NOTE: You will need to unsandbox this (via About dialog) because it needs to access your app folder to launch apps (surprise, surprise).
Recently came across Picotron and picked it up because I love the idea of a tiny fake desktop computer. I wanted a nice way to run my downloaded programs, something better than double-clicking raw filenames in the file manager. So I made this.
Springloader is a full-screen app launcher. When you run it, it'll sit in its own workspace for easy access from just about any app, windowed or full-screen.
Features:
- Based on a central app folder. Defaults to /desktop/apps but can be changed to any location.
- Uses subfolders as categories.
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"Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming!" – Dr. Seuss
The Grinch is here to steal the gifts from Santa Claus in this vampire-survivor-like game.
Objective
Use your rotten eggs to defeat Santa's elf horde. Steal their gifts to upgrade your egg-throwing abilities and stats. Defeat bosses to upgrade your abilities even more and face Santa Claus in the ultimate Christmas showdown.
How to Play
- Move the Grinch with the arrow keys ⬅️⬆️⬇️➡️.
- Access the area map by pressing the ❎ button.
- Lock your egg-shooting direction by pressing and holding the 🅾️ button.
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CONTENT WARNING
FLASHING LIGHTS
Free interpretation of Betty Ryan's Quantum (1982).
Circle enemies to defend your space
Don't get hit
Escape QNTM dimension
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Shut The Buff is a play on the classic dice rolling game Shut The Box, with roguelite elements such as buff collection and meta progression.
-Roll the dice, flip the tabs, and try to close them all in one round
-Purchase buffs between rounds with coins equivalent to your total losses
-Balance strategy and luck to try to win in the fewest rounds
Made in PICO-8 by casualcozy
Version 1.3
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2048
Controls and rules
Use the arrow keys or dpad to slide all of the tiles on the screen in that direction. If two tiles of the same number collide, they'll combine. Each tile can only be combined once per move. While the tiles move, a new tile sneaks onto the board! Try to reach the 2048 tile, if you can.
You can turn off the music or sound effects in the start menu, or press Return.
Behind the scenes
This is my first PICO-8 game. I'm having a ton of fun learning the ropes and I can't wait to make more games. I would love your feedback on this one, please let me know what you think. I love suggestions and bug reports as well.
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A recreation of the first video game my best friend and I made when we were kids, cleverly named "untitled.exe".
It's crazy to think about how far we've come. This originally took us days of messing around with drag and drop blocks in Game Maker 6, but today I quickly (and crudely) put this together in just an hour. It's not much of a game to be honest, but it means a lot to me.
Never give up on your dreams!
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Inspired by "Adventure" for the Atari 2600, released in the year 1980. I love that old game and wanted to have a go at making a similar style game with Pico-8. I specifically wanted to make this game quickly and so I've put almost zero effort into making the code clever or readable, but if you find any game-breaking bugs please let me know.
You'll get no instructions or guides here. Go on an adventure and see what you can find!
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Left - Original
Right - Windows
On Windows exports, the red and blue color channels of the icon seems to be swapped. I assume this is cause Picotron and Windows are using different color formats (like rgba vs bgra, or something similar). I don't know if this is Windows specific or if it also applies to Mac and Linux exports.
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Enter the arena and test your skills! Pico Arena is a 2 player, top-down combat arena built with Pico-8.
Controls
up/down/left/right: movex: shooto: shieldo + direction: dash attacko + x: shield burst
Weapons
line: hitscan weapon that does 1 dmg and 1 tile of knockbackcube: projectile weapon with an area of effect damage and knockback- projectile will explode on impact, or can be exploded at any time by pressing x
- be careful not to hurt yourself with this weapon
Rock, Paper, Scissor Mechanic
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I'm trying to make Ctrl+w close the current window/tab (I'm a compulsive tab opener & closer) and I'm worried I'm massively over complicating things, so before I do anything I figured I'd ask for help.
My current view of things:
Cannibalise /system/wm/wm.lua
- Make a cart that has event subscription (and possibly pass through?) like
wm.luadoes on line 615 - Copy/paste the function
close_window_with_confirmation(win, do_kill) - Steal the logic from the
ctrl-skeybind on line 2826 - Frankenstein it all together to listen for
ctrl-w& close the tab/window
Is there something really simple I'm missing, or is that what I want to do?
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Since the PICO-8 editor and games support kana text, it'd be nice if kana in file names and paths was supported without showing as corrupted.
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About
Picodoro is a little Pomodoro timer inside Picotron.
It runs in the background so that you can focus on your work!
Hope it helps!
Behind the scenes
This is/was my first complete Picotron app!
I can't focus, so I made this simple Pomodoro app to try to do it while inside Picotron!
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It's time to spread some Christmas cheer by wiring up all your holiday lights!
- On each level you must wire up all the bulbs in a single loop.
- The wire goes straight through each bulb, never round a corner
- The colour of the bulbs along the wire must be a repeating pattern
e.g. 🔴🟠🟡🔴🟠🟡 ✅ and not 🔴🟠🔴🟡🟠🟡 ❌
Controls
- Use direction buttons 🔼🔽◀️▶️ to move Santa's hand around the grid.
- Hold 🅾️ while moving to draw or remove wire
- Hold ❎ while pushing a direction to place a mark to help you remember where wire cannot go.
In the pico-8 menu (press P), you can turn on and off the music, a reduced motion mode where the lightbulbs do not sparkle during the game, and a colourblind accessible mode where the lightbulbs are marked with letters as well their colours.
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A clock that tells the current time while looking like the cycle timer in Rain World.
There are 24 dots that correspond to the 24 hours in the day.
The dot outline for the current hour will also be greyed out depending on the current minute.
The symbol in the big circle is one used in Japan for the current day of the week. It should be different tomorrow.
You can press X to disable the clock pulsing/ticking if it gets too annoying.
I'm still very bad at pico8 programming, so the code is kinda dubious,
but I'm pretty happy that the whole cart never uses more than 3% cpu.
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Hi all, I have been waiting to hear back on getting registered as an educator/teacher for a while now and with this school term (in New Zealand) coming to an end I am getting desperate to get PICO-8 licences to the kids I have been teaching. For context, I am a librarian for a public library and run free programming courses afterschool.
I also have a pair of intensive programming workshops I am running over our school holiday in January. The long and short of it is that I want to get these licences to the kids while they are still fired up from completing projects so they can continue to develop. I am aware of the education edition, but that is a watered-down experience and I can afford to grab a bundle of discounted keys and wait to be reimbursed by my employer. However, I cannot justify buying 20 full price licenses against my budget allocation and cannot afford to do so on my own behalf.
Does anyone know of the best way to reach out to Zep? I have tried a private message on Mastodon and sent a couple of emails to the hey@lexaloffle email. I searched on here and only found an old post from years back and I don't want to start messaging Zep publicly on bluesky or anything if it can be avoided.
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🎮 Major Changes in Latest Version:
Removed:
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❌ Boss system (to match original Moon Patrol more authentically)
Fixed:
- ✅ High score now persists via cartdata
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✅ Screen shake no longer persists on game over
New Power-Ups (Now 5 types!):
- Shield - Invincibility (existing)
- Rapid Fire - Fast shooting (existing)
- Fuel Canister - +600 fuel (NEW!)
- Extra Life - Bonus life, 5% spawn rate (NEW!)
- Speed Boost - 5 seconds at max speed (NEW!)
Visual Polish:
- 💫 Floating score popups on enemy kills
- 💨 Landing dust burst on hard landings
- 🌊 Level transition fade effect (scanline style)
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