Inspired by classic arcade shooters and minimalist design, OBSI transforms Space Invaders into a tense, strategic challenge controlled with just one button. Master the "Magic Combo"—tap to dodge, hold to charge, release for a devastating shot and speed burst. Every gesture is a risk/reward decision!
How to Play:
The player character automatically moves left and right rebounding from the screen edges and shoots 2 bullets per second.
Press Button and Release: Emergency dodge, reverse direction and reset shooting time
Hold Button: Slow down and charge a power shot
Release (after charging): Fire a charged shot and reverse at high speed
Keep Holding Button (after charge is complete): enter burnout state, player is invincible but cannot shoot or change direction for a fraction of a second.
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My entry for the December 2025 The Eye Jam.
THEME : Descent
A short, minimalistic and somewhat basic endless runner made in PICO-8 over the course of a week.
It is the time of harvest & the Scyphon has returned to Earth to collect the fruit of its labour. How deep can you get & how long can you hold out against the Scyphon before the inevitable becomes inevitable...
Created by Craig Hupin (aka. Althar93) using the PICO-8. All code, art, sounds & music is original & made during the jam.
Version history :
v1.0.2
- Fixed out-of-bounds map being rendered
- Changed scoring from time to depth
v1.0.1
- Fixed occasional crash on bullets being destroyed
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DOPICOWARS
DopicoWars is a turn-based trading and survival game
made for the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Inspired by the classic Drug Wars by John E. Dell,
this game reimagines the core mechanics with a
minimalist retro style, added risk management,
and a challenging loan system.
⚠️ DISCLAIMER
This game does NOT promote the sale or use of drugs.
All content is fictional and presented as an
economic strategy challenge.
GAME OBJECTIVE
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It looks like if you run an app sandboxed, it doesn't handle the /appdata/bbs redirection for file change notifications. That is, a handler like this:
on_event("modified:/appdata/festive_lights/config.pod", function()
self:refresh_config()
end) |
...doesn't fire while sandboxed. It also doesn't work if you try the direct path to the BBS appdata:
on_event("modified:/appdata/bbs/festive_lights/festive_lights/config.pod", function()
self:refresh_config()
end) |
This is preventing Festive Lights from updating its lights when the config program saves changes (you have to kill the program from About since the Quit button doesn't work either).
As seen here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153528
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Cat doing cat things in "cat-astrophe".
We do not have enough funny cat-video's in the gif-section.
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Flea Bounce
Premise
If you have played Hollow Knight: Silksong you may be familiar with the fleas and their shenanigans. It turns out, after you help Fleamaster Mooshka and his entourage you may be invited to some peculiar festivities...
This is a small demake of the Flea Bounce minigame of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Luckily Krat is not in sight... the fluffy fleas are eager enough to be bounced off of over and over again without him!
Control Hornet with some of her moves and try to stay in the air as long as you can, using the fleas to pogo up again and again.
How to play
To stay in the air, you have to hit the fleas on the head. Press Circle to start your attempt.
In game:
- Strafe left and right using the left and right arrows.
- Press Circle in the air to double jump. This replenishes when you hit a flea!
- Hold Circle in after your double jump to glide.
- Press X to slash downwards.
Don't worry. Hornet does use the reaper's crest here.
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LLL
LLL is a puzzle game created for the Pico-8 2025 Advent Calendar event that challenges players to direct lasers at holiday lights in an effort to logically get them all to light up with the least amount of tools possible.
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In Darkhold, you can move only in the dark. Turn on the lights to plan your path, turn them off to move. A small top-down puzzle with one rule: darkness is power.
5 levels of simple but tricky challenges.
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ice cream
(290 chars)
r=rrectfill o=16 function e(a,b,t)return a+(b-a)*(1-(1-t)^3)end function b(t)return t%2>=1 and e(0,8,min(t*2%2,1)) or e(8,0,min(t*2%2,1))end::g::k=1.5*t()l=k+.5 ⧗=b(k)⬅️=b(l)cls(8)color(7)camera(-64,-64)for n=-5,4 do for m=-5,4 do r(n*o+⧗,m*o+⬅️,8,8)r(n*o+8-⧗,m*o+8-⬅️,8,8)end end flip()goto g |
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Concept:
- A space cat named Biscuit needed a quick job to pay rent. The first one she could find was with a company called MineStroid, it's well known how this company cares more for their rare astroid minerals than their employees. Nonetheless Biscuit has bills to pay.
Gameplay
- Collect resources by mining the astroid.
- Basic combat
- find enough resources to meet quota + enough fuel to get to the next astroid
Dec 18th 2025
Build 1
Currently In Game
- Player Movement
- Partial Map
- Item Pickup Code
- collision (needs adjustment)
- Star RNG (took way too much time and still WIP)
- Death Screen 0 (WIP)
- Camera follows Player but not out of bounds
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Have you got the error message when running your saved cart saying
#include file too long
You can optimize the code token and size by using shrinko8 tool. Copy the code bellow the the file, save as cmd and run it.
:: Run Shrinko8 to minify the cart python shrinko8.py game.p8 game_shrinko.p8.png --minify --count :: Run PICO-8 and run the minified PNG start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\PICO-8\pico8.exe" -run "game_shrinko.p8.png.p8.png" ::pause |
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This is maybe less of a bug report and more of a feature request.
I'm working on several apps that shouldn't be run multi-instance. I want to inform the user if they habitually double-click the .p64 when an instance is already running, and then exit. This is to prevent, for example, multiple copies of the same dock taking up resources.
I've investigated a few approaches, and none seem to be completely reliable:
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Check
/ram/system/processes.podfor another process with the same path: Seems to work fine unless you run a separate copy of the cart (i.e. you're running from your local drive and you double-click the one on bbs://). The issue can be seen in the web player here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153528 - Check
/ram/system/processes.podfor another process with the same or similar filename: Could be flaky and return false-positives or false-negatives. Would have false-positives if someone names their cart similarly, or false-negatives if the user renames the cart that's being checked for.
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update with all the new features! enjoy!
-new features & tweaks:
-32bit integer scoring for bigger and better numbers
-nicer explosions with fillp()
-new enemy type with unique attack pattern
-slightly different scoring (better in my opinion) with +score for bullet hits,different small star drop counts & different (and bigger) enemy scores
-bullet fire rate increases as you get more big stars in super mode
relevant for this version only:
-if you get a score over 1000000 then the UI doesn't overlap
Cosmic Clankrs is a tiny, retro-ish shmup with modern-ish features and mechanics
controls:
x to shoot,
z to bomb if you have any big stars
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Controls & Settings
x - shoot
z - confirm/bomb
Arrow keys - move the player or the selection
While the game was designed to be played on Normal dificulty, you can adjust it to be less or more challenging if you desire.
The game can be switched from English to Spanish in the options menu. Please make me aware of any translation errors in either language.
Overview
Aliens are attacking! Defend your ship from various enemy waves and upgrade it in this arcade shmup. Aim for a new highscore, defeat the final boss or uncover all the upgrades available for your ship!
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