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Life Vac by Claus is a short puzzle simulation game made for PICO-8.

You are an amoral scientist who found the secret to create life. You are going to use this secret to get rich. Create life and raise life in your petri dish. Sell it when it is grown and active for maximum rewards. Follow these rules for a smooth experience:

• The simulation follows the rules of ‘Conway’s Game of Life’.
• The value of each cell is proportional to how much the cell has been updated recently.
• Chaotic patterns are worth more than static patterns.
• The patterns sold in the middle menu include chaotic patterns, but also static patterns. Your goal is to find and make a pattern that maximizes activity.

Use the ‘arrow’ keys and ‘z’, ‘x’ buttons to navigate and activate the menus. The left menu (Run) runs a simulation. The middle menu has three stamps that you can place on the petri dish. The right menu (Suck) will collect the cells currently in the petri dish and give you money for them.

Shy Gladiator by Claus is a short boss battle action game made for PICO-8.

In this game you have to defeat three mythical creatures, but your character is too embarrassed to attack, so instead he must dodge their attacks until the monsters lose all their powers. You can follow these rules:

• To defeat each creature, you need to dodge their attacks until they run out of energy.
• You can use the columns for cover, but attacks will eventually break them.
• In a pinch, you can do a dodge roll to become invincible for a second. But it costs you some energy.
• Learn the enemy’s movements. Maybe you can bait them into attacking in a predictable way
• There are three creatures for you to defeat.

Use ‘arrow’ keys to move the gladiator left and right and press ‘z’ to do a dodge roll, you will be invincible for a time, but lose some energy.

Bustin’ by Culprit is a short arcade game made with PICO-8.

Your goal is to change the ball’s angle by hitting it with your paddle in motion. Press ‘x’ to serve the ball and ‘arrows’ to move your paddle. Be a pro and beat all the 20 levels.

The following are the powerups:

• Red : 1 UP
• Green : Sticky paddle
• Blue : Growing paddle
• Black : Shrinking paddle
• Pink : Mega ball
• Yellow : Multi ball
• Rainbow : Fabulous

480 Shapes of Grey by Busysoft is a oldskool 256b Intro released at ‘Lovebyte 2023’ for Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.

Summer Night Storm by Kpacku is a 256b Intro released at ‘Lovebyte 2023’ for Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.

I Love The Dots by Samar Productions is a 256b Intro for Commodore 64 released at ‘Lovebyte 2023’.

Falling Coffee by nozywolf is a game made with PICO-8.

The idea of this game is of ​​an office worker having to grab the cups of coffee from his superiors from above. You will press ‘x’ button on the coffee machine and the coffee mugs will appear one by one on the screen, first slow then fast.

Flappy Spaceship by alexx_terrieur is a simple “flappy bird” style game, just in space. Made with PICO-8.

You are a spaceship and must avoid planets and asteroids. Press ‘arrow up’ to jump.

Pico-Factory by Claus Aranha is a game made with PICO-8.

In this game you need to create a small factory on one screen that produces breakfast for money. Follow these rules for a better play:

• The game ends after 4:00 minutes. You must get as much money as possible.
• Everything that arrives at the “$$” square is transformed into money.
• You want to earn enough money to move to the next tier of buildings quickly.
• Building tier: Tree, Bread, Juicer, Breakfast Machine, Eggs, Sandwich Machine.
• If an item goes into a machine that does not accept it, it is destroyed.
• To replace a building with something else, use (Z) or button (1) twice.

Candy Quest by MaxBeforeTheOne is a halloween themed platformer for Nintendo’s Game Boy.

In this game, follow the four Pumpkids, PPK, GPK, YPK, and RPK, along their quest to collect the candy for a powerful magical potion which bestow great powers to whoever drinks it. In order to do that, you will help the four pumpkids to light the four Candles of Sucrosia that are scattered across the land, and gather as much special candy as they can in order to make the potion as powerful as possible. However, they only have until the end of Halloween night before their chance to create the Potion of Sugarious slips away. Put your platforming skills to the test and find out in Candy Quest!