Tummy!

My first original PICO-8 game!

Press ↑ to eat snacks as they pass through the target.

Hello there! This week i managed to finish my first pico-8 game, I've been chipping away at it slowly since January, fitting it in around my day-job and looking after my now 7 month old baby. Just taking what i learned from the Game Development with Pico-8 zine by Dylan Bennett, and keeping the Nerdy Teachers reference guides on hand. Plus a lot of googling, searching and asking the community when I was truly stuck.

My background is in art and graphic design, so not much experience in the way of coding, but I've absolutely fallen in love with the problem solving element of it. I've got some ideas for what I want to take on next but as a first project, limiting myself to just one button and one action really helped to scope a project that was achievable, and still allowed room for adding extras and just generally getting used to all the different aspects of game development that Pico-8 enables you to do.

The idea for Tummy! came to me in the middle of night while i was bouncing my son back to sleep, I've oddly found that a great time to think about the problems I've been encountering with development and try and come up with solutions before trying them out the next day. More often than not it didn't work, but it would start me down the path of problem-solving.

Hope you all like it! Good luck with your scores!