Downclimber

Summary

Game made with pico 8, delve into the depths of a mountain

A simple but punishing down going platformer.

Controls: arrows and z.

Follow the guides for mechanics. And yes it ends when you think it does.

Unfortunately i didn’t have time to get my parallel world mess thing working so its kinda short (could have been 3x longer)

Thoughts

This was my first real touch to pico 8, which is a fun fantasy console. I simulated doing a “offline jam” so i didn’t search for any solutions during the jam from the internet and only relied on the pico-8 manual and this nice cheat sheet Trying to get max level depth of the supported space lead to a creative solution and bad solution. Trying to create a custom physics engine from scratch without any support is fun but taxing.

Still, I am pretty impressed on how well i got the things working. I would recommend anybody who is into game engines to try-out developing in with some-kind of old school emulator or fantasy console.

Source files

Available at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/down-climber-pico-8/