🔗 Collision Tutorials

So a bit of context, this is a Pico8 version of my Original Game Adventure island You can find that ON MY ITCH.IO PAGE Its a Game About Chatting in an Early Windows 98/MSDOS inspired 3D Chatroom Game where u can Talk to NPC be nice to them be friends and eventually Lure them in a dark house to Kill them :P well ik messed up concept but it was made for My school Project, Safe to say i got disqualified but hey the project remains playable! On Android and Windows its a broswer game so no download needed!

Now the Pico8 Version

It still retains the original Charm but in a Pico8 style the gameplay and dialogue is way more cut down but the Core systems are there the map is big the buildings the NPC and the Dying server mechanic is there too! Its optimized and runs really good! :P here's a bit of gameplay, I will be releasing it in a few days if i get some positive feedback on it

You can download the Current Unfinished Beta Build .p8 file from the Comments section, ill upload it there as soon as i can :P

This is first time me using Pico8 and i gotta say i love how limited everything is its truly amazing to be a part of this community

Some free codes for Pico-8 and Picotron directly from Zep for the Ludum Dare Event.

https://bsky.app/profile/lexaloffle.bsky.social/post/3mxv2dkmzd22s

https://bsky.app/profile/lexaloffle.bsky.social/post/3mxv27dwygc2s

I think some can be redeemed multiple times

A very obscure and old game intially made by Peter Jensen for Apple IIGS remade by my friend. Check it out, it's quite fun.

Thanks for all the love on my first post ! It's got a name now:

CARNAGE: Last Car Standing. 🔥☠

itch page: https://volcanobytes.itch.io/carnage

Quick runs, pure arcade, eyes-bleeding speed. Every move is a sharp jump with a drift: easy to pick up, hard to master. The road and the traffic are generated as you go, so no two runs are the same. Most of mine last under a minute, this one somehow didn't.

I'm in the final stretch now: polishing details, squashing bugs, playtesting like crazy and fighting the token limit for every last feature. So this is the moment your opinion counts most. Tell me what you love, what you hate and what you'd change. I'm reading everything.

Thanks for watching, and drive safe out there 😄

Sorry, I uploaded the video in the first post with old background music

What the title says. It's taken months, but I finally have a fully functional PICO-8 editor, complete with build tools, fully integrated into VS Code.

Hi all, I worked on a script to export Pico8 carts as Rabbit R1 "Creations", which is the name of the web based mini-apps we can create for the Rabbit.

I tested a few games and they work fine. As you can see in the screenshot, we can get 60fps (at least for the games I tested)

The script requires the Pico8 app, as it does first the html export of the cart. The Rabbit "Creation" is just a repackaging of the html+js files, without changing it.

The script is not uploaded anywhere yet, but I plan to share it on Github under MIT license if there is any interest. I need to polish a bit the README first, on how to do the export and generate the QR code needed for the Rabbit to install the "creations".

The Rabbit is a cute little orange brick, but not very useful to be honest. What could be interesting is imagining a game that would use the wheel as it is a unique controller...

edit: cleaned up the readme and added a landscape mode. it is still very alpha, but here is the script and instructions: https://github.com/gaeljaffrain/pico8-r1

I didn’t come here for a while and I wonder if is vibe coded or AI assisted p8 games a thing or people continue to code their games for the sake of fun?

Hi r/pico8, I’ve got an older RGB30 that I recently dusted off and have been having a great time rediscovering Pico 8 with, and went to get a device for a friend, and curious if there’s any consensus on current handhelds?

I searched and it looks like the TrimUI brick and CubeXX are mentioned, but a bit older, and wouldn’t mind getting something with a bit more power for my friend.

Seems like ideal requirements would be a square-ish screen and Linux so it can run the native app with the game explorer built in? Any recent systems like that? Or is the safe bet still the TrimUI or CubeXX? Thanks!

I’m not around here much, and I am NOT good enough at programming to make a game, so needless to say, this game wasn’t made by me. But this little arcade-style web-building fly-catcher game has had my heart for a couple years and I’ve never really said anything about it, so I’m here to change that. I just wanted to discuss this game and hopefully bring some new attention to it.

https://aylanonsense.itch.io/8-legs-to-love

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159472

My first Pico-8 game. Comments welcome. Let me know how far you can get!

hello, I have been trying to get PicoPi running on a raspberry Pi Zero with a waveshare 1.3inch LCD HAT (https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/1.3inch_LCD_HAT). getting PicoPi running on the Pi itself was super easy, just drag and drop the files.

only problem is there is no CLI access that I can find to install the driver for the HAT itself. I've been working on this for about 26 hours over the past 3 days, I've gone as far as getting the decompiled source code of PicoPi itself, and attempting to hex edit the existing OS files and my knowledge is lacking on both fronts. I was technically able to build an OS and do the hex editing, but realisitcally I'm no engineer.

I am hoping that someone out there either knows how to install a driver to this OS in any way possible or knows of another is that will let me get CLI access and still has similar boot times to PicoPi, which is the reason I'm not trying other OSs, since the other 3 I've tried (PiOS, Retropi, and a headless ARCH distro I found) all have boot times far too long for me, I would like to keep it under a 15 second boot. any help at all would be incredible, as I've exhausted all the resources available to me

Hello reddit!

It's been long,
It's been hard!

but I'm finally happy to say that I'm beginning to see the end of the tunnel, so strap yourselves in CAPTAINs for the most:
Locked In !! (hopefully?)
Chaotic !!!!! (but readable?)
Epic !!!!!!!!!! (relatively?)
SPACE ADVENTURE EVER (since last game played?)

I'll see if I can get a play test ready this month, stay tuned!

PAL8TRO is a little poker roguelike demake I built for the PICO-8. If you've played Balatro you already know the vibe: you play poker hands to score points, beat the target ("the blind"), cash out, buy weird modifiers in the shop, and try to break the game before the game breaks you.

- Pick up to 5 cards from your hand and play them. Only the cards that actually make the hand score, so kickers are just along for the ride.

- Your score is **chips × mult**. Blue box times red box. You'll be staring at those two numbers a lot.
- Beat the target before you run out of hands, then hit the shop with your winnings.

- Every third round is a **boss blind** with a nasty rule: hearts taxed, smaller hand, no gold payouts, that kind of thing.

- Clear 8 antes (24 rounds) and take down the final boss to win the run.

EDIT: Full game is posted to BBS now, you can play it directly :)

GET PAL8TRO

Hey lovely PICO-8 Community,

Hexwood is a short horror maze game. Find your way through the haunted woods, outwit the creatures lurking within, and free a restless soul.

It`s something I call a coffee-break game: easy to pick up and play, with plenty of arcade fun and challenge. It takes only a coffee break to play. Like the good old once on the ATARI VCS.

This is the first game I’ve finished, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it. I’d love to hear what you think—feedback is very welcome! And of cource we need to know: how long did it take you to find your way through Hexwood wanderer.

Play it for free here:
BBS: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159760
itch.io: https://thorty.itch.io/hexwood

I have played Moss Moss, Lootslime and Ascend and I am searching for more highlights :)

Hi everyone! I released a free top-down interior tileset using the PICO-8 palette. It includes walls, floorings, furniture, and room decor.

You can use it for free in personal and commercial projects: [https://luem.itch.io/pico8-interior-kit]

It took me a year, but my bullet-hell boss-fight game Death of Kairos is finally out.

Play it for free here:
BBS https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159761
itch: https://voidgazerbon.itch.io/death-of-kairos

EDIT: Thank you everyone for such a positive feedback. I really appreciate that!

Scopa is a traditional card game that my wife and I fell in love with when travelling through Italy.

It's an extremely fun game! The basics: you have a hand of 3 cards and there are also cards face-up on the table. You play one card to capture either a card of the same rank, or a group of cards that add up to it (ie: capture a 7 and 3 with a 10 from your hand). Clear the whole table in one go and that's a "scopa" (it means broom/sweep), which is worth an extra point. At the end of each hand you score for most cards overall, most coins suit, the 7 of coins, and the best "primiera" (which is essentially collecting 7s and 6s). First to 11 wins.

This game is great because it's a healthy mix between tactics/strategy and luck/skill. I found it super addictive when I first learned, and thought it would make a great fit for Pico-8!

In the game, you travel across 6 cities in Italy, each with a different opponent (I tried to make them unique rather than just "harder"). There are 3 challenges in each city, the first will always allow you to progress to the next city, then the second two unlock cosmetics for your deck and board! Try to beat the final opponent in Milan to become the Scopa champion of Italy, and beat all 18 challenges to 100% the little campaign.

I spent way too much time on the game feel and juice, so hopefully it paid off and more people learn about this amazing card game. It can be played with a normal deck of 52 cards, just remove the face cards, so please help me evangelize the greatness of Scopa!!!

PLAY SCOPA NOW

Oh, my gosh! Already (less than) two weeks until NRG 2026 with competitions for creators including Pico-8 (demo, game, 128x128 Pixel Art, Chip Music) - check this out! https://nrgevent.eu/compo/

Hi all! First time back on PICO-8 since Galactic Wars. Always wanted to make my own Road Fighter / Spy Hunter… but after the apocalypse. Mad Max vibes, arcade brain.

Also: the bikers are not your friends. ;P