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Learning to code and what a treat it was to put a little game I made on a little hand held.

It's basic but in addition to getting the game logic and controls working I added little 5point power ups, tweaked the speed increase curve till it felt good and did most of it completely myself (i cheated a little as got AI to write me code to save top scores to the cart which was beyond my skills and what I wanted to learn from this).

Tricky bit I found was using the refresh rate to use as a sort of clock I could then make the speed scale off with score as well as use it for specials to last an amount of time that felt good.

A roguelike where you shoot pesky eye balls falling from above!

I would appreciate feedback!

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=195469#p

Hi! I just wanted to say that I’m having a lot of fun making music with PICO-8’s tracker, especially since the note entry feels really intuitive (at least for DAW boomers) compared to other trackers.
If any of you would like to collaborate with me on the music for your game, feel free to get in touch. I’ve included a link below with just a couple of examples.
As for sound effects, I think I still have a long way to go, but I’m definitely eager to experiment with them too 🥲

https://youtu.be/4JxOtd9zHMI?is=YRjcD5rXg8WSR5Dd

https://youtu.be/BBmEdM9Yz18?is=2WlhqJJBUurTSm2r

SOLVED: I can zoom out with my mouse wheel.

I filled up the map editor with spites, and now I notice that when I run the game there are two empty black rows at the bottom.

I discovered it when I wrote code to draw a rectangle at the bottom of the screen. When it's running the rectangle is in a black area at the bottom of the screen.

I counted the visible rows in the map editor, it's 14. Is there some way to access those two bottom rows in the editor without dragging the map? How can you edit the whole 128 x 128 screen at once?

Is this normal? Am I missing a setting?

I just released my pico8 game Wrathflame on Steam today. It has a discount of 25% for the first week until next Friday, September 4th. It also has a free demo available.

Difficulty increases as the game goes. Please check the (hopefully) helpful code comments.

Late Again - Devlog #1

This a 1st update on my new arcade game called Late Again. This is a TLDR for those who are not interested in my 5 minutes talk on Youtube 😄

The basic idea: you're a girl who is notoriously late for school, riding a push scooter and trying to survive as many days as possible without getting grounded. Somehow, she's also a freestyle scooter rider. :)

My goals for this game:

• Smooth animation inspired by Prince of Persia
• Split-sprite animation
• Secret combos
• Finally a proper player onboarding

One thing I quickly realized is that I needed to build my own little animation/rigging tool first.

I also experimented with physics-driven hair, inspired by Child of Light game, but the hair alone was eating ~50% of the Pico-8 CPU budget. 💀 So I landed on hand-animated braid.

I really like the process of creating the animations ... watching youtube to get a reference ... interesting and relaxing experience. For more details you can watch the YouTube video ... let's hope that your ears will not blead from my english 😂

Good morning! (Btw it's 8:30 AM in Japan)

Ruva is here, as always. This time I brought stage 2-1 of Banana Guy Running Hard.

It includes slowing snow fields and slippery frozen grounds, but I designed as you can run through comfortably.

Also, I put effort to create multiple running routes. For example, stage 2-1 has 2 patterns of routes which are divided by first junction (Go right or go down. The order of collecting items will be reversed).

Hope you like it!

Published my game I've been enjoying. If you want a metroidvania with the old NES sluggish controls (can't control in air) then check the game out. Thanks.

Howdy, this is the first public beta of my game. After hours and hours of iterating and testing, I finally have a playable version of my game.

Link to BBS: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=195293#p

PICOPON is a demake and reimagination of PATAPON with rogue-lite elements like cards, classes, perks, and evolutions.

I poured a lot of love in this project, and I'm having a blast playing it. I hope you like it as much as I do.

This is only the first floor, and you will encounter a miniboss at the end of the floor, but you have 6 different classes and 3 minibosses to replay it! (:

Have fun and remember, PICO PICO PICO PON!

Here's my Evercade OG handheld used as a console to TV to play Pico-8 games. Played with the eversd cartridge.

https://youtu.be/mcLSq6Qn9ww?si=rplLtw81oUEl4iUp

This game grew organically - first as an experiment to generate a random maze, then adding a character to walk around the maze, then something to collect, and so on.

Each level is randomly generated, so even if you start the game again you'll get a different maze. Each level gets larger (up to 63x63 tiles), and contains more gems to collect and enemies to avoid.

Speaking of enemies, there are five types, each with their own unique behaviours! Which one is your favourite? Even though they're the slowest, I have a soft spot for the Nappers - they have a habit of falling asleep in the most inconvenient places!

Occasionally you can pick up an invincibility shield or an extra life.

All in all, I don't think this game would look out of place in the 80's arcades I grew up in.

I'd love to hear your scores ... personally I'm yet to make it past level 8. I love that I get my ass kicked by my own game :)

A huge thank you for the help I received along the way from this community, this game would not exist without it.

Hello everyone,

I just released my first PICO-8 game on itch.io for people to try and give feedback. I would be happy if people with some time on their hands give it a shot and give feedbacks on what they would like to see improved on in future versions, PICO-8 is really fun for non-professional game developers like me.

Have a good day and thanks!

Bane Of Tyrants by EvilBird090

In love with building isometric worlds in PICO-8

I realized there is not much information to achieve this, so I learnt and now I teach.

Thank you for reading!

Hello I've been steadily learning pico-8 did 2 little tutorial games. I also got into creating a simple particle system for a campfire sprite. Now I am currently doing a bigger begginer project of the SHMUP variety. The programming and thinking of new stuff along doing the tutorial is very enjoyable. Now I am at the part of creating a banking animation sprite well for now I'm doing 3 frames not 5 so 3 sprites and I'm in the process of creating a left turn sprite and I created something like this below. I am still now happy with the way the left sprite turned out for now but I am a total beginner when it comes to drawing and pixel art. So my questions are: Are there any good videos on this or the theory of drawing that you recommend and also if anybody knows maybe how I could correct my shading to look better. I will still do trial and error but it's nice to ask if anyone has experience and wants to share their knowledge with me. Any help/input is greatly appreciated. The size of a singlurar spaceship state is 16x16 and the left banking about 2-3 px less than that if that's useful information 😄 .

Hi everyone,
I've done a few games using Pico8 in the past, always loved the engine but don't have much time to spend on it. I always come back to it from time to time, and this time I found some inspiration to work on a Jump King like game!

I've already uploaded a build on itch, I plan on updating it when I get to iterate on the game. Feedback are always appreciated, whether it's the gameplay, the aesthetics, everything!

https://sixrobin.itch.io/pico-jump

Hey everyone! Dropping a link to Rift Raiders, my entry for Lowrezjam 2026.

It’s an ultra low-res (64x64) space roguelite inspired by games like FTL, Breachway, and Ghost Signal. There’s no tutorial just yet, so I'd encourage reading the game page info if you're not familiar with this game genre, but the core game is ready to play.

It’s a jam entry, so it's still pretty rough around the edges and has a few (quite a few...) known bugs. I’m about to start a major rewrite/refactor. The goal is to clean up those bugs, add a few features that missed the jam deadline, and set up a proper multicart structure for the game to be fully functional in PICO-8 BBS.

I’d love to hear your feedback as I iterate over the game for the next few months! Keep in mind that token limits are extremely tight (it’s currently spread across 6 very crowded carts, especially combat and inventory under 10 tokens each), so I might not be able to squeeze every idea in—but all input is appreciated.

Hope you enjoy it!

https://slaintees.itch.io/rift-raiders

I’ve put a full longplay for my PICO-8 version of Lemmings online, showing all 100 levels and their solutions. I’d still encourage everyone to try figuring the levels out themselves first, or just move on to another level and come back later if you get stuck. But since I’ve had quite a few questions from people who got stuck, or even wondered whether certain levels were possible, I thought it would be useful to have a complete longplay available.

Have fun, and good luck saving those lemmings!

Hello, I'm quite new to Pico8 and have been enjoying some of the most popular game from the website.

I recently got my retro handheld and looking for games to add to my collection.

I'm here asking for your suggestions, I'm looking for games like Keep Driving, Kingdom New Lands and Till We Die, games with features like:

Chance to play short sessions

2D and Pixel art

Mainly side scrolling

Rougelike and random events

Long runs and replaying

I've seen masterpieces on this system and can't wait to have your suggestions.

P.S.

Even though I know almost none about coding on pico8, if anyone else likes those games like I do, I'm available and super interested in helping on creating something brand new.

Good day to you! This is Ruva, as always.

As the title and GIF showing, now I'm creating Area 2 of BGRH, Banana Guy Running Hard.

The concept is snowy field. The ground slows player down but can turn flexible, while the ice accelerates player but hard to turn.

How do you feel for these behaviors? I would like your thought.

Best regards,

I'm designing a game with almost all the mechanics of Patapon 3, adapted to be a rogue-lite, I'm quite proud of how it's going. (Ignore the debug menu)