The theme for Blackthornprod Game Jam #3 was "Less is more", so I challenged myself to make a metroidvania on only one screen, and with a palette of only 4 colors. The result is a this cute little puzzle platformer, where each new powerup recontextualizes the space you are navigating. Then, at the end, you have to put all the powerups back, which is a wholly unique challenge as you have to figure out which order they must be returned in, you can't just do it in reverse order. I had a lot of fun making it, and I hope you enjoy it too!

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
AuthorIsaac Games
GenrePuzzle
Made withPICO-8

Download

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Microvania Download.zip 442 kB

Install instructions

Please download and unzip the folder, then open the html file to play.

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Such a cute little game. Though I don't think I was supposed to use the tractor beam to move me around as much as I did ^_^;

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Nice one! Is this using the standard PICO-8 palette?! Looks so interesting.

Three of the colors are from the alternate palette. I really love the greens in that palette, they have a very nice hue shift across the gradient.

Beat it!

wtf is the dash????

way too powerful for a little blob character, certainly

I beat the final challenge with no problem, I don't think it was supposed to go like that.

It wasn't supposed to be super hard, just make you use a different combination of abilities, and hopefully use the otherwise underused tractor beam a little more fully.

Final challenge 😥

Really fun game!

Thanks!