Hi Guys,
I'm a software developer by trade and got into Pico-8 development as a hobby. Naturally, I'm trying to automate the release workflow. Does anyone have a good solution for handling the Pico-8 binary legally speaking? I was considering uploading a GPG-encrypted zip file to the repository and using a repository secret to decrypt it on-the-fly, but I don't want to step on any toes doing that.
Thanks,
Max
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what is this game about brah
This is an abstract arcade game in which your goal is to gain as much score as possible and as high of a rank as possible by collecting non red stuff before etiher running out of green in your Greenometer or completing all the levels.
how do i gain the most score brah
The best way to gain score is by touching green but not red, obviously.
oh and also, if you complete level 8 with an S rank, you'll recieve 2 more levels so you can gain even more score!
the maximum mult is 300, you can't go any higher than that.
what do all the difficulties do brah
Another thing is the difficulty, with 3 in total, here's all of them in a list :
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Hello all!
I've been in love with this community and the games everyone has created since the moment I saw it. I knew then that I wanted to create something to share with you all. I am working on a game with the working title "Jelly Patrol" and I'm very excited to get it finished and out there to enjoy. Thank you for looking and I am honored to be a part of this community of independent developers and artists all coming together to share their ideas and projects. Cheers!
~Jelly
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Another Pico-8 Sketch! An Idle Screen Inspired By DVD Players
I believe it should always eventually hit the corner, based on its trajectory and starting position.
Try swapping in your own graphics!
--Triss
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Black Knife is such a cool song with so much metal in its sound, and it was fun to try to cram as much of that edge as I could into four channels for PICO-8. This is my first serious attempt at tracker music, and it ended up becoming a much more complicated project than I'd expected, but I'm reasonably happy with the result! Hope you enjoy.
Info update (8/19/26): If you're interested in how a couple of the audio tricks in this cart were done, here's an article breaking them down.
Small update (7/29/26): Looped the song and tweaked a few other things.
Credits:
Code from collinthenewmaker’s Waveform Visualizer used for the graphics:
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Randomised scale degree flashcards for all circle of fifths keys.
9, 11, and 13 are included. These are extensions above the standard scale degrees of 1-7. To get the 1-7 equivalent, simply subtract 7 from the value i.e. 9 == 2, 11 == 4, and 13 == 6.
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Submitted for the SKG 2026 Game Jam
You are Ross Scott and you're on a journey to save all video games. Nobody else is doing it so it's pretty much just you. Standing in your way exactly 2 foes: The Corporate Exec and The Second Generation hire.
​Features
​​1 awesome platforming stage.
2 or possibly 3 enemy types. Depending how you count them.
4 possible endings.
A full day/night cycle
​Enemies​
​The Corporate Exec
​​He doesn't like video games. They're nothing but cash generators for him. And the idea that he would would have to spend even a little bit more money on them is an idea he will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening.
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Are there RSS feeds somewhere for new versions of specific Lexaloffle products? I specifically want to be updated on releases of PICO-8 and Picotron.
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Arrow Keys to Move
X to Restart
You see a strange machine and activate it... It causes a glitch in time and you see an alternate version of yourself, who you can control.
Original Once Again... on Scratch
Happy 5th Anniversary of Once Again...!
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new project!!!!
spent a few months on this one; had a lot of fun with the visual effects and microoptizimation to fit the cartridge
THANKS TO MY FRIEND SPOOF FOR THE MUSIC
even tho i believe this is harder than the original fight, i plan on making a hardmode soon with alt sprites : 3
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Early alpha attempt to make a hexagonal version of the Mora Jai puzzle boxes from Blue Prince.
There's a single puzzle at the moment, but every color is implemented.
Instead of left clicking the tiles to play normally, you can right click a tile to change its color (rudimentary level edit), or right click outside the puzzle to randomly color the 7 tiles.
Feedback (or even level sceenshots) very welcome.
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Make your way past spikes to collect keys and reach the flag!
But do not forget to stop and smell the irises...
Explore to find as many of the coins as you can, to finish the game with the most points! Highscores are saved locally so you can compete against yourself or friends across multiple runs, just like a proper arcade cabinet.
This is the fully in-engine version of a game I made for CS 361 Software Engineering I, which originally handled many of its features using external Python programs, integrated through the development-only stdin/stdout serial interface. You can find the original version (and play it, if you have both pico-8 and python3) on GitHub​. This version is also available to play in-browser and as download for PC/Raspi on
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If you're not familiar with John Conway's work, click here for Wikipedia's great overview.
I wrote this to work on my coding skills with Pico-8 and it certainly taught me a lot. Watching these grids evolve can be quite absorbing, especially on larger grids.
A few notes; the maximum grid size is 99 cells in either direction. Density is how densely those cells are occupied when the grid is first generated. The simulation can detect when the population is stable and unchanging, but it's possible to end up with an astable grid that flicks between two states, and in that case you can just press button 2 to end the simulation.
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This is a fairly simple one-off character editor I threw together in a couple of hours for another project I'm working on. Using Ctrl+C copies the hex representation of the character you have selected (you may need to press Ctrl+C twice in the HTML5 export!), and Ctrl+V pastes it back into the editor. The color mode simply layers multiple one-off characters on top of each other using the backspace character.
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I've been using PICO-8 since 2020, but this is the first project I've considered finished.
It was made for the Sant Jordi Jam 2026 this past April. Today, I added some music from a free-to-use MIDI pack by punishedfelix in itch.io, music is my weakness.
The original release was a multicart. The title menu was on the first cart because I was experimenting with some palette tricks, while the game itself was on the second. Today, I decided to merge them into a single cart.
I think that the funny part was the title screen, here is a string that I export from original title cartridge with One-Off GFX by @Heracleum.
If I remember correctly, a total of 20 colors are used: the 15 main colors, plus a secondary background palette that uses color 0 as transparent, with patterns to make the most efficient use of the palette. The Painto8 tool by @BoneVolt was very helpful, along with a tool I wrote to edit the background palette and its patterns.
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A sneak peek from the demo cartridge for my new latest LSVJ tool for Pico-8! Does the tool come with the demo cover or the cover with the tool?.. I don't know :(
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