more details.
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Made this a while back when I was freshly new to pico-8, this was the first game I actually put effort in and im actually pretty proud with how it came out. The code is probably a mess since it was my first project.
Default Controls:
Arrows to move
O -- Flag
X -- Reveal / Select Menu
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A short wave shmup based on the Krystman/LazyDevs tutorial
Shoot bad guys guys, collect shells, and explode bombs!
-Use the arrow keys to move, X to shoot, and Z for bomb
-The more shells you have, the bigger the bomb explosion
-Collect 10 shells and you'll get an extra life
-If you have full health when you collect 10 shells, you'll get 5000 points
-Shooting down attacking enemies (wiggling or flying toward you) nets extra points
-Bombs will also wipe enemy bullets and gain extra points doing so
-The game will save your high score, but you need to return to the main menu after winning or game over
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Controls
Use movement keys to move!
Rules
Collect coins! Dodge lasers!
Post your scores!
My first game that took me like 8 hours to create. I decided to make it after going halfway thru the basic shmup tutorial series by Lazy dev https://www.youtube.com/@LazyDevs.
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I have made many projects that don't get very far. I decided to make something so tiny that I would have to finish it. Nothing special but it functions!
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Made (Well, ig finished) for the 12 Days of CChistmas jam!!!! No i will not spell crismats correctly.
post jam ver with some slight changes (Aka i changed three map tiles lmao)
Huge thank you to rubyred for hosting the event!!!!!
https://evergreengames.github.io/cchristmas/
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It's been a while since I've published a Pico-8 cartridge, so here's Flappy Bird that I made in less than a day. This is also the first time I've ever tried making sound effects in Pico-8, so I hope people enjoy how the game sounds as well.
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Help Hr. B!
Controls
Arrow keys to move around. (Z) to select/brake. (P) to pause the game.
How to play
Survive for 100 seconds to win!
It might be fun to go in blind and figure out how the game works yourself, but if you'd rather not here's how everything works:
====== Hr. B ======
You play as Hr. B. He is vulnerable when slow, but if fast enough he can damage enemies by ramming into them. He will glow when he has reached that critical speed.
====== Bats ======
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Controls
- Arrows to move
- X to attack
- C to dash
TLDR
Zelda dungeons with an orange cat friend. (Thx @8bit_gnosis)
Story
You're taking a casual ride on your dragon when all of a sudden the dragon has to sneeze! You and your cat companion get thrown off, and now you have to try to climb the dragon tower to get back on.
What is Bloodletting?
The tower is powered by the blood of fallen dragon riders - and it offers you certain deals for your blood.
These deals can make or break you, so be careful!
Beware!
Destroy the chests to sometimes find a heart
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Overstory of Übermorgen
Some Background
I've been working on a PICO-8 game for a couple months now as my final for my Videogame Design class, and I think I'd like to start talking about it a little bit. I'm new to PICO-8, and I'm definitely an amateur programmer. My focus is primarily on story telling and art (which I'm also not super good at, but I do what I can). This is actually my first post on the Lexaloffle BBS, so I apologize for any weird mishaps and whatnot.
Anywhos... On with the show!
My game is an RPG sort of game, where most of the game is top-down open-world exploration with NPCs to talk to, signs to read, and chests to open. But there's also a turn-based combat state, where if you come across an enemy, you will be tossed into fight (I call this state "tcomba").
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This is my first pseudo-game, I was following the Lazy Devs shmup tutorial but I wanted to start experimenting on my own, and part of that self learning is actually publishing something
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Balloon Escape!
--A short action game playing as a humble balloon --
How to play:
- Arrow Keys - Move Balloon
- Z/X - Advance Menu
- Collect 5 air canisters to advance to the next level
- New life given at each level
- 3 difficulty modes
- 1 level to unlock
- Score is based on number of cans collected, speed, and deaths
How high will you fly???
This is my third and most ambitious pico-8 release. I have very little coding experience outside pico8 and this was a great challenge for me. Token limit is pretty much maxed out and contains 38,000+ characters. I welcome any feedback you have!
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Check out these Humongous Entertainment sprites I made using PICO-8's sprite editor! I was just experimenting with making 16x16 sprites, and I didn't expect them to look this good, but here we are!
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This is just my little game I made, it doesn't have music yet but maybe in the future :)
-V
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