Hello everyone!

This is my first PICO-8 game that I've created, and it's for my portfolio website! It's a super simple arcade-style keep-up game using my personal branding. The objective is to earn as many points as possible.

I may or may not come back and add music and more SFX, but we'll see.

Controls

• Use left and right arrow to move the couch
• Use X to have lazy dive downwards, which allows him to bounce higher

Notes:

• Every 5000 points nets you one extra life
• Bats spawn more frequently every minute and a half

Acrisolar

Hi! I'm publishing Acrisolar, a Raycaster I made last year:

How to play:

• Z / C / 🅾️: Shoot / Press near doors to complete the level or destroy secret walls
• X / V / ❎: Change weapons
• Arrows: Move

Development:

If you're like me, interested in the dark magics of Raycaster engines, then I recommend Lodev and Permadi articles. Both are good places to start, but beware:

• Lodev's article will make some math-heavy steps that have subtleties that I would prefer explained. For example: I still don't understand the optimization that allows no-need for fisheye correction.

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voici mon tout premier jeu. C'est un essai, n'hésitez pas à me faire un retour.

au del des sentiers

tiny canvas

a little resizable codeart widget with (partially) optimized with userdatas for better cpu usage. all 4 code arts are just things others have made that i converted to picotron + 64x64 and tried to make use less cpu for the tooltray. the arts are as following:

1 - bubble universe by MovieVertigo (11% cpu)
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=192239#p

2 - colorful growing ovals by zep (5% cpu)
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=170946#p

3 - twirl by zep (8% cpu)
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=156980#p

4 - shimmerscale by kosm0naut (16% cpu)
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=139933

controls:

1, 2, 3, 4 - switch art

scrollwheel/arrowkeys - change screen size

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A PICO-8 Mega Man Fangame

Featuring:

• Accurate Mega Man sound and game feel!
• Title, Select, and Stage music by yours truly!
• Four Robot Master stages and one Wily Stage!
• E-Tanks!
• Checkpoints!

Controls:

• Left/Right Arrows - Move
• Up/Down Arrows - Climb Ladders
• Z - Jump, Select Stage, Use E-Tank
• X - Shoot, Select Weapon
• Enter - Pause, Select Weapon

Special Thanks to:

• Flowme, heavily based my Mega Man sprites off of theirs
• donbattery, spritesheet drawing function
• merwok and JadeLombax, both helped me better understand data encoding

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This is a simple fork of Sokoblox that saves your progress.

Continue

Once you have beaten some levels, the first option on the title screen will change to continue, taking you to the last level you were playing.

Reset Level / Clear Progress

I disabled ❎ to reset levels, as it didn't work properly (even on the original cart).
Instead, use the option I added to the pause menu.

I also added an option to clear your progress.

Again, this is a very simple mod.
I only added less than 20 lines of code to the original cartridge.
Everything else still works, including loading from passwords.

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bbs//scan

bbs//scan will ignorantly try to load carts from bbs by their #id. It takes advantage of the LOAD(#id) function to try to guess a valid cart id. Most of the time you will get a "Download Failed" message, but sometimes you hit a valid cart id and find a fantastic game on the bbs! Its like splore if it only had a "feeling lucky" mode ... and most of the time you aren't lucky.

Use the bbs//scan button in the start menu to return to the bbs//scan tool and keep searching.

This scan found the cart "pentatoy - experimental music grid thing" by cardboard_box at #id #46197

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English

Spanish

ROOT // PRTCL

ROGUE-NET RUNNER - Intro

Basic Tutorial: How to Play

Navigating the net requires tactical precision, resource management, and code decryption. Here is a quick breakdown of your toolset:

1. The Global Network Map

From the overworld map, you choose your path across active nodes, black-market stations, and high-risk targets. Your ultimate goal is to breach GEN_SYS.

RAM Management: Keep track of your system RAM to execute illegal programs like SCAN or SPOOF.

Alarm Levels: Every action increases system alarm. If it hits 100%, your connection is forcefully severed.

2. Breach Protocols (Puzzles)

When you connect to a hostile network node in ROOT // PRTCL, you will face one of four randomized hacking interfaces. Here is a quick guide on how to solve each breach protocol:

A. Mastermind

Objective: Deduce the secret 4-digit numeric sequence before your history/attempts run out.

Controls: Use Left/Right to move the cursor between digits, and Up/Down to rotate numbers (0-9). Press O to submit your guess.

Feedback: After each submission, small indicator bars appear next to your guess: exact matches (right number, right position) vs. partial matches (right number, wrong position).

Assist: Use your auxiliary SCAN program to automatically reveal digits of the secret sequence if you get stuck.

B. Matrix Buffer

Objective: Extract a sequence of numbers from a 4x4 grid that matches the target code.

Controls: Navigate the active row or column using the directional keys, and press O to extract the selected number into your buffer.

Feedback: Selection alternates automatically between row and column axes with every pick. Selecting incorrect numbers or failing the sequence triggers an alarm penalty.

C. Route

Objective: Guide your data packet step-by-step across the grid to reach the target marker [M] at position (4,4).

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My (overdue) submission for the PICO-1K jam, made in 921 compressed bytes. There's more opportunity to make it smaller but I opted for readability.

Collect stars and aim for a high score!
Use the arrow keys to move around, and ❎ for a small speed boost after collecting a star.
Collecting stars builds up your combo, and higher scores makes more stars.

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UPDATE:

I ported a lot of my game mechanics from my bigger Playdate game to this over the last couple weeks, the feedback has been real helpful. Expanded version can be found here:

RALAsutura

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159721

https://solmare.itch.io/ralasutura

Thank you all.

CREDITS

Made by Solmare with PICO-8.

Art is Gustavo Vituri's [8x8] Isometric TRPG Asset Pack, recolored for PICO-8's palette.

RALA-8 © 2026 Solmare. All rights reserved. Art © Gustavo Vituri, used under license.

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WHATCH NUMBER GO UP

This is a little teaser for two picotron projects i'm working on. the first is called STONKgrounds, and will be a stock graph sandbox where you can create gifs like this. The second wilL be picostocks in which i'll be attempting to make a scoresub-based stock market using distributed consensus, but that may take a while.

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À l’occasion de la publication de PICO-PICO Donjon, nous tenions à vous adresser quelques mots sur cette aventure.

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Hamano :

Aller au bout d'un projet, c'est quelque chose qui m'est très difficile.

Alors, je suis très heureux et fier que l'on ait quelque chose de satisfaisant à vous présenter, malgré le mois de septembre qui fût chargé pour nous deux !

Quand j'ai découvert Pico-8, il y a quelques années, j'ai tout de suite été passionné par : son concept, sa simplicité apparente qui cache une telle profondeur si on souhaite s'y investir. Sa palette cosy également.

Dans un coin de ma tête, j'ai toujours voulu développer un jeu sur Pico-8, mais je n'avais aucune idée de quoi faire. Alors, quand June m'a proposé de participer à la Jam pour qu'on remette nos patounes sur Pico-8, j'ai sauté sur l'occasion !

J'ai déjà tenté d'apprendre avec un tutoriel, mais le fait de le suivre à la lettre me donnait un résultat impersonnel et j'ai fini par lâcher l'affaire. Cette fois-ci, on a pu s'entraider mutuellement, c'était chouette ! Je suis quasiment parti de zéro, mon expérience dans le code de jeu vidéo étant quasi-nulle. June m'a appris énormément de choses et j'ai progressé assez vite, grâce à sa patience. Plus on avançait dans le projet, plus j'apprenais de choses et plus c'était grisant de mettre ma contribution au code.

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Flap off into space as you try to escape the terrible tubes of Pipe Planet. Galactic Gull is a pixel bird flapping game that adds some new ideas to the Bird Flapping game genre. In this advenutre you'll find evil pipes which move, Zurbo's Zupplies (a reasonably priced upgrade shop), auto pilot and other fun features. A short fun game made with my Flappy Bird Game Engine called Parakeet. Feathers to the Sky!

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Français

Voici un donjon tout à fait normal, rempli d’orques, de mandragores, de gnomes, de choix multiples (et inconsidérés)… et ils n’attendent que vous. Bonne chance !

PICO-PICO Donjon est un jeu motivé par la PICO-1K Jam 2026, dépassant allégrement la limitation principale de la jam. Néanmoins, nous l’avons réalisé durant le mois de septembre et sans aucun asset pré-calculé.

J'espère que vous vous amuserez autant que l'on s'est amusé à créer ce jeu !

English

Here's a dungeon totally normal, filled with orcs, mandrake, gnomes, multiple choices (and reckless)… and theyre only waiting for you ! Good luck !

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A SIMPLE PONG GAME

Controls

(O) - play

(X) - themes

UP/DOWN scroll

(O) - choose theme

RIGHT - controls

(O) - invert controls

(X)/(O) - P1 paddle (default)

UP/DOWN - p2 paddle (default)

Rules

The ball will bounce on the paddles until it goes past one player's paddle, and the other person will get a point. In a match, the first one to get to 5 points wins the round. Also, the most important rule is to have FUN!

Behind the scenes

This was a really hard project for me to make, considering I am young and new to coding. I hope you play this with as much joy as i do, as this took over 3 days to figure out. One thing in general that was very hard to make were the menus, as they are really hard to make for me. it was also hard figuring out how to get the ball to bounce off of the paddle, and not just go completely through it. nonetheless, I hope you enjoy this game I made!

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A while back i made a post about my monster catching game Ocimons. While development of that game is on hold indefinitely, I wanted to release a new version of the compression algorithm I made for monster sprites in the game. It is heavily based off the compression algorithm used in the gen 1&2 pokemon games for the same purpose.

This build is very in-dev, it is not token optimized and it may be a pain to integrate into a project as of now. My next goal for the project will be making a compressor-only cart to facilitate that end of the tool, and a lua file containing a minified decompressor that can be added to your project with a single include statement. After that id like to release a new version of the compressor with smarter compression, palettes, and encoding. Encoding will allow sprites to work better with the compression algorithm.

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