PORTZZ - Space Dock Defense
Portzz is an early arcade style game that focuses on highscore and speed.
Gameplay
- Defend a space dock
- Shoot enemy ships (red)
- Don't shoot your friends (green)
After reaching the docking area green ships will dock and get out of your way,
while red enemy ships will try to breach the base (your tower) - don't let them or
the game is lost!
You have 3 shields - when you fire on a friend you loose one shield.
If you have no more shields left the game is lost.
Controls
- ⬅️➡️⬆️⬇️ shoot laser
- 🅾️ fire nuke
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WotchiRPG
A minimalistic RPG with exploration and time-based battle system.
Inspiration: Tamagotchi & Final Fantasy 8 Chocobo World
This is a work in progress. What would you add?
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11.12.25 - Tutorial bugfix
Fixed issue where tutorial was showing every time a new game started. Now it will only show once, and won't show up again unless the cart data is reset via the pause menu.
About
Picotan is a simple but addictive brick-breaker game inspired by the original BBTAN (2015), and similar titles Ballz (2017), Holedown (2018), Piffle (2018).
Instructions
- Launch balls at bricks and destroy as many as possible in a single turn
- Each time a ball hits a brick, that brick's health reduces by one
- Once a brick reaches zero health, it is destroyed
- New bricks will spawn with more health after each round
- If a brick reaches the bottom of the screen, the game is over
- Try and reach the highest score possible!
Controls
This game supports keyboard, gamepad, mouse, and touch input, all of which can be switched between on the fly.
- Z / Left mouse (hold): Aim shot
- Z / Left mouse (release while aiming): Launch balls
- X / Right mouse (release while aiming): Cancel aim mode
- X / Right mouse (release while launching): Recall all balls / skips current turn
- You can also press the Recall button that appears while launching
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This is a small game I made in order to get better at using PICO-8. I likely won't come back to improve it, but I thought I should post it anyway.
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hello i am trying to create a jumpking demake after coming back to pico after a little break and i seem to have trouble with the pico 8 collision detection can somebody help me with this problem?
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Is it going to be possible to have 2-player, online play with picotron?
I've seen some stuff with chat (that I never got to work). Is a 2-player picotron game in real-time feasible for the future? Can it be done now?
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Dream Ghoul is a small, silly game I made my for wife for her favorite time of year. Find the keys, grab the hearts, and meet your dream ghoul! Just move around with your arrow keys and try not to bump into things. (Or do bump into things; it's funny to watch!)
I hope it amuses you for a minute or so.
back story
I'm a professional software engineer with more than 30 years experience, but have been having a blast learning game development with Pico-8 the past few months. I drew the main character one evening and built a tiny game around him. This is my first game I've shared publicly. Thanks to Lazy Devs Academy for the great tutorials and Caitlin for the inspiration.
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Get ready to bounce, break blocks, and use superpowers! Battle Shield Enhanced is an action-packed game of reflexes that combines pong, brick-breaking, and one-on-one combat.
Game Description
In Battle Shield, you control your character to hit the ball and destroy your opponent's blocks. The goal is to run out of blocks before your opponent or beat the AI in single-player mode. As you progress, the game becomes faster and more challenging, and you can use dashes and superpowers to change the game.
Key Features:
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Multiple game modes:
- PvE: Player vs. AI
- PvP: Player 1 vs. Player 2
- Increasing difficulty levels.
- Dash to move quickly in any direction.
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- Cryptomancer - A fun puzzle game about solving ice block puzzles tring to put out flames. [7.5/10]
- Pico-Ball - The best Pico-8 game I've ever played, surpassing my love for Just One Boss! (Which is saying a lot.) [9.5/10]
I'll review these both more in-depth in the future..
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Hello! I have a sneak-peak to show my upcoming game: Snail's Gold 2. It's entirely map based, 0 tutorials used, all me. (Unlike the first game.) So how it works, and why you can't move down on some tiles, and why there's no gravity, and why you can't do some stuff when walking, is you are only able to walk forward on air tiles and go down on ladder tiles.
I haven't been working on this for a while, but I think it's time to work on it again.
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WARNING: Contains flashing. Also this is not a game.
Controls:
- X to speed up text and move to next scene.
- Left/right arrows to move between scenes.
I became interested in Greek myths and thought I'd turn the stories into some pico-8 carts. I first started with 150 scenes but it was too big. I settled for just under 90 scenes with some sacrifices made around the code generated graphics.
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Warning
This tool overwrites saves from other carts. Make sure you know what you are doing.
Controls
Instructions on which keys or buttons to press are displayed on screen at all times.
Note: pause menu is supressed in keyboard mode, hold ENTER or P for a second to display it.
Context
- PICO-8 executables save cartdata as text files in the cdata folder.
- BBS javascript, on the other hand, is limited to your browser's internal storage, which is a lot less convenient for users to access directly.
Purpose
This tool allows you to easily transfer your progress between PICO-8 installations, particularly from/to the BBS. It also allows you to edit your saves on the fly.
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Hello everyone! I just started learning PICO-8 and decided to make chess (why not?). Would appreciate any feedback!
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A small bullet-hell style game made in 5 days
Arrow keys - move left and right
Z - Use jetpack
X - Dash (left or right)
Credit to https://nerdyteachers.com for assisting a LOT during the dev process
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Still a lot of work to do.
Heavily inspired by https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
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Old versions:
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This is my first attempt at making a game. I hope you like it and that it is a bit of fun.
You're an RA going through 4 nights of chaotic duty. You'll encounter tons to resolve, but also you can stop-by resident rooms to prevent issues for a bit, recharge your energy at your RA room so you don't become exhausted, and stomp/slide to kill bugs as you make your way through the building. There was definite inspiration from fix-it felix jr. but the came is very much different and built from the ground up. Watch out for the invincible boss at the end that can only be defeated by hosting events!
If you beat the game, you'll get a new unlockable character.
edit:
10/24/2025 - v2.3 released with new tutorial, updated mechanics, and hardcore mode, plus some bug fixes specifically on the unlockable character
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