Cat-astrophe

Your family has just put up this weird tree full of shiny toys!

This game was made for the advent calendar 2025.

contributions

Thanks to @MaxOsirus for rewriting the tree-falling physics engine.
@bikibird donated some of the one-liners at the end.
Playtesting was done by pretty much everyone involved in this year's advent calendar jam.

Watch @Achie72 's playthrough.

cat christmas advent

The 2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar is here! Busy little devs elves have been hard at work these past couple of months crafting you some holiday cheer. Please enjoy a new game, toy, or demo each day.

Controls

🅾️ open present; ⬅️➡️ scroll menu; ⬆️ shake globe.

Credits

Elf Cannon by @zep
Snowdrifts by @kozm0naut
Costume Cat by @SmellyFishstiks
Present Placer by @BryterGames
Gift Gatherer by @NerdyTeachers
Jungle Bells by @Guidouil

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advent christmas 2025

Swing and a Misery

I created this game for the PiCoSteveMo 3 Game Jam!
It is based on the Stephen King novel (and movie) Misery.

This is a "time your shot" style game like a golf game... but instead of swinging a golf club you swing a sledgehammer!!! A perfect score is 10,000 points. Press X at just the right time for the power and accuracy gauges to maximize your swing!

Help Annie warm-up her swings on a tree stump outside as she prepares for her time with Paul!

Jam Page: https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3

arcade timedshot misery picostevemo

Howdy! This is my second game entirely in Dagapya, my constructed auxlang that you can learn more about here: https://dagapya.com/

The Debiduba are an organization of rescue foxes committed to saving other animals in trouble. Unfortunately, Leni, the newest recruit, is very clumsy and loses every single one of their tools upon entering the cave! Hopefully, Leni and all the sheep can get out safely...

This game was inspired by Ham-Ham Heartbreak after I tried to brainstorm ideas for a more text-heavy game to display my conlang. Huge thank you to @paraK00PA for helping and making the music! This is a 10-20 min experience.

Controls:
-D-pad to move (Arrows on keyboard)
-O to talk / interact / choose option / continue dialogue (Z on keyboard)

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fox conlang adventure text-heavy

Block Überleben

Controls

Move/Look Left & Right = (Left) & (Right)
Look Up = (Up)
Look Down = (Down)
Jump = (O)/[Z]
Place/Destroy = (X)/[X]
Change Block = Hold (O)/[Z] þen (X)/[X] togeþer, þen (Up) & (Down)

Reference is in þe pause menu as "Help!"

Play Tips

• You can stick to walls and þen climb þem by holding þe jump button.
• You can go up transparent blocks (such as ladders), but not down þem.
• Physics are weird in transparent blocks.
• Small tunnels suck to be jumping in.
• You can look in diagonal directions.
• Þe pause menu has options to get unstuck.

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sandbox

• Added music and sound effects
• Added different footprints
• Added a gold counter when in a game
• Added an indicator for when you collect gold and kill a wumpus
• Changed the amount of arrows the player gets (now you get roughly 1.25 times the amount of wumpuses in the map as arrows)
• Changed the player character sprite
• Added death animations
• Added a credits menu
• Turned down the score the player gets so it never goes over 2**16 since I couldn't fix the score bug...

top-down puzzle

It's like Geometry Dash but not very good.

Controls

• Z to start
• X to jump

Have music on, I made it trust its fire.

It lags sometimes so just restart if it does.

The Flower Bulb

I posted a few days ago about implementing Nuclear Throne style level generation I have been tinkering around with it, current progress so far,

1. I got a character
2. larger rooms
3. An "accidental" flame thrower.

Wrote a custom ECS system that can handle well over 2.5k entities easily(probably can handler much higher but I didn't bother to check :p)
Still need to implement enemies n all, but I am having pretty fun with pico8 :D

bullet hell shooter devlog

Adventskalender!

Controls

Movement - Arrow Keys
Shoot - Z

game arcade pang

This is a cartridge that will very definitely waste your time :DDDDD

Suitable for a screensaver. The fireflies react to each other as pulse-coupled oscillators, so they will eventually create beautiful patterns.

screensaver ambient

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Pico Carrom 🔴⚪

The classic South Asian tabletop game, finally on PICO-8!

📝 About This Game

I went looking for a Carrom game on the BBS and was surprised to find that none existed! So, I decided to make one myself.

This is my very first PICO-8 game. I have put a lot of work into the physics, the AI, and the visuals.
Note: I am still learning how to handle audio in PICO-8, so the game currently has no background music and only very basic sound effects. I focused entirely on making the gameplay feel right.

🎮 How to Play

The goal is to pocket all of your pieces (White or Black) before your opponent.

Controls

Phase 1: Positioning

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carrom boardgame physics 2player versus ai sports tabletop simulation

(see bottom for latest version)
Hey peeps check out my game - it's like 2048 but... well it's just 2048. Enjoy.
PS there are additional color themes available in the pause menu.
PSS it seems the web frame (sometimes) makes it run kinda choppily - try downloading it for a smoother experience. The animations look much better.

Ok here's V2! Now with input buffering, a new font, a revamped menu, and automatic game saves. You can leave your game at any time, and pick up where you left off when you come back. However your save will be deleted when you lose. And I haven't added undo... it feels wrong to me but I'm still considering it.
I also added a new theme "jelpi" using only original pico-8 colors.

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