i completed the cave diver tutorial and this is a test post, don´t review this cartridge like you are ign, it´s not meant to be taken seriously
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Why did I create this?
As is tradition, the first game I have to make on a new(to me) platform is a simple space shooter game.
Funny enough, this ended up being the most polished one of all my implementations so far. While I lost interest quickly with other platforms, pico-8 is just too delightful to not finish the game properly <3
Credits
Art
By me but inspired by https://kenney.nl/assets/space-shooter-redux
SFX
By Gruber Music https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=64837
Music
By snabisch https://snabisch.itch.io/free-music-sequences-for-pico-8
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Nintendo Switch Cover Art
I made a custom cover for my game, The Mine, that fits in a Nintendo Switch game card case. It was pretty easy and didn't cost much, so I'd like to share.
How to make:
- If you don't already have a case to use, they are actually purchasable at this link.
- Download a template from here
- Use an image editing software like PhotoShop or Canva to replace some of the elements in the template. All I did was put rectangles over certain things to erase and write over them or to use a different color.
- Replace all of the Nintendo logos with the PICO-8/Voxatron/Picotron ones.
- Add text where it's needed. The fonts the template uses are MarkPro and Roboto.
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A WIP mix of two classic titles: Projectile for Commodore Amiga and the classic Arkanoid.
CONTROLS
<- and -> move the paddle
Z releases the ball
X fires when the weapon upgrade is collected
GAMEPLAY
The game consists of five levels arranged in a cross-shaped layout.
You start at the southern level and then pass through gates to reach the others.
Once a level has been completed three times, it closes.
After clearing both the peripheral levels and the central one, you will face the boss fight.
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Controlls:
- Move cursor: [arrow keys]
- Scroll through shop: Y + [up/down arrow]
- Place object: X
How To Play:
It's the end of the quarter and you're behind quota. Everyone left work for the holidays and now it's up to you to make up the rest of the money.
Your goal is to reach $32,000 as fast as possible. The faster the time, the better you did!
materials
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Robot Vacuum Racing challenges you to clean up 8 levels of mess, under a grueling time limit! Are you a savvy enough robot vacuum pilot to master the hard mode? I'd love to see your high scores!
Made for the 2025-2026 #CorgiJam run by @Finji.
There are three difficulty modes: 'normal' and 'hard' have different time limits for each level, while 'free play' is a laid-back experience with no time limit.
Your robot vacuum is controlled with the arrow keys (or left joystick on a gamepad). Camera-relative controls allow you to accelerate along cardinal directions. Tank controls use left and right to rotate your vacuum, and up and down to accelerate and reverse. Time limits are different for each control mode.
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This is a short platformer game I made for my girlfriend (and our homunculus lmao). It is 17 levels long and pretty simple, but it's my first pico-8 game and I enjoyed making it a lot.
Controls
Press Left & Right to walk.
Press X to jump. Press X+Down to go down on platforms
Press Z to grab and throw bebe. You can throw him horizontally and vertically.
Press Z+Down to leave bebe back on the ground.
Press Up to interact with text signs.
Notes
Some text is in Spanish and contains inside jokes, but none is relevan for the gameplay.
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ARISE - Fast Paced PICO 8 Shmup
How to play
Shoot your way through waves of Aliens, Robots, and Enemy Spaceships to gain score.
Collect Bombs for extra firepower, and Hearts to replenish your life.
Defeat the Boss on wave 12.
Controls
Keyboard
Move: Arrow Keys
Shoot: X
Bomb: Z
Controller/Mobile
Move: D-Pad
Shoot: X
Bomb: O
Tips
Destroying an attacking enemy awards higher score.
Big enemies always drop a heart if you're at 1 life.
Notes
This is my first game, created following the Lazy Devs shmup tutorial. While I am trying to learn enough about programming to prototype and to finish small games, my main focus is game design and art. A lot of my time on this project went towards making the visual effects feel satisfying and punchy.
Changelog
v1.1: Tweaked item droprate and a few of the waves for difficulty tuning.
v1.1.1: Changed movement logic to handle input edge cases better.
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LootBox Legends (Case Opening Game).
Still have to balance on values and prices. Also let know what you think, and if there are any bugs you find.
*Make sure on first time launch to press "New Game" you can can create a save file, game auto saves on everything you do so then you can continue the game by pressing "continue game" when you get back on.
How to Play
Inventory Tab
This is the main tab where you will be able to open cases to try to collect all the items. There are 4 cases as of now. Below show what items you can win per case selected. The odds of getting a higher rarity increease with the case selected at a cost of a higher price of course, with "super case" not even having commons or uncommon items increasing chances of getting higher rarity or legendary and a standard case have no legendary but much cheaper.
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Hello!
I'm having some trouble with this screen scrolling I'm trying to implement. I'm basically copying the way the screen scrolls in the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. For some reason when I try scrolling the screen upwards the camera stutters as the scroll is finishing. The scroll is working perfectly for the other directions.
Controls are arrow keys to move, press x to open the walls once the scroll is done.
So my idea is that the game will take place in only the first map tile, and I'll generate the rooms after the screen finishes scrolling. As far as I understand it, the current order of operations is:
- Player passes a point on the side of the screen and triggers the screenscroll.
- Game state is changed so the player cannot move and the camera and player sprite scroll in the appropriate direction.
- Camera and player sprite are scrolled.
- Once the scroll is completed the map gets deleted and the player and camera are switched back to the first map screen.
- New room is generated starting with the outer walls and then the other walls.
I'm fairly certain the problem is occurring on step number 3 listed above, and only when scrolling upwards. I'm going to put what I believe to be the relevant code below.
From game update triggering the scroll:
if player.x>=120 then --right screenscroll(0) elseif player.x<=4 then --left screenscroll(1) elseif player.y<=3 then --up screenscroll(2) elseif player.y>=120 then --down screenscroll(3) end |
Screenscroll function:
function screenscroll(d) scrollt=20 if d==0 then --right camox+=128 elseif d==1 then --left camox-=128 elseif d==2 then --up camoy-=128 elseif d==3 then --down camoy+=128 end _upd=updatescroll end |
Screenscroll update
function updatescroll() t+=1 --player walks in during scroll if scrollt>0 then scrollt-=1 player.x+=camox/128 player.y+=camoy/128 end --when scroll is done if camx==camox and camy==camoy then delmap() player.x-=camox player.y-=camoy camx=0 camy=0 camox=0 camoy=0 gentimer=1 gentimer2=15 --reset position --genroom _upd=updategen else camx+=camox/64 camy+=camoy/64 end animate(player) end |
I believe that the problem is somewhere in my Update Scroll function, but I'm really at a loss for what it could be at this point. in the top left corner of the screen, the second number being printed is the Cameras Y position (camy) and the 3rd number being printed is the Cameras Y offset (camoy) which gets changed when the screenscroll is triggered. Based on what I'm seeing those numbers seem correct to me, so what could be making the camera stutter?
Apologies in advance for any sloppiness in my code, I've been teaching myself pico 8 off and on for the past year or so, and have basically no experience in programing outside of pico 8, just a little bit of python to solve Euler problems. Its incredibly fun, but I'm having a hard time ignoring this problem, and I'm really excited to start expanding the map generation.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this!
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AUTOMATRON v0.1
This is a small update where I just added a main menu system to automatron.
I plan on adding an actual goal to the game in the next update so stay tuned!
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Take a short bike to the top of the cliff.
Short puzzle made for the 2025 Confounding Calendar.
Some playtesting help from LouieChapm and Lokistriker.
Also on itchio : https://werxzy.itch.io/a-short-bike
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Hi!
I'm new to PICO-8 gaming.
I recently loved some PICO-8 games I played, notably from Adam "Atomic" Saltsman.
My favourite games are listed on my Shaarli instance there: https://chezsoi.org/shaarli/?searchtags=PICO-8
I'm French and -surprisingly- my native language is French, so I was wondering how to help the community / game authors to provide translation for games, so that French kids around me can play them :)
So: are there some recommended internationalization & localization mechanisms for PICO-8 games?
Other game engines support using gettext & .po files: Wikipedia article on Gettext. cf. also Wikipedia article on i18n & l10n.
It seems that I could just replace English words by French ones in the game card Lua code,
but that would make sharing translations difficult...
There does not seem to be any "builtin" feature for this in PICO-8,
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Shootico-8
Shootico-8 is my first game made on Pico-8. It's a traditional old-school shooter that still requires a minimum of agility if you want to get to the end of the various bosses, all in a frenetic atmosphere.
Commands
Left/Right/Up/Down Arrows to move
X to shoot
Enjoy !
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BIOME GAME!
This is a small game we made for our science class. J-F, please give us a good note
Controls
Move: arrow keys
Sprint: X
Have fun!
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Sally's Star Racers
Race and drift with Sally Neptune in her debut kart racer!
X or Z to go, left and right to steer. You can drift by releasing the gas during a turn - doing so will build up your boost meter. You will need to boost in order to win the grand prix!
Try out the time trials, and see if you can beat my times.
Made for Toy Box Jam 2025! Thanks to @thattomhall for organizing, and to the Toy Box Jam team for preparing all assets used in this game.
FYI... if you are here cuz you are interested in making a mode 7 game, you may want to check out my stripped-down boilerplate code here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=154170 . This will give you the bare minimum (1355 tokens) to achieve a mode 7 effect. It's a better starting point for making your own game than hacking this cart.
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