Space Siblings Mini is my prototype project to experience the pico-8 program. 

The goal of the game is to prevent the alienships getting past you, by shooting them all to their defeat.
If an alien have passed, or if your ship has no more lives left, the game is over.
The game has some progression in different kinds of enemies appearing later on, but it'll turn quickly into an endless mode.

Controls:
Use the arrow Keys to move
Hold Z to switch to a different ship
Press X to use a Bomb (Bombs will also trigger automatically)
Press Enter to pauze the game

A second player can join on keyboard by using ESDF to move, and W to join and change ship.
More players can join by using controllers, and pressing A.

Original game:
The concept of this game is based on my XNA game, Space Siblings, back from 2016. I've enjoyed remastering the game and code in a new enviroment.

Feel free to check that one out too:
https://ppowersteef.itch.io/space-siblings

I hope you'll enjoy my little game!

Updated 2 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Authorppowersteef
GenreShooter
Made withPICO-8
TagsPICO-8, Shoot 'Em Up
Average sessionA few minutes
AccessibilityTextless
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count1 - 4
LinksCommunity

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spacesiblings_windows.zip 988 kB

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This may be a limitation of the engine, but integer overflow is very easy to hit. Also nice game :)

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Thank you! I may look into this and see if I can put a cap on it. I assume this was with 2 players. 

If you happen to have an error message then I like to see it as well.

It was singleplayer, although I don't think that affects the score

Could u please provide a png (pico8) or windows (exe) downloadable link for the game?

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I think I'm not familiar with downloading pico-8 games. I've always assumed these were browser-only, with the exception of the in-development versions.

If I were to make it downloadable, I'll probably prefer making it accessable without external tools (like an emulator). I'll probably have to look up if that's possible.

I've seen so many pico-8 games in itch, that has a windows exe version. So it means that they can ported to windows.

P8 carts are meant to be the development version, and P8 PNG the release format. you can upload the PNG to the lexaloffle BBS to let people play it there, download it to their handhelds or custom consoles, find it with splore and play easily!

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nice :)

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amazing game :D

Thank you!