PICO-BALL

A PICO-8 sports game starring Jelpi!

Play solo or together in a mashup of tennis, volleyball, squash, and wallball where the only rule is: two bounces on one side is a point for the other.

Controls:

They should all be in the game, but for those who aren't familiar wi PICO-8: ESDF is used for player 2 instead of WASD so it works on many international keyboard as well as QWERTY. (And the game does work with controllers!)

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Gamemodes 🎮

--Solo

    -Campaign🏆Help Jelpi ascend the ranks and meet an old comrade...

    -Wall🧱Play a solo match against the wall (The Unbeatable Opponent) to see how long you last (powerups come in handy here)

    -Spectate👁️Watch opponents previously defeated in campaign play against each other (could be together...)

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--Together

    -Versus👊💥Face each other in a PICO-BALL match, powerups add a lot of depth, craziness and sillyness

    -Co-op🤝💖 Work together to keep the ball(s) in the air (the powerups both aid and hinder your juggling ability)

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Campaign Opponents 💥🏆

    -Strider🚶‍➡️Newcomer to the game, has a hard time getting shots that go way over their head

    -Heli🚁There isn't a rule against flying, but luckily this helicoper-creature isn't too good at catching up to a quick-moving ball

    -Frog🎩🐸A dapper frog that uses his tongue for some crazy trick shots (which work about half of the time)

    -Bird🐦This opponent is actually good at flying and is not afraid to come over to your side, so well-placed aggressive shots are the way to go here

    -Mimo🐰Jelpi's old friend and comrade with the same moves, gets more aggressive as the game goes on, which can be taken advantage of...

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Wear hats that you've unlocked by defeating opponents!

 

Well,  Have fun!

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Credits

Game (Code/Music/Sound/Story/Art) by PlayerTheMaker (itch.io), a.k.a. @Munchkin (Lexaloffle BBS)

Original Jelpi characters/themes/sound-effects/art and PICO-8 itself, @zep/Lexaloffle
  

  

version history

By the way, the current version is visible in the in-game credits, it's currently 1.0.0.

The numbers go, gameNumber.featureUpdate.patchNumber.

It's quite likely that I'll have to fix a bug, and I might add some extra hats in the future (I didn't have time to rework the code to allow extra hats from co-op and wall high scores if I wanted to get the game out in July) so the latter two numbers may change, but I don't plan to make a sequel, so the first one probably never will!

• 1.0.0: original release, 7/29/2025

    

Dev notes can be found on this games Lexaloffle page (this version also works better on mobile for some):  https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=171244#p