In a world where all lawn mowers have become non-functional for some reason, only a single cat can be relied on to mow your lawn.
This game is comprised of 10 puzzles where the player must mow all tall grass and obtain a key and get to the next level, all with sliding ice puzzle mechanics.
This is my first game using Pico8 and first game in general. I'm happy with the current result and would love any feedback. I have been very humbled by what it takes to make a decent puzzle. It's unlikely that I'll make another puzzle game in the near future but this was a fun first experience.
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I am sooo close to finally finishing this, after seeing some images from Trog and Heracleum and being inspired so much by their Dinky Kong, I continued where they stopped and am almost done my Dinky Kong Jr. Here's some images of me testing it:
getting that rope climbing logic was a challenge since it needed 12 pixel spacing and not the usual pico8 8-pixels.
you can plsy MY VERSION HERE:https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=157494
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Started learning Pico-8 slowly during the later part of 2025.
Decided to have a crack at a first game this year. I have a work in progress game called "Hungry Otter"
Spent most of my time with the graphics and gameplay, no sound yet.
Game is kinda like a gather all items on screen. Still simple, player wins once minimum score is reached.
Endless if player gets all items within time limit. Keeper throws new set every time screen is cleared.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Hiii this is my first game uwu
Be warned it immediately begins use the D-pad you'll figure it out!
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minor update: 05/21/2026
- removed "clear save data" option from pause menu (I hit it by accident and got angry and forgot why i put it there in the first place)
- add payout guide to the pause menu for ease of access
What is this? Haven't I seen it before?
This is a fork and update of a game I made some months ago called Grid Shift Poker. I guess you could call this a sequel? Anyway, after messing around with the previous version of the game I realized the whole wager / dealer competition system wasn't the most fun way to use the grid shift mechanism. Also someone correctly pointed out that if you tried to get a flush every hand it was nearly a guaranteed win. I knew I wanted to make some changes after that and what I ended up going with felt significant enough to call it a new game.
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minor update: 05/21/2026
- removed "clear save data" option from pause menu (I hit it by accident and got angry and forgot why i put it there in the first place)
- add score guide to the pause menu for ease of access
What is this?
In a shameless attempt to maximize my ROI on the "poker in a grid" concept, I also whipped up this new version of Poker Solitaire called "Pico Poker Squares". Shoutout to icegoat and misc who had this idea before me.
How to play:
Goal: Build the highest-scoring 5x5 poker grid.
You are dealt one card at a time from a shuffled deck. Use the arrow buttons to move the card around the grid and place the current card into any empty space. Once placed, a card is locked in. You can "undo" only your most recent move.
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I might be going out on a limb here, and I’m not sure if this goes against the philosophy of PICO-8, but I could really use a proper debugger.
In most languages, you have tools that let you pause execution, inspect variables, and change them while running. Even developing for older systems like the Commodore 64 has debugger support these days, and I’ve gotten used to working that way.
Right now, printh() only goes so far, and stop() doesn’t seem to let you inspect variables. At best you can step through frame by frame instead of line by line, unless you scatter printh() calls everywhere. That quickly fills up the log and makes it hard to read what’s going on. I’ve tried it, and it gets messy fast.
I know a lot of carts have been made without a debugger, but I keep running into situations where things get complicated and side effects make it hard to figure out what’s happening.
What would really help is something like breakpoints in the code editor, plus a separate panel where you can inspect variables, either as a tree or by typing them directly.
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tried making a desktop from a tutorial but have an old version...so it's just this. for a friend.
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Night City
by dirtylizard74
It's been nighttime in Night City for a long time… too long.
Someone's gotta make this right. You're a ghost — you didn't amount to much in life, but the afterlife brought you a second chance, and a job.
Run the rooftops, collect moon dust, and survive long enough to face down whatever's keeping this place in eternal darkness.
⬅️ / ➡️ — move
⬇️ — duck under antennas
❎ — jump. Hold to float
🅾️ — shoot (costs moon dust)
Design Overhaul: Update - v1.1
- Hand-drawn parallax skyline replaces the procedural background.
- All foreground buildings redrawn: garage, market, diner, clocktower, apartments, each with per-run variation.
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A little randomly generated boulder pit for idle sokoban fun. Promises none of the tight cerebral experience of its namesake, just the tactility of pushing boulders onto targets. one button resets the level to a random one, the other one makes the character yell, which is useful if you get stuck or frustrated.
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Hello all! I'm brand new to Pico-8 and have been having a blast. For my first game, I've made a demake of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. I gave myself a time limit of 1 week (which became 2), to force myself to finish the game, and it's the very first game I've actually completed using any software.
The game has two modes: Score Attack and Time Attack. The timed mode gives you 3 min to score as much as possible and the score mode gives you three lives.
Music is by me!
Hope you all enjoy the GLORY of PICOMETRY WARS: RETRO DEVOLVED!
Version 1: Now autofiring and strafing!
Projectiles now autofire, so you don't have to hold down X! I removed the firing sfx as well since it became somewhat annoying when it was out of player control, and it ate up a bunch of sound channel space. The X button now strafes instead! Thanks to BlinkyMcGoo for suggesting the change!
Added pause between player death and high score screen. Thank you JamesWoodwright!
Version 2: Bugfix!
Fixed bug to clean up timers to prevent multiple timers spawning enemies when playing multiple games.
Version 3: High Scores!
Added option to mode select screen to view high scores.
Version 4: Laser Sounds and Move to Shoot! (And annoying greens!)
Added back in the blaster sounds, but made the change that when you are still, you don't fire lasers. This was done for the following reasons:
- The blaster is more fun with sounds However...
- The blaster sound is not fun with no player control. Just having constant blaster sound at all times while playing if you're not in control of it is annoying.
- It encourages movement around the screen, which most likely you're doing the whole time anyway. Since there's no twin stick, there's no way to aim without moving the ship.
I also improved the green square's AI. You may have noticed with firing all the time that if you stood still, the green squares literally couldn't get close enough to you to be a threat since they were all dodging. Well not anymore! They'll only dodge if the lasers would come closer to them, making them much more like in the original game.
Version 5: Cartridge image update and bugfix
Added a more official looking cart image with the title and fixed a bug where stars would not appear in timed mode sometimes.
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ABOUT
My own remake of Arkanoid, powered by Pico-8. Made from myself through Lazy Devs Academy's Pico-8 Hero tutorial via YouTube.
HOW TO PLAY
Bounce n' Blast your way through 12 unique levels, armed only with a flaming ball that hungers for total brick destruction! Equip yourself with 8 different powerups from special bricks, but be careful which one to equip, one may slow you down.
Your mission: conquer all 12 levels, reach crazy combos, and obtain the highest score! But keep your ball from falling into the abyss. Lose all your lives, ITS GAME OVER!
Once you have lost, you have the option to continue forward without your score or restart again to win back your score. For the best results, reach to the very end without losing all your lives.
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