Away From This World

by stadam

Cart #aftwstadam-0 | 2024-10-28 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Bunker Down

My first lengthy text-based adventure. Made for the 100th Untitled Game Jam, where the theme was 'The End'.

With the Jam's time-frame being just over a week, I'm relatively happy with how much I got done. It was a slog at times but, as always, it's a great feeling to get something finished.

I hope you enjoy playing! How many days can you survive a rogue Earth scenario?

Game Jam entry -> https://itch.io/jam/untitled-game-jam-100/rate/3062084
Itch.io page -> https://stadam.itch.io/away-from-this-world

Latest updates

• Fix portals
• More stats for infinite mode

Square Wars

by horneds

Cart #horneds_sw-32 | 2024-11-21 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Hello PICO community!

I recently met Pico8 and was fascinated by it. At first, I just played games, but then YouTube suggested a video on how to program for this console...

So, I’d like to introduce my first game for Pico8 (and my first game ever). It’s a simple puzzle like "Flood It," but with more advanced mechanics.

Your goal in the game to grab more field than others. There is a bunch of missions available and practice mode (you have to unlock it).

Game has a minimal retro style.

I’d love to hear your feedback and advice. The game is still in development, and I hope to add more features (maybe even skills?).

Happy playing!

Features

• Campaign with 21 missions
• Special powers (unlockable)
• Different arenas (unlockable)
• Practice mode (unlockable)
• Infinitive mode (unlockable)
• Up to 4 players in skirmish mode
• Top scores (per mission, per arena, per run, etc)

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Hello! I wanted to post my little ball game that I have been making to play around with the engine for a while.

Arrow keys to move, X gives the ball an explosive boost if you hold a direction!

There is no goal so far, but you can destroy some crates if you want. CTRL-R to reboot if you run out of crates to smash. The fire can break the crates on their own if you aren't fast enough. I will hopefully use the fire in a productive way in a later version.

crateballd1

by SHK

Cart #crateballd1-0 | 2024-10-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Hi, I try to make a one-button game and thought I could extend it to four players , maybe even using one controller (but yes two players on the direction pad might not work).

On a keyboard 4 players could use the keys from both players, even esdf, for movement. Btnp() returns an integer that represents the pressed button/keys. e.g. 512 for player2,-> (right).

The players use the x ("x" and o ("c") buttons and on keybord q,w. I could use btnp(4,0), btnp(5,0) and btnp(4,1),btnp(5,1) but it would use 4 "if-statements" instead of one and I want to use the keyboard and variable keysetting.

I would like to have something like this:

playerbtn		= {32,16,4096,8192}
player[i]		= {btnpressed = playerbtn[i])

for i=1,game.playernumber do
if btnp() == player[i].btnpressed then
some code
end
end

instead of four times this:

if btnp(5,0) then
if player[1].movment < 8 then

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first

by Choochoocrew

Cart #zakuwikeju-3 | 2024-10-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Controls: up up, down down, left left, right right, x inventory, o turn off footsteps.

sibyl

by tarotferret

Cart #ketgnzu-0 | 2024-10-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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SIBYL

-a mini horror game-

SUPER SPECIAL THANKS TO MBoffin (Dylan Bennett) for map collision stuff.

WARNING

This game has some scary images and pixelated blood and gore, viewer digression is advised.

This game also has flashing images, which can bother those who have sensitivity to such things.

CONTROLS

ARROW KEYS - move character
[X] (keyboard X) - accept/close menu
[O] (keyboard Z) - pull up menu/statistics - this also pauses the game

PREMISE

This game is a tiny little survival horror game made with PICO-8. The goal was to see if I could make something creepy in such a restrictive environment.

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interpretation_4_33

by Bazooka

Cart #interpretation_4_33-0 | 2024-10-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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my interpretation of John Cage's 4:33

for Künstlerisches Gestalten mit Klang @IAEM, Graz

Interpreted by Luca Candussi (1313390) - Graz 2024

made external editor feel more like pico...does anyone else do this too?

mowuhefagi

by erikharrison

Cart #mowuhefagi-0 | 2024-10-26 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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This cart shows what I think is a bug with the garbage collector interacting with weakrefs. Nothing should be drawn, yet sprite zero is shown. I'm not entirely sure how to show code here? I'm new!

Here are the steps:

Create a table with weakref values.
Add a value to that table.
Pass that table to a function.
The function uses a LOCAL variable to iterate over ALL() values of the table.
Return

The LOCAL variable holds a reference to the last member of the table. The LOCAL variable doesn't appear to get correctly garbage collected, and so neither does the last table member.

Weirdly, if I run stat(0) inside the function with the iterator, all is well. If I run it outside the function, nothing works.

Shipnickers 1.3

by ironchestgames

Cart #shipnickers-7 | 2024-12-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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You are a ship collector with questionable methods of obtainment.

Collect the 100 unique ships! Embarrass the police when they try to catch you!

🅾️
Primary weapon (hold to shoot and charge Secondary)
Secondary weapon (release and press)
Repair (mash!)

❎
Tertiary weapon

Press ❎ in hangar to see upcoming enemies.

Features:

• 2 player co-op!
• 100 unique ships!
• 10 different weapon systems!
• Progressive difficulty!
• Particle effects!
• Embarrass the police without real world implications!

Change log:

Blind

by JMPotionwiz

Cart #jmp_blind-0 | 2024-10-03 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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You are trapped alone in a forest, and must find a source of warmth...
Oh, and you're also blind.

Directions

- So... what do I do again?
Use the arrow keys to move. Please avoid running into walls.

- Wait! But I can't see the walls!
Use X + an arrow key to check in a particular direction for walls.

- Okay, but where am I going?
Press Z to check the temperature.

• "Warmer" means you're getting closer.
• "Colder" means you're getting further.
• "..." means that it's the same distance away as the last time you checked, or that you haven't moved since last checking.

- Closer to what?
The exit, which will allow you to select a power-up, then take you to the next level.

- Pfft, this is going to be easy.
Keep an eye on the meter towards the bottom. When it runs out, you freeze to death.

- oh. . .

Tips

Tiles are "remembered" (become visible) as you traverse the level (or check things or run into stuff). However, they also fade from memory over time.

As you get closer to the exit, "embers" will become visible to help guide you.

Remember to eat some stew between levels, whenever possible. You might not last too long if you don't...

And finally

I had this weird idea in my head for a while, of some sort of dungeon crawler where the player would only be able to see tiles that they had visited recently. So I decided to create it. It took me a little under a week to finish this, though it isn't really a dungeon crawler anymore.

This is my first complete PICO-8 game. Hopefully it's fun. Enjoy!
--J. M. Potionwiz

Yeah... I probably should have put this in it's own post.
Anyways here ya go!;

Thank you for this list!
Also, above is a Image of a horror game Idea i have. Do you wanna see this in a game? (Summary in top right)

Hi everyone!
Sorry I haven't posted(On the topic of mirror) in a while.

Anyways heres LV3:
As Usual lemme know if it's impossible.

Mirror L3

by Proatwork456

Cart #tizofuwawi-0 | 2024-10-24 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

I have also added Debug exits to Lvl 1 and 2 for ur convenience.
Oh, Btw All other updates will be posted here from now on.

Once Upon a late night dreary, I logged in weak and weary, Over many a quaint of forgotten Splore...
I searched up "Horror" and it said "Nevermore"

Old poetry aside, Anyone know any Pico-8 horror games? Seeing as it's Halloween and I've come up short, and HALLOWEEN of all times. If any have good releases, please post them here for the next thrill seeker like me.

I'll start:

https://arkicade.itch.io/cheshire-in-a-chatroom

Noid's Text Engine

by noiD_on_scratch

Cart #zanisohru-2 | 2024-11-04 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Here is a Text system that I've been working on! Any type of feedback or criticism is welcome!

~~ PROS ~~

• Dynamic Name Tab
• Simply Formatted
• Light Weight

~~ CONS ~~

• Manually add a new line using '\n'

~~ UPDATE CHANGELOG ~~
1.1 - Dynamic name now works with special icons (Thanks @RealShadowCaster)
1.0 - Initial release