firstgame

A game for the PVGD Pico-8 Jam 2025.

A tiny anxiety inducing game. Press the direction of the green object and don't fumble under pressure

difficult arcade fast experimental

DoorNotes

My First Cartridge!

This is my first cartridge, a simple silly song. I wanted to test to see if I could have sound effects playing in sync. I don't know if it is the best way to do that, but I was happy that I got it to work.

Controls

The arrow keys open and close the doors.

Spy vs spy demake

One mission. One rival. One survivor.

Game overview

A faithful retro demake of the classic console/computer spy duel.

Collect all five secret items and escape through the airport before your rival.

Set traps to slow him down, and find antidotes to avoid his tricks.

Search furniture, outsmart your opponent, and be the first to get away!

26 levels available.

Play against human or computer.

Any feedback/suggestion is welcome.

[email protected]

Controls

Exploration mode

ARROWS: Move inside rooms

X: Search for items

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Does not work on the BBS

This game is multiple cartridges (mapdata and stage selector) - which doesn't work on the BBS.
See the itch.io or neocities for a playbale version!
https://astralsparv.itch.io/slidetrack
https://astralsparv.neocities.org/creations/play/slidetrack/

The original Slidetrack (predecessor to Slidetrack Expanded) - now open sourced!

Copied from ITCH.IO:

Slidetrack is a short relaxing game made in Pico-8 consisting of 4 stages and 32 levels.

You finish each level by solving simple puzzles to reach every tile.

Using a downloaded copy, you can save your times for each stage and speedrun the stages for the fastest times

Controls

Arrow Keys - Movement

Z - Toggle the touchscreen

X (Hold) - Restart the level

Enter - Open the menu (when in a level)

relaxing satisfying calming puzzle

My first project!
No doubt this has been done before way more elegantly but for a first go at anything coding, I am quite pleased with my attempt.

puzzle number

This is a P8 adaptation of a Tandy Color Computer 3 type-in video game called "Penguin Icarus" by Nick Bradbury. Although the level layouts are different the game play is mostly the same, but faster and with more sound effects, particles and more. The code has not been optimized!

You are a penguin in envy of the other small birds and the large metal birds that fly high in the sky. You hear rumor of wax wings atop the igloo village. You must peril dangers and climb your way to the top to fly high like an eagle!

platform reboot adventure short

nonogram

Plonk in space

A little autoshooter game for the Pico-1k Jam 2025, work in progress.

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A classic vertical shoot-em-up reminiscent of a famous space war movie. Written and created by a 9-year-old with the help of his dad.

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I'm running Pico-8 0.2.7. When I use the underline P8SCII code together with the double-wide character P8SCII code I get an interrupted line.

Also, while we are discussing P8SCII interactions, here are two odd behaviors that could also be intended behavior:

• Double-tall P8SCII code doesn't make the underline two pixels tall. I would have expected it to be so, but I would understand if this was intended.

• Outline doesn't seem to be drawn around the underline. Personally, I would prefer if it did get drawn around every foreground pixel.

p8scii

There's nothing like being a snail ridin' through a tunnel.
If you want to play this, just ask!

P.S. I'm working on Snail's Gold 2 and this is a filler.

Simple, interactive demo of a custom masking technique I was playing around with for fun.
A good example of an application of bitwise logic in computer science!

← and → to change the background fill to emulate changing opacity
(x) [x] to toggle masking effect
(o) [z] to show only the mask layer

The pulsing background is drawn into screen memory at 0x6000.
Shapes and background fill for the mask layer are drawn into memory at 0x8000 with color 15.
Four bytes each from 0x6000 – 0x7FFF and 0x8000 – 0x9FFF are compared with a bitwise AND operation (band()) and the result is written directly to screen memory.
There's not a lot to it besides that, but I thought it looked cool and wanted to share.

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I'm not quite sure this is a bug and not intended behavior, but I can't see why it would be intentional; at least for my use case, it's quite an annoying quirk that I really can't come up with any good workaround for.

Here's an example of where this gets in the way:

I started using one-off characters to insert 5x5 icons into text, but it seems that as soon as the line has ANY one-off characters, print thinks that since it could theoretically take up to 8x8 pixels, the line height should be increased to 8.

For the width of the characters, I actually just add \-e at the end of each icon, so that the icon takes up 6 pixels horizontally; but I wasn't able to find any way to correct the line height - this behavior seems to completely override \^y as soon as a one-off character is present.

(in fact, bizarelly, setting line height to lower than 6 reveals that print will actually crop away the pixels of all characters EXCEPT for one-offs, while the vertical spacing remains at 8:)

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p8scii

Hello!

This is my first game, so I hope you enjoy it.

Paddy Kapow is an interdimensional burgerpatty, that can send an eplosive shockwave outward from its body. It uses this power to avoid getting hit by varies sized scoops of raspberry iscream, while flighing throw space.

I have made a few changes, and added a highscore list, so everyone who plays, can earn bragging rights.

arcade single-player silly

This is my first post,

I am looking to try and develop for Picotron and am curious if it runs using RISC-V instruction sets?

I am looking into if there is a stable FPGA core on any of the relevent FPGA projects which could host Picotron in a stable environment...

Does anyone have information on this topic?

question

While I was playing Void Stranger, the topic of everyone's first Sokoban games came up and I mentioned Kwirk, which I played and loved back when it was new and I was a small child. Little did I know I would dig deep into it and fall in love all over again, leading to my porting it to Picotron, leading to this project, which combines some of my favorite elements of Kwirk and Void Stranger together (and much more).

Plus, it's got character customization, something I've always wanted to do.

This game would not exist without Puzzle Boy and Void Stranger (obv).

The demo can be played here for free, but the full game is available paid on Itch ( https://easypeazygames.itch.io/sokofox ), 40 levels vs the demo's 20. There's also a devlog there talking about some issues that came up and more about the game's status.

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