holoduck by zep [Click to Play] A 48h puzzle game for Ludum Dare #59 // compo page Controls: cursors to move / x to restart You must maintain contact with at least one relay, otherwise holoduck will fade out Press Enter to open the pause menu (restart room / restart game) Good luck holoduck!
Elf Cannon by zep [Click to Play] Merry Christmas and Happy Decemberween everyone! Here's my cartridge for this year's Advent Calendar , a collection of 31 holiday themed games packaged in an adorable menu cartridge. For the full experience, you can open each advent box here , or load #advent2025 from inside PICO-8. Thanks to @kevinthompson and @bikibird for organising the jam and wrangling so…
Blue and Lefty (PICO-1k jam) by zep [Click to Play] Help Lefty munch all of the tomatoes, but don't get squashed! Z or C to jump. It is easy to get stuck ~ press ENTER to retry a room via the pause menu. Push items around by walking into them or by jumping on them from a decent height. Made for #pico1k 2025 in 1024 bytes (thanks Liquidream & Shrinko-8!) All PICO-1k entries at itch:…
Hey All, PICO-8 0.2.7 is now up on lexaloffle , Humble and itch.io . No CHIP/PocketCHIP build yet, sorry! (my last PocketCHIP died -- I'll come back to that later) This update introduces some late additions to the API before freezing at 0.3, and improvements aimed at handheld devices. 0.2.7 also includes an important security patch for a vulnerability affecting untrusted carts running locally (see…
Midnight Blue by zep [Click to Play] Merry Christmas everyone! This winter, don't forget to spend quality time with your snowman friend . You can collect stars too if you like, but the real treasure is memories of whooshing through the snowy landscape together. Use DPAD/cursors to fly around, and fly downwards for extra speed. After unlocking star mode, tab (or the pause menu) can be used to…
// by @kittenm4ster and @Minion The GIF Gallery is a new corner of the BBS where GIFs & postcarts can be shared as separate items and live forever¹ in their uncompressed glory. Each profile page has its own GIF section, and there is a separate gallery for just the postcart GIFs: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/superblog.php?mode=gifs&postcarts=1 GIF posts don't show up in thread activity…
Jar Life by zep [Click to Play] Controls Z/C to jump X to bunch up / hoist / throw Save 4 creatures in each room to progress to the next level (not everyone needs to make it out alive!). Grab a key to open the door, but the player can not enter until 4 creatures have passed through. To restart at any time, press ENTER and choose "restart level". Made for Ludum Dare 56. You can find the jam page…
BLORB (pico-1k) by zep [Click to Play] BLORB LIKES CANS. GET CANS! DPAD / Cursors to Move Hold X to Grab / Retract Retract all the way back to the portal to collect a can. You only get 1 life ~ CTRL-R to restart if you crash (or open the menu with ENTER). There is no sound in space (I mean .. there is no space for sound) Good luck! This is a game made in 1024 bytes for PICO-1k Jam 2024 ,…
Hey All! PICO-8 0.2.6b is up now up on lexaloffle , Humble , itch.io , and for PocketCHIP and web ( Education Edition ). Note: you'll need to update to 0.2.6b to play new carts and SFX snippets created in 0.2.6! Inverted Draw Operations Thanks to @p01 for nudging me about this one! Filled draw operations (circfill, ovalfill, rectfill) can now be drawn inside-out: every pixel outside the area is…
Elf Curling by zep [Click to Play] A wee game for the the 2023 Holiday Bundle: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=55407 It is 2 player, but if you'd like to play around with both teams, you can enable 'hotseat' mode in the pause menu which allows using the same controls for both teams. The goal is to get as many curling stones inside or even barely touching the red (5 points) and blue (2 points)…
loom valley by zep [Click to Play] X to accelerate -- try to stay on the ground to maintain speed! This is a 1022 byte cartridge made for the pico-1k jam , but while I was commenting it I found a bunch of unused junk, so now it is 999 bytes compressed :) (see the code in tab 1, minified by @thisismypassword 's excellent Shrinko8 ) pico1k entry page: https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2023/rate/2289420
fill pattern catalogue by zep [Click to Play] This is a little tool for viewing all possible 4x4 fill patterns, after removing duplicates which are the same pattern inverted, translated, rotated, or flipped in x/y/diagonally. There are 65536 possible raw fill patterns (1 << 16), but only 433 unique patterns once "equivalent" ones have been discarded. To use a fill pattern that you like, prefix it…
Hey All! I've been trucking on some Picotron stuff a bit lately, and I've added a lot of it to the current build of Picotron Playground which you can play around with in your browser here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=playground A quick recap for some context: Picotron is a fantasy workstation that aims to be extremely hackable and flexible . It is not quite in production yet, but…
Time For Lunch by zep [Click to Play] Here's an orange and some sandwiches for The Wizard. Use the dpad (or cursors) to control the owl, and watch out for castle creatures. Also, take care of the basket ~~ if it hits a wall too hard, it might smash. Good luck! This is a short game made for Ludum Dare vol.53 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/$366108
It's Lovebyte this weekend, and I made a couple of size-coded intros for it. First up is an invite to another demoscene party: SESSIONS in C4 LAN 2023 SPRING , taking place in Shizuoka / Japan end of April. This one is 512 bytes, around 100 of which are for the music (don't wait for the drop!): sessions 2023 invitro by zep [Click to Play] I also tried a bunch of 64 byte intros based on poking…
More bugfixin' PICO-8 0.2.5f 0.2.5g is up now up on lexaloffle , Humble , itch.io , and for PocketCHIP and web ( Education Edition ). v0.2.5g Changelog: Fixed: tonum("123abc") returns 123 (should return nothing) // also breaks split(). regression in 0.2.5f Fixed: draw_tabs not listed by CONFIG command v0.2.5f Changelog: Added: CONFIG DRAW_TABS 1 to show tab characters in code editor (previously…
UPDATE: Part II Thread https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=52692 A new year, a new fantasy machine! Picotron Playground is an experimental web version of Picotron 's WIP runtime and API, bundled with a terminal and code editor in order to make some toy programs. You can read more about the goals of Picotron and its specifications in the FAQ: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=faq…
Wooden Toy Joinery by zep [Click to Play] Use the dpad to move head pieces around, join them to tiles (only some tiles join, and only on certain sides), and move your creation to the target area to complete each puzzle. A wee game for Twelve Days of PICO-8 Christmas 2022 . To get the full experience, play it from @TheTomster 's menu cart ! Some scenes from other games in the collection: Wooden Toy…
Hey all! Time for some more bugfixes and esoteric features / QOL improvements to finish off 0.2.5*. And thanks to some snippets from @samhocevar 's excellent z8lua , some cleaner code parsing. PICO-8 0.2.5d is now up on lexaloffle , Humble , itch.io , and for PocketCHIP and web ( Education Edition ). 0.2.5e 0.2.5e fixes a bug in the loader that causes uppercase characters to not be loaded as…
aajibi (512b intro) by zep [Click to Play] Turn on your subwoofer! This is a 512 byte intro I made for inercia 2022 , a demoparty that took place in Lisbon over the weekend. It's the first time that I put the no longer secret 0x808 audio channel to use, with around 200 bytes of the (compressed) code spent on generating the music. I was pleased to find that techniques used for golfing down visual…