Controls

ARROW KEYS - Movement

Z - Attack

Protect your flowers from the invading mushroom colony at all costs! Also, shinobi can't swim.

Credits

Created by SnoozeTime and Acedio for Spring 2D Game Jam 2025.

jam

3rd Cart! ...A platform game template of sorts.

This a continuation of platform basics with an improved
collision system that supports bouncy and solid entity types,
a modular particle system, parallax background effects
and optional pallet and font switching. Text boxes and
animated text typing for use with narrative and dialogue.

Camera clamping allows for the partitioning of the
shared sprite sheet and map data in creative ways.

In 1000 lines its packed in the core elements of a platform
game development system organized in modular way to serve
as a template for building games off.

I hope you find it useful!

-JS

platformer template assets

Just a little gift for you :3

Hello wonderful people of the Lexaloffle BBS.

I would like to talk about something I’ve recently started working on.
I call it “Euphoria”, and I’m planning to make it an extended list of functions to help me make my games more easily. Best case scenario would be to turn it into a full-on engine with easily-readable, convenient UI, but first things come first.

Currently, I’m working on sprite rendering functions that help me scale and rotate sprites easily, as well as animate them via shifting through a big sprite-sheet. I call this aspect of Euphoria “Oculus”.
I’ve found a website with a bunch of easing functions, and I’ve been implementing them into picotron fairly simply. The code isn't really ready to be reusable, but I need to check if things work first before doing that... mainly because classes can be kind of a headache, haha!

And the results are pretty good! I'm using a sheet of Sonic the Hedgehog sprites a friend of mine made, and it looks incredible.

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euphoria-engine

Im not exactly sure where to put this.

Is there a general community forum/thread where i can ask basic questions about coding in Pico-8? Im just starting out but was checking to see if there was anything here before heading over to reddit.

Also, is there a way to get the Pico 8 Educational version to run offline? I don't need the cart store or whatever its called, but it would be really nice to just have the basic dev thing without needing wifi.
i wonder if i could pre load the page and run it offline?

any tips would be much appreciated
looking forward to messing with pic0 while i have internet ^^

VERSION 0.1
Controls
Mouse is used to edit characters. Basic paint program.
left click place color
right click delete tile

right arrow will make some examples I made

Once a picture is created hit save! It will create a text file on your desktop called pico. In this
file will be a string that you can print()

"\+og\f8\^:003c7effffff9555\+0g\+oo\f8\^:151b3f1f0f070301\+08\+gg\f8\^:003e7ffffff73736\+8g\+go\f8\^:36c4f8f8f0e0c080\+88\+gg\f7\^:000000000008c8c8\+8g\+go\f7\^:c838000000000000\+88\+og\f7\^:0000000000006a2a\+0g\+oo\f7\^:6a24400000000000\"

this is what the line looks it don't work if you paste from it, i guess it has hidden characters.

Post Update Ideas
Fill Tool and Multi animation are on the list
Maybe even put a function in the text doc you can just copy and paste easy

it can be upto 16X16 pixels and only cost one token because its a string. The catch is more colors means alot of characters used. I just found pico a couple of weeks ago, I love it.

I felt i needed more graphics in a space game I have been working on. So I build this to make animated sprites without using the sprite sheet.

Credits
Chazbcook creator of Realm of Past World (old online rpg)

workinprogress

Flap Together (or don't). This is my first PICO-8 game originally using the Flappy Bird tutorial by Space Cat. I then adapted/extended the game to be playable by 4 players so I could play it with friends. It's Last Duck Flapping.

Each player who joins the game gets their own uniquely coloured Duck.

Dead Ducks drop bombs to make it harder for those fortunate enough to still be flapping. The first to cross through a pipe gets 2 points, everyone else gets 1.

While alive and flapping, use the left and right to dodge bombs and make it through pipes. While dropping bombs, use left and right buttons to position the drop.

multiplayer flappybird

Hello Wonderful people of the BBS! You can call me Modem.

Some might know me by another name. Unfortunately, I've decided to retire that account. This is where I will be posting from now on.

I hope to start posting more often!

Cheers!
— Modem

The P-icon-tron jam!

Header by @crab

The Jam

The jam will be going on through the first week of May! So from May the first, to May the seventh.

The Goal

The goal of this jam is to make as many icons as possible for the community to use and to make our workspaces and projects just a little prettier! Picotron already has wonderful icons but we need more! Icons for apps, folders, tools, games, and anything else you can think of. The wider the net the better! Make icons for those random projects you think of at 2AM. Who knows, maybe it will be perfect for someone else's project.

Submitting

For submitting, feel free to use this template cart made by @squibble! Add your icons as sprites in the .gfx tab, and names and descriptions for the icons at the top of the code tab. Then, post your cart with all your icons as a reply to this post. Remember to use the default Picotron palette (0 as transparent) and an icon size of 16x16!

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jam

A silly word game made in PICO-8. Based off of the real Wordle game.

puzzle words

Legendable: The Post World (Title not finale)

What started as a Zelda 1 clone has developed into a multi-player couch co-op adventure game. The engine is still VERY much a work in progress, and honestly I'm just making this post to grab hold of the name first.

Progress & Screenshots

• Up to 4 players
• Independant viewports that support edge scrolling
• The entire map is drawn and handles every entity (will probably break into rooms for performance)

Todo

• Multiple Maps
• Items & Weapons
• Monsters
• Towns

DM me on the Picotron discord if you're interested in playing with alpha carts.

wip adventure picotron multiplayer couch co-op

That Phial Game

Inspired by that mobile game, try to sort colors together by pouring them from one phial to the other.

Controls

Z or 🅾️ to select [Special action on double press]
X or ❎ to select
Arrow Keys to move selection

Game Modes

Puzzle

Start with a random arrangement of colors and try to sort them all.
Special action: Undo.

Infinite

Colors get added every 5 turns. When all phials are full, you loose. Try to survive as long as possible.
Get two turns of additional time when you complete a phial.
Special action: Skip to the next drop.

Please let me know what you think!

puzzle

Description:

Spaceship Run is my very first game for PICO-8.
I am not a game developer, but I wanted to try it out. I hope you like it anyway.
The Code is a mess! Sorry for that!

Controls:

How to play:

• Fly to the right
• Collect the fuels
• Try to get as far as possible

enjoy!

Clone of snake, not much else to say.

My first Pico-8 game based on the PC DOS game Paratroopers.

Description

WIP on a mini golf game, pretty bare bones at the moment with only 5 holes.
Any feedback / ideas / bugs - all welcome!

Controls

• Left/right - aim
• X - start/stop power bar

Whats missing?

• Hazards / helpers
• More holes
• Lock holes until previous is complete
• Better transitions
• FX / Music / SFX
• Finish editor and publish

wip golf

dice :O

Bice [Boss Dice]

how to "play":

• select bice to and maximize your score
• score = (bice - 1)*(1+(dices.faces-1-bice))%5 [simplified]

I just wanted to make rolling dice, have fun.