After exploring some C64 games I found a 2016 production called "Guns 'n' Ghosts" from Georg Rottensteiner & Trevor Storey witch I immediately fall in love with. It's a very arcade Bubble Bobble-like game with zombies and guns, you can play a character equipped with a double barrel shotgun you reload one cartridge a time by standing still.
This mechanic of gameplay remind me the something about the first Doom games with the same type of shotgun and satisfaction with reloading animation I felt back in the early nineties.
So one week end I started this as a Pico Guns 'n' Ghost version. Eventually it turns into something else but with this core reload mechanic and zombies off course.

I've been using the 64-bit raspberry pi version of pico-8 (0.2.7) on Asahi Linux running on a mac. I exported a game to html using "export index.html" on the pico-8 console, and everything seemed to work, but when attempting to play it (on itch), the game just showed an empty grey screen after the play button was pressed. The browser console printed the error "Uncaught SyntaxError: illegal character U+0000"
I exported the same file using Linux on x86-64, and that worked without issue.
a little racing game created for pico-1k 2026
press x to accelerate and arrows to steer
pass checkpoints to get more time!
see how far you've driven in the top left
the game ends when time runs out
(it keeps counting down after zero, no space left to fix that)
reset the cart to play again on a different track!
update 1: fixed a glitch where one line of the car's gfx wasn't drawn by changing a '109' to '108'. this actually reduced the compressed byte count from 1024 to 1022 bytes
update 2-4: fixed p8.png cover image and label

Cliffside 2 Long!
It's basically just Cliffside 2 and Celeste 2 Long put together!
This took a bit of looking around
(I didn't want to explain all the differences completely, so I put it here…)
just ignore everything after __gfx__
I added zeros to certain areas to replicate what Celeste 2 Long does.
my last minute submission for the 1kb jam
based on a horror concept i thought of while at work; i may flesh out the story and game to a full project sometime
1017/1024 compressed bytes
function c(d,b,f)o={}
for i in all(d)do
for j=7,0,-1do
add(o,(ord(i)&1<<j)>>j)end end
m=0while #o>0do n=0
for i=b-1,0,-1do
n+=deli(o,1)<<i end
f(m,n)m+=1end end
pal({128,130,133},1)
c("¹@\0\0¹@\0\0¹@\0\0\0\0▮\0\0\0ヒャ➡️す\0\0\0\0\0@ᵉl웃dᵇナ¹@⁶ナ¹@ᵇナ¹@\0\0\0⁴\0\0∧せar\0\0\0⁷fナᵇてあノᶠユᵇナᵇユ⁶ナᶠユᵇナ\0\0¹\0⁴\0▥すdqᶜp\0ᵉ🅾️さᵇizノ「$ᶠユ」▮ᵇユ•ノᶠユ\0\0\0▮¹\0コキ█▒\n`\0\rセム hz⬆️ᶠナ「$⁷ら)\0ᶠナ•ノ\0⁴⁴\0%そゃセ░░³ら\0zタス⁶%x…⁷pᵇオ⁶ら¥…⁷…ᵇオ⁴⁴\0¹iuみ▥dd⁷…¹ホい▤⁶■@p²█⁵…²█⁶ら²█⁶…⁴\0▮\0‖tへ4a ◀⬆️²ハいh¹‖p@\np*⬆️\np\n…\np*⬆️\0\0\0▮\0\0vv!!⁵p⁶aあd¹‖t@¥",2,function(i,n)sset(i%128,i\128,n)mset(i%3,i\3,9)mset(i%3+13,i\3,9)mset(i&15,52+i\16,9)end)
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Quick little tweetcart demo (138 characters) resembling fast loaders from the days of the microcomputer.
Also minor flashing lights warning
c=0::l::for i=0,127do line(0,i,127,i,i+c)end rectfill(8,8,119,119,1) ?"pico-loader\nby y_puffle\n\n\nloading...",42,16,12 c+=2flip()goto l |
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Submission to Falling Block Jam 2026!
https://itch.io/jam/falling-block-jam-2026/
Art by paudge. @audpxl on IG.
Really loving this tool so far. It's even more amazing to see the work others have done. Here's to more bits and boops down the road.
Music is a chip-tuned reimagining of the Chinese folksong "Jasmine Flower" from Turandot.





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