#picostevemo

[mogwaipoet]

I always appreciated the maps of tiny clockwork worlds you'd find in game magazines

Here's a map of IT 2: They/Them, the game I made for this year's PiCoSteveMo.

f you were one of the players who asked for an in-game map to help you navigate, feel free to print this out and refer to it.

[mogwaipoet]

In case you missed it, in November I made "IT 2: They/Them," a sequel to Stephen King's IT

in which Pennywise is going through a bad breakup and approaches the Losers Club for help retrieving its record collection from its ex, They/Them. It's an open world turn-based puzzle platformer and takes about an hour to finish.

You can play it on itch.io or the Lexaloffle BBS.

[mogwaipoet]

Here's my completed PiCoSteveMo cartridge collection

I sourced every one of these games personally and will not resell them individually. Some of them were in bad physical shape and have replica labels.

[mogwaipoet]

PiCOSteveMo is over!

There were 14 games submitted this year. That's a new record: 14 Pico-8 games loosely inspired by the works of Stephen King.

The PiCoSteveMo showcase happens on Casey's Twitch channel, tonight.

It goes live at 8PM central time. In the meantime you can check out VODs of the 2024 and 2023 showcases and see what the PiCoSteveMo community made in previous years.

You can also just go play the games yourself.

[mogwaipoet]

Here's my new nintendo tape, a sequel to Stephen King's It

Recover Pennywise's record collection in this turn-based puzzle platformer

It 2: They/Them by Twinbeard

Recover Pennywise's record collection in this turn-based platformer

[mogwaipoet]

Less than 24 hours left to submit to PiCoSteveMo 3

If you haven't started on a game yet, I bet you could learn enough Pico-8 to make something in that time.

PiCoSteveMo 3

A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by BaseCase. PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO

[mogwaipoet]

My PiCoSteveMo game is butting up hard against both the token and compressed code limits right now

99.85% and 99.79%, respectively.

I wrote this post about Pico-8 token golfing in the PiCoSteveMo community, with ordinary and sickos-yes-face examples.

[mogwaipoet]

I ran a couple playtests at a local event on Saturday. The most fun result of this was that I needed to implement a fast travel system

In less fun news, I've hit the token limit, so from now on when I talk about token stats, it'll be how many I had to code golf in order to fit new features or fixes.

I've implemented nearly every feature that I had planned, including the ending. I've got a first draft of all the story scenes written. The map is probably half designed, with plenty of room left for the other half.

Sprite/map memory: 71.0% full.

Compressed code size: 96.1% full

Tokens golfed: 480