Pico Driller
Welcome to Picotown, a city like any other until big blocks started to pop out of the earth right into the middle of the city! The picopeople need you: Pico Driller!
Falling blocks that could squish you anytime? Small capsules of air underground? Ever-present danger? Prepare to drill your way and save the day!
CONTROLS
- Arrow keys to move and navigate menus.
- X/Z to drill in current direction.
HOW TO PLAY
- Drill as deep as you can, but don't get crushed!
- Air consumption increases the deeper you go, make sure to refill in time!
- X-blocks take 5 drills to destroy AND 20% of your air. Beware!
CREDITS
A PICO-8 demake of the NAMCO classic!
Art+Audio: Johan Vinet ( @johanvinet)
Code: Johan Peitz (@johanpeitz)
Also playable on itch.io: https://canarigames.itch.io/picodriller
Hey all, super happy that this is so well received! Johan and I had such a blast making it and nothing is better than other people enjoying it too. Thanks for letting us know!
What does "FUTURE VERSION: 239" mean? It's stopping it working.
This is such a lovely production. A+ am drilling a bit every day.
Bug report: after 18 minutes (32767/(30*60)), tick overflows to -0x8000, and the game starts running slow because of
local steps=max(0,15-flr(tick/1.5)) pal_shift(steps, dark_pal) |
Possible fix: resetting ticks each game.
I guess there might be a bunch of carts now that do something funky after 18 (or 9) minutes!
@BlinkyMcGoo it means the cart was made in a newer version of PICO-8 that is incompatible with the version you have. You can fix it by updating.
Great game here, really close to the original. I love the cute graphics and the music. I've made a video review to show my appreciation:
Hey @extar,
thanks for the video, nice play throughs! Afaik no one made it to 5000 yet. :o
Cheers.
Johan
Ah that explains why the game becomes slow!
BTW I have now played the GBC version (cleared 500m after a week thanks to training in the pico8 version!) and I am impressed by the fidelity of your game. One exception is that your music is better!
Great game! One problem that I found is when you go down too fast and too many blocks start to fall off screen the game lags and all UI disappears. I was playing arcade on intermediate at around 200-300 M when this happened
This is an excellent, excellent game! I like it so much, I had to make a video about it. :)
Just how deep is this cake anyways ? :)
Nice drilling game, lovely animation and graphics. Polished presentation. Definitely gold star work, @johanp.
Wonderful Game!! Love the mechanics and the graphics are amazing! There is a real state of flow in marathon mode when you speed run it and the speed saves you from the falling blocks. Zen mode. I love it.
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