My game Missile in a mineshaft works great on phone, browser, Miyoo mini. But the ore collection* doesn't seem to work on a player's "anbernic rgcubexx with muos". Is there a resource that I can check to understand these sort of bugs better?
*The code checks for an explosion using pget and reads the colours then places a black patch over the top. I wonder whether it's a timing issue where the black patch lands before the colour is checked but there's no way for me to test other than sending files to the player for them to check.
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Code Golf Snake
I wanted to make the game snake in as few tokens as possible, and got it down to 192!
Some strategies I used:
- No cls(), instead the tiles around the snake are cleared.
- Condensed equations (x=2,y=3 became x,y=2,3)
- Some jank (spr(,x,y) == spr(0,x,y))
If you can optimize it more please let me know, this really was as condensed as I could get it. Some areas I feel probably could be done in less tokens are the controls code and some of the nested if statements.
Lmk what you think!
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A city-building game for those who love cities! Urbanitas gives you..
- A compendium of over 500 paw-crafted buildings!
- Maps up to over 10,000 tiles large! (*)
- In-depth simulation of your city's economy and your citizens' satisfaction!
- A system of socio-economic progression that brings both challenges and rewards to your developing city!
- Cultural and scientific developments that unlock new potentials in your city!
- Comprehensive data visualization to help you understand your city better!
..so you can build the world-class metropolis of your dreams!
(..and to share with your friends! Just export your city from the system menu and copy the CityExchangeString to a friend!)
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Grappeloid
Asteroids, but with a grappling hook. A physics simulator that lets you use your ship's mass and velocity to fling asteroids into other asteroids. Smash them into smaller bits to collect resources to upgrade your ship.
WIP
I'm new to pico-8, and this is my first game. I could really use some playtesting and feedback. I've been working hard to make it feel fun to use the grappling hook to traverse and manipulate the asteroid field, but it takes some practice. I'd recommend keyboard and mouse which allows for strafing, but it isn't completely necessary.
Controls
Pico-8 controls:
- Arrows to aim your ship (stick is easier than a d-pad)
- ❎ to fire thrusters
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Flappy Bird (PICO-8)
A tiny retro remake of the classic one-button flyer, built entirely from 8x8 tiles. This is my first game, so go easy on me! Tap the X or O button to make the bird flap — let go and gravity takes over fast, so timing is everything. Weave through the gaps in the pipes without clipping the top, bottom, or floor to rack up your score. Miss one, and it's game over — press the button again to jump right back in.
How to play:
X or O button — flap / start / retry
Each pipe you clear adds 1 to your score
Touching a pipe, the ceiling, or the floor ends the run
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The perfect shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroid
(164 chars)
r,stp,w=32,2,2/3poke(0x5f2c,7)camera(-64,-64)function ast(t)return (r^w-t^w)^(3/2)end::_::for x=-32,0,stp do line(x,-ast(-x),x+stp,-ast(-x-stp))end?"\^1\^c5" goto _ |
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Added back the tilemap and improved the fog/darkness made the player crouch and finally cleaned up some code, things have been going great and I cant wait to actually start making a game, I've always loved the little hidden areas in nsmbw or in animal well.
(Should I just keep updating this post? I feel like this isnt a gif anymore but a devlog page)
(9/7/2026)
Testing physics for a game, will soon provide the code as a playable cart, since I have some questions about the quality of the code. have a lucky day!
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A recreation of Bouncing Ball (1953) — one of the earliest known real-time graphical computer games.
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Kivikilpa
Four boards. Two players. One rule that changes everything: every move you make must be made twice.
Move a stone peacefully on your home board, then use that same direction and distance to push aggressively on another. Lose all stones on any board and you lose the game.
The game rewards patience, punishes greed, and demands you think two moves ahead.
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Combine the clocks until there is only one clock showing 12 o'clock.
Write your own puzzles and share with other players.
This was written for the Pico-1k Jam 2026, in which games have to use a maximum of 1024 bytes of compressed Pico-8 code. This game uses 1023 bytes. There was no room for niceties like a title screen, level selector, in-game instructions, etc.
Paste a Puzzle
Before you can play, you have to paste a puzzle into the game:
Copy the text of one of the puzzles below, or a puzzle you wrote yourself, or received via social media.
In the browser:
- Click to focus on the game
- Paste the puzzle into the browser's clipboard via the browser's Edit > Paste menu item.
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What's this? A mixtape from your friends?? Amazing!
.✧˖°.Track List.✧˖°.
- Here Beside You
- Before You Go
- Isekai
- Strawberry Crepes Forever
.✧˖°.About.✧˖°.
Retro Rewind is part of the Tomodachi 8-in-1 collection, along with Revolutionary Girls and Spooky Stylin'. You can get the full bundle on itch https://illuminesce.itch.io/tomodachi-8in1 , which even contains some chapters not yet released on the BBS! (or you can wait... they'll be here eventually)
Also, if you like my music, you can get it on my Bandcamp https://mabbees.bandcamp.com/album/retro-rewind-1
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LASER MAZE
Bend light, power up pods, and clear every level in this sleek, laser-focused puzzle game! Position and rotate your mirrors to guide the beam to its final target. To unlock the receiver, you’ll need to activate every pod on the grid and use every mirror in your inventory. Precision is key—can you master the angles?
Built under the strict 1KB code limit for the Pico-1K Jam, this minimalist title features a deterministic, seeded generator that delivers an "infinite" supply of solvable (hopefully...) levels—perfect for quick, bite-sized spatial logic sessions, even if maybe not extremely challenging in some cases.
Controls:
Z/🅾️ - to place or remove a mirror
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you can only shoot to the dead center. don't get hit by your own bullet
made for pico-1k jam 2026. the game is 1021 bytes in size
(jam is the right category for game jam games...right?)
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Russian checkers — a classic checkers variant with flying kings and mandatory captures.
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Submission for the 2026 National Film and Television School "Game Poem" Jam, September 7-8 2026
A few tiles are from the excellent Canari 8BIT TopDown Pack by Johan Vinet/Canari Games
All other art/music/programming by me
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A simple graphical / physics demo for the PICO-1K Jam 2026 which models four connected springs that each have a mass on the end. Each spring is connected to the bottom of the one above.
The top spring can be moved around using the cursor keys. If you wiggle it around you can see the cascading resonance or "whip" effect.
k = 0.3 -- this is the spring stiffness
d = 0.87 -- this is the damping
m = 5.0 -- this is the mass
x & y -- coords of the top spring
vx & vy -- velocity of the mass
rl -- is resting length of spring
The compressed byte size of the cartridge is 512. I've made very little effort to save bytes because the program is so simple in the first place.
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Updates!
This is my newest update to the Pico8 Balatro port.
In this update I've added:
- Planet cards (hand levels)
- +17 new Joker cards
- Seudo Tarot cards (I'm not in love with how I've implemented tarot cards for the 8ball, will fix later)
Controls:
- Mouse: select/drag | Holding Right click shows descriptions
- X: play/buy
- C: discard/sell
Rules:
Basically the same as base Balatro with some exclusion due to pico8 limitation + me probably being dumb.
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