Cleaning up the road

A simple, kid-friendly 2-player PICO-8 game.

Inspired by other PICO-8 games made by parents with their children, I asked my young daughter if she wanted to make a game with me. "Yes!"
"What should it be about?" "We would be cleaning garbage off the road."
"And what should we call it?" "Cleaning up the road!"

This game is the eventual result after trying a bunch of ideas, testing, and tweaking. It is not a hard game, appropriate for young kids to learn how controllers work. With so many games being too difficult for preschool age, I erred on the side of simpler and easier.

This is my first PICO-8 project and my first released video game. Enjoy!

Make sure your kids understand the dangers of roads.

Ways to play:

Load into PICO-8 (or find it on splore)

Web versions:

Cleaning up the Road on PICO-8 BBS.

Cleaning up the Road on Github pages.

Controls:

PICO-8 controller:

D-pad to move

X to pick up

O to throw

Start for menu

Keyboard

Player 1: Arrow keys = D-pad, X = Pickup/drop, Z = throw

Player 2: ESDF = D-pad, Q = Pickup/drop, W = throw

P/Enter key - console menu

Menu options

Music can be toggled on/off. Controls can be swapped for player 1 and 2.

Code

Code is best views in the PICO-8 environment itself, but you can view the code in the cleaninguptheroad.p8 file in this repository as plaintext.