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TOY BOX JAM is a yearly jam where I give you all the graphics, sounds, and music, and you have to make a game with just those assets! TOY BOX JAM 2025 was the biggest ever, peaking at 901 Jammers! We got 94 game submitted. (Plus many spam games, but tried to handle those.)
Big thanks to @MaxOsirus who helped wrangle Pico-8 developers, organize the titles, and fix up the Launcher. Kudos to you! And others for encouragement to make it happen. Thanks!
The Launcher Cart's label is a chicken, because the Jammers made a lot of chicken games, and then we added more chicken graphics to support their craziness!
Thanks to @Doriencey for her great 16x16 spritesheet and overtime on chicken duty, and all the people that helped test the ARG Mystery and Jam, and thanks last to all the Jammers! You made this amazing, big, chickentastic, and fun!
HOW TO USE THE LAUNCHER
Use the left and right arrows to move between games.
Pressing X will either launch Pico-8 games, or it will copy the URL of the non-Pico-8 game into the clipboard. Just open a new browser tab, paste it in there, and hit Enter/Return to go play it. (These games won't return to the Launcher, but you can just go back to that Browser Tab.
Pico-8 games: Press Return to get the Pause Menu, then choose "Back to Launcher".
Have fun!
THE GAMES
Here are all games -- try them out!
ninjado - narcolepticfrog
seadogs - morganquirk
sally's star racers - paloblancogames
pig farm - kittenm4ster
the tower - blues_driven
free range - monkey burner
hello galaxy - squishyam
chicketron - deus tex
charon's gold - brytergames
that's not a chicken! - oldillusion
ninjoe and the reflex maze - maxosirus
critter combo - dual shocked music
robo rundown - slamb036
safety ship - jose perez
swap-geon - bluetiecasual
raz reductions - coconutmunky
books - mindlessturtle
shmup wannabe - showner
catch that chicken! - stargazersees
gravity chicken - sho nakano
30 seconds to live - dpsa_264940
batty piglet - foppygames
ninja speed runner - external
reach the star - torshi88
feed the king - domi from futurerebels
dimond hunter - mohaa07
find the gems - 31math62
turned based gumber thinker - adamavramov
star collector - desistdawdling
terminal - alejandro ciuba
wendyl's wizarding adventure - bitbionic
escape - tim-vh
ninja volley - samu1407
chicken scratch - houndfire
rozie saga - was a bee
swim_bomber - aji creators
chicky's adventure - isaac estudillo
how many? - onetruemmo
backstab - zepphireos
chik n rail - ulinsoft
chicken survivors - octoan
chicken rush - prismaticdaze
cluck rush - tai
the many adventures of mudball - upset_eastern
chicks and me - jmtu
alien shooter - dz373
chicken troubles - etfaison
for the coop & glory - murraybot
azuremission - federov
brick kick - spicem
alien invasion - w2w2w2w2
poultry party! - dumub cyberlaelaps burritobrawler
ahoy adventure! - lucasshadow1
pizak - kc00l
grand theft chicken - ruben tipparach
fishing bloke - robthedudeyo
spixeon - mega animation
the eternal spring - happy-ferret
pixelated maze - symsq
gravity girl - ronbeehive
munchling - sinnon
feathered revolution - paulinskyrulez
spike escape - andrebubniak
snakes on a plain - lusid games
chicken platformer - bluecrafter
gauntlet swipe: the lost relics - zemane
capetown caves - jazzydingo
henball - rdhagan
the haunted village - bau
don't fall rollerskating! - aufox
endure the dungeon! - siddharthabertelsie
situation normal: all clucked up! - ai864
chicken apocalypse - drazengames
game - iamdoingstuff
alien invaders - evans555666
spelunker cave jumper - philnemba
subject 886 - salmino
the medieval trader - happymao
omnidroid survivors - stranded cosmonaut
topanga quest - marcim3b
help alien - artharva_1535
bomb castle - daon_game
on borrowed time - rizv13
thin walls - vaszed877
rogue ranger rendezvous - scarlettoivr
subject: b10661 - esclate96
chicken vs alien - joe ritson
monster survival - aidan157
remold - doomboxofficial
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Controls
Tile-Swapping Mode
⬅️⬆️⬇️➡️ - Move the cursor (and its mirror!)
Z - Swap the tiles
X - Start dungeon mode
Dungeon Mode
⬅️⬆️⬇️➡️ - Move the character
Hold Z - Restart the level
Swap-Geon
You must escape the swap-geon! Beware of the danger rising up through the levels! Swap the tiles between adjacent rooms to build your path out!
Development Background
Developed as part of Toy Box Jam 2025 where all the visual and audio assets (e.g. sprites, music, sfx) are provided and participants are challenged to make a game with it.
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Hiya,
so for my current project I would like to have a countdown timer that is formatted 00:00 (minutes and seconds). In my previous projects I've just had seconds counting down, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this new format while still having it be a functional timer. Any thoughts appreciated!
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Where legends are made and kings are crowned
Generating and editing maps in picotron for some possible future game(s)
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Coming back to pico after a bit of a break. Had fun making this little frog game and making some music in pico for the first time, I think it came out okay. Hope you enjoy!
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This is the start of an RTS engine I was working on last year. I haven't worked on it a bit, and it isn't fully usable on BBS, but if you want to take it and make something with what I have here, have fun! If you do use this please credit me.
SPRTSE ("Spritzy" -- Small Picotron RTS Engine)
(Only using Lego Battles images as stand-in -- since it had everything I was wanting simplified. All was going to change when I got further along, but I kinda stopped.)
SPRTSE "Lego Battles Plus Game Test":
Here are the 2 previous carts I made to test some of the in-game mechanics.
Map Navigation:
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Swopper is a game where you "swop" blocks from place to place, doing your best to match 3 or more of them together. You play as Swopper, intergalactic spacesuit-wearing orangutan hero kidnapped recruited by extraterrestrial visitors to save their planet from a block apocalypse.
UPDATE!
Changes 10/02/26
- Made the Pickaxe more interesting by having each sparkle block increase the bonus multiplier by 1. Hopefully I didn't make it OP.
- Put the bonus multiplier in the header near the score, so you can keep an eye on it
Changes 09/02/26
- New powerup: Time Out! Time freezes, allowing you to set up big matches risk-free.
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Update 1.1 (2026-07-12):
- Decreased Redbloom price from 5 to 4
- Removed normal Fungus from store
- Added Wildflower
- Slight visual tweaks
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Controls
x to bark, and to skip next level message
left and right to move horizontally
Credits
https://www.youtube.com/@spacecat88 (very helpful tutorial)
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Ninjeste
Help Ninjaline (which is totally not just Madeline in goofy ninja costume) ascend to the top and cleanse the evil of the Tower of Juéwàng.
Controls
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Arrows to move, Z to jump. Instead of wall sliding, you stick to them instead.
- X + Arrows to smoke-bomb
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Shift + Arrows to toss a shuriken
- Enter / P to take a break
- Press Ctr+P to enter the matrix.
- Press the button on your monitor to enter sleep mode.
- Kick your computer to turn the game off and your computer forever.
Change Log
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General use TCP library for hosts and clients.
This acts as a very very basic example of usage for it.
tcp.lua is the actual library.
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Just a little shmup I'm working on with lazy devs. The personality comes the UI and little monsters.
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Hi! I'm relatively new to Pico 8, I'm now working on my third tiny game, in which I for the first time want to work with multiple levels, like a platformer. I was looking at how other games from the Splore catalogue do this, like 512px Under and Super Hat Girl. I saw both of them, in the sprite last or last two pages of their sprite editor, have these (pictured) drawings. What are these? Are they used to render levels or backgrounds? It's maybe not a huge problem, but looking around, I couldn't find an explanation myself, so I wanted to ask. Thanks!
This image comes from Super Hat Girl by Benvium.
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Lonely Soul
this game may be featured on the corgijam livestream
you play as a sad and lonely orange girl and you try to make friends in this puzzle game but you're very shy so the only ones that can help you are pretty blue boys which make you more confident in yourself and help you make more friends other than just pretty blue boys
you can look at the game controls in the pause menu!
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Picano (Electronic Piano)
Why I made this
I built Picano to learn how to make music — because audio and music are the part that scares me the most.
So I turned that fear into a fun playground: press keys, hear instant feedback, mess around, and learn by doing.
Picano is fully customisable: instruments, chords, note behavior, visuals, and tuning values can all be changed directly in the code to fit any vibe or project.
What it is
Picano is a small electronic piano / music toy made in PICO-8.
You can play single notes, trigger chords, switch instruments, and even record + replay short performances.
Features
16-key keyboard mapped to: q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h
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https://monkey-burner.itch.io/toybox-2025-test
Pico-8 entry for the toybox 2025 game jam. Controls: Arrow keys + Z/X. Enter to pause.
Credits: all images, sounds, and music, plus some code, are from the TOYBOX JAM 2025 start cartridges (https://itch.io/jam/toy-box-jam-2025) under CC-BY
Which includes:
Pico-Lib Code by That Tom Hall and the Pico-8 Community
Sprite Ideas by That Tom Hall, Lafolie, Liquidream, Toby Hefflin, Johnny Burgess, others.
Art / Animation by Doriencey, Leo, Taxicomics, Craftpix, Lafolie, Toby Hefflin, That Tom Hall, Smelly Fishsticks, Alice Stenger, thykka, Toby Hefflin, Johnny Burgess, Bikibird, Pico-8 Gamer, Archonic, Nerdy Teachers!
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