Hi all, we are excited to share our first full Pico 8 project, called It's Ok To Jump Down. Run and jump your way through randomly generated islands to collect as many coins as possible. Spend your coins at the shop to unlock upgrades and most importantly new biomes to progress further. Finishing the 6th biome earns you a fun reward for your hard work, but don't be afraid to play past this point for a harder challenge.
The game centers around the water-jumping mechanic. Standing under a waterfall fills your water tank(s), which allows you to perform strings of jumps to collect hard to reach coins. You can also refill mid-air.
We really hope you enjoy!
Your game is beautiful, congratulations, you managed to use the limitations of Pico 8 well
Thank you! Much of this code comes from a demo we built way back in 2018, well before we understood the token limitations of Pico 8. Probably could have rewritten it from scratch but.. oh well :)
This is a really lovely cart beautifully presented. It's an interesting game concept, and although I found it difficult to get into at first, once I started focusing on avoiding the enemies and keeping my water levels up, it became easier to work my way around the screen collecting the valuable coins and going for perfects.
I do find it quite difficult, and that the biomes increase in difficulty quite rapidly. I wonder whether I should be coin farming in the early stages to get my health up, but I can see myself playing this cart for quite a while!
Thanks! Yes the difficulty scaling was hard to balance. From testing some players were able to breeze through to the first loop, others had a lot of trouble. We are considering adding a difficulty option on the first screen to basically skip the first loop for a harder challenge, but that's tough as we also like how the first loop doesn't mix the enemies and might flow better from an atmospheric perspective (and also because I goofed the token limit a little).
At the very least we could publish a version of the cart that skips one or two loops. "Its OK to Jump Down HARD EXTREME DX".
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