Neat! Beautiful landscapes.

you're a pico-8 master, this cart is perfect in every way

This is an incredible pico-8 game. The art style and tone of the game feels super warm to play, and the gliding animation is so cute! Great job! Only thing that needs work is some of the platforming and ladder-climbing, as it is a bit hard to adjust to, but other than that, it was really fun to play.

Very complete experience. Very cool.

Wow amazing job! I can only dream to be able to make art in Pico-8 like that.
Really like the glider mechanic, the little air swooshes is a nice touch.
Could see a whole game like Cave Story being made like this.

Super charming and fun! Love the particle effects

This was wonderful. Lovely music, a tidy metroidvania world, tight controls and fits the theme amazingly.

This is super great. Really cute lil characters and music. I especially like the bits of dialogue that hint at a larger world and history to explore. Gave me cave story vibes a bit :)

Super cute, super fun, I wanted more by the end.

Beautiful artstyle, feels very charming. Dialogs are great too, gameplay as well and controls are nice too, although I felt pretty unsure with myself when climbing. Nice one. :)

an impressive job if I had to make a game like this with pico-8 in such a short time I would have died well done

That was fantastic! I liked everything about it, the colors, the worldbuilding, music, characters - everything is on a very high level of polish and the progression is super rewarding. Very well done!

Definitely one of my favorites from entire jam, I love everything about this game: cute pixelart with cozy color palette, mega-man-like screen transitions, music, metroidvania style gameplay with backtracking and unlocking abilities, little fragments of lore that can be discovered by talking with NPCs, and flying on hang-glider!

Satisfying metroidvania game loop. The progressive unlocking was rewarding and the dialog brought vibrancy to the game world.

I'm not sure there's anything obvious that needs to be added. As others are stating, more level would be nice, but what you have is really sufficient for the scope of this project.

Good job on making an enjoyable game that really feels complete. It was a pleasure to play.

Really impressive output!! Definitely thought it was a Jam game, so even more kudos. :dizzy_face: Only nit is that the movement could be a little faster.

Solid pico8 submission. A really cute little platformer. Reminds me of the metroid games with the new abilities you unlock. Love the graphics, especially the backgrounds. Great work!

The art is so charming and the whole mood is so wholesome, the climbing bit where a bit difficult at first, but overall its a very nice experience, it's incredible how you pulled it on Pico8 and on Compo

Incredible art! Even more impressive as a compo submission. Well polished game and looking forward to more levels/gameplays.

You really made me to consider pico8 for the next Lumdum Dare event.

This game is sooooo cute. The art is incredible, the sounds are so cute, the mood reminds me of knytt and cave story. I just love games like these! The ending was adooorable.

Pixel God!!!!!

Beautiful, charming, perfect mood, so wholesome! Great game, well done!

pico gang! I'm super impressed, the mood and art of this game is crazy good. It's hard to think what could be improved because you executed what I feel you aimed for very well, and that's a very important part of a jam game as well. especially appreciate the ability curve. great job!

Absolutely stunning game! Gave me studio ghibli vibes :D Amazing job, It's unbelievable that you made such a polished and clean game in compo. Very nice job! All 5.

Oh my, oh my it's hard to find words. I played with your last Ludum Dare game as well and as a fellow pico entry creator I feel defeated! :D
I'm surprised that only a few of the comments pointed out the quality of the level design and the overall logic behind the game. Maybe metroidvania means this as well, but yeah, the progress system was on spot, great new mechanics came in with the perfect pace. I can't imagine how many coffees did you take in the last two days, but it was well worth it!
The athmosphere of the game is amazing. The art and the music as well, it puts together the perfect vibe. I will be surprised if I find a better entry for this jam.
Hats off!

Really cool game! Everything feels nice and polished, and it was fun to play. Good job!

Oh the only thing I'd improve is grabbing the ladder when in mid-air, that was a little inconsistent for me

suuuuper cool! Loved the level design, going back to areas I couldn't get to initially felt really satisfying and I never really got lost. The exploration was great, the dialogs were adorable, the movement was robust, the artstyle worked really well along with the screen ratio. Only suggestion I'd make maybe would be to up the contrast between the background and foreground, and maybe lower the saturation to fit with retro games aesthetic (but that's really up to you honestly). Definitely one of my favorite submissions! Inspired me to make a story game next year as well with the same type of progression elements

suuuuper cool! Loved the level design, going back to areas I couldn't get to initially felt really satisfying and I never really got lost. The exploration was great, the dialogs were adorable, the movement was robust, the artstyle worked really well along with the screen ratio. Only suggestion I'd make maybe would be to up the contrast between the background and foreground, and maybe lower the saturation to fit with retro games aesthetic (but that's really up to you honestly). Definitely one of my favorite submissions!

This is of my favorite submissions so far. I love PICO-8 games! The gliding felt so cool and I loved seeing you get more items as you deliver letters to people.

Finally some metroidvania! This dare was so lacking in that genre and here we are. Gotta say, really impressed by the level of polish and a short digestable story without any loose ends. You also made me interested in PICO-8 too.

I don't know what PICO-8 is, but I love the style of this game!

The different movement mechanics are very smooth overall, and I really enjoy the look and feel of your game it just feels very polished which is sooo difficult to achieve in a game jam haha. Very good job !

But I wanted to fly the airship! :(

It did leave me wanting more. Nicely done 👍.

Thanks for this cool retro experience! Really loved how this is quite a long and involving journey with a pleasing level design. Maybe, I'd love more Ghibli style music here, various tunes added. But this game is very well designed overall, great job!

Wow! what an incredible Pico 8 cart. I loved my journey to the airship, and enjoyed the progession as I explored the small world you created. I wish I could spend more time above the surface!

Super cute and fun game! Really liked the lil snippets of lore about the larger world!

Really pretty little landscape, and a really charming world too! Gameplay was good, but I felt a few things held it back from being great. Grabbing climbable things was really picky. It'd be nice if it let you do so just for holding up while falling, rather than just pushing up. I also felt movement was a bit slow. I was delighted to see the glider though, it was really fun to use! I also wanted the balance of backtracking to progress to be a bit different, it'd be nice if I could have explored more in between each backtrack, and just had fewer backtracks. Let me bunch two deliveries up, instead of basically just one at a time!

Love the Game!!!

Very peaceful music that reminds me of Cave Story. Meeting the inhabitants of the island and delivering their mail was nice, as it also had some neat world-building anecdotes. Good work!

I really liked it. I only screwed up after I took the paper plane, maybe my English is getting in the way.

love the tiny art

This might be my favorite I've played so far. Super pretty, and the music is nice too. It was very relaxing to play. This world is really interesting!

The one issue I found was a typo in the last person's dialog---and considering how nitpicky that sounds I think you did a good job :)

I loved the setting and overall mood of the game! Very polished with a lot of content for a compo entry, well done!

great job! beautiful game!

Yay, someone else who used Pico-8!
Really lovely games, loved the graphics and the music! Really reminded me of Cave Story and captured the vibe of some areas from that game. I just wish my jump went a -little- further horizontally, but felt great to get the glider. More games need gliders! I'm very impressed, good Compo game for sure!

What a delight! Loved the graphics, the music, and really all of the vibes - and very fun that it's on the pico-8! It also feels really complete :D

My only (small!) gripe is that I found needing to re-tap up to grab ladders midair to be unintuitive and so for a while I figured I was taking the wrong approach until I figured out I had to re-press the key instead of just having it held.

Very impressive entry - the sprites look great, the game sounds and feels clean. Controls are easy, and the gliding is fun once you get it!

I will love and rate all the PICO-8 entries I found in every Ludum Dare, and your entry is definitely one of the most loveable lol. Very nice artstyle and tracks, and the Metroidvania idea is helping me get to know how to explore the map eventually. Thank you for bringing in this entry!

enjoyed playing this! the glider was fun to use

I loved the visuals, audio was nice and suited the game very well. My favorite thing about the game is how your given some exploration to do by finding the packages. It works out great getting to talk to people before and after they get packages and the progression that comes from this is very satisfying.

What charming game. Great combination of the theme and a metroidvania progression system. Lovely graphics and sound.

Simple but very fun. So wholesome. I loved the music too

Great entry! I loved the art, the music, the mecanisms... Congrats!

Excellent style and general feel! The characters were all charming and the world had an interesting story painted for it.

Very good game - loved the art and the gameplay mechanics very much. Also a great idea for a delivery game as a mini metroidvania :D

Loved the game. Really aesthetic graphics, mechanics and music. If I have to give a suggestion then it would be to make platforms a little closer since I had to move until the point where I would fall and then jump in order to reach the next one.

Big fan of this one, very relaxing and nice use of item gating to increase the play time of a smaller map. It was cute that the items came from the letter recipients and I thought this tied the story and progression together nicely.

I had a nice time playing this one! graphic got me! mechanics feel fresh and fun! Great job!

This was cute and fun and polished. Very nice. The combination of the music and the floating island setting reminded me a lot of Cave Story.

Very good game. Great graphic which fit with music. I like sound effects. Nice to see savepoint and give player slowly presentation (show new mechanics) with more items nice :) Only if I can suggest something I will reverse key X with C. Many times I was clicked jump(Z) and try to use plane with (X) not (C) because it the nearest key. Good job. Mega kudos for you :)

Hard to believe this is a compo game! Very well done little adventure and has wonderful charm to it. It also does a great job of not overstaying its welcome, though even then I would have been happier with a slightly longer game. Wonderfully done though.

Great game overall, a bit short, and the pause when the screen moves was a bit annoying, especially when gliding, but otherwise I enjoyed it.

This game is so polished, that I can see my own refelection! One word: wouw! I love your game! The story elements, the way packages progress the story and contain something useful for the next part is very clever. I adore the graphics. <3



A very relaxing little metroidvania. Very speedrunnable as well lol. I don't really have any complaints tbh. Loved the overall level design of the map and the pace at which you were pretty much always progressing. Let it be a new ability (eg: paper plane) or a new type of obstacle (eg: rock wall).

I do wish there were some sort of threats or enemies in the game, but that would probably take away from what is a very calming game overall. Either way, great work on this

Lots of attention to detail, and a nice variety. I also think the flying is great.

I hear this is pico-8, and in not sure what that is, but it looks awesome.

Nice clouds, especially!

I'm wowed by how complete of an experience this is. Everything works smoothly, and it's really nice how you can progress by receiving items from the NPCs along with some lore crumbs. Gives my brain that dopamine hit from fulfilling quests!
I think for the last part you're supposed to scale the ladder and I could for the life of me not figure out how to do it, but that may be more of a skill issue on my part.

Really cute game! The backtracking was a little harsh at times, but I guess I shouldn't complain too much for what's otherwise a really solid project. Great job!

Really cute game! The backtracking was a little harsh at times, but I guess I shouldn't complain too much for what's otherwise a really solid project. Great job!

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WOW! I'm extremely impressed that this is a compo game! Well done!!!

This game is incredible. And on top of that, it was done in Pico-8. The gameplay is perfect. Platforming controls are amazing, and the atmosphere and music fit perfectly. Great submission.

This was amazing, really liked the vibe and the setting!

A great little game to relax after playing a lot of stressful delivery games. Loved it!

all five stars!!!!nice game, this is my top 3 of this game jam,,,all details are nice ,and jumping feelings are great(hope there can have some fault tolerance time when leave platform like dead cells ,,very nie game !!

Amazing game! Every bit of this game was polished, and it was fun all the way to the end.

Nice short metroidvania. I have to wonder why I got stuck on first cliff climbing but managed on second try. Kinda missing secrets but for LD jam it's acceptable.

fantastic! --- I love the intro to the game that makes me think of that of Vice City, so cool --- works really well! --- I'd advise you leave other video settings than full screen cause the dialogs in particular hurt the eyes a tad ^^# --- but I love the PICO8 mood --- the fact you can see letters that are out-of-reach for not at the start of the game feels like the oldest trick in the books --- like from obscure titles I'd check out on fonw windows 3.1 or 95 machines --- still works just as well, I aint sayin :-P --- also using the mailposts as checkpoints are _**GENIUS!!**_ --- well done and thanks for this experience, great fun lil game :grinning: :sparkles:

Beautiful design of world. But too much particles and big input lag on my pc.

Saw that pico png and knew I was in for a good time, and I was right! Solid controls, a really charming style and music, and all the sound effects just hit. Amazing to put together a mini-metroidvania for a Ludum Dare Compo, great job!

AMAZING! Amazing music! Amazing art! Amazing gameplay! Amazing story! 5/5 Best game in the jam!

Nice little platformer with minimalistic graphics and sounds.

It was pretty fun to play, although controls felt a little quirky and underpolished. Graphics are nice, sounds and music are on point, story and upgrades are enough to keep player engaged until the end. Nice work!

Super cute! This is very well put together, practically a commercial game already! The audio is very fitting and cute, the world feels alive with movement and character, and I love the mailbox checkpoints! Oh and the mood of the game gives me a warm feeling inside. Very well done, I played the whole game!

WOW you're game is amazing! I had so much fun playing it! I can think only one thing to optimize maybe is making the climbing on ladders easier, sometimes it's hard to be precise with the keyboard arrows so I get stuck by the ground above

Beautiful game! The music and art were very nice. The storytelling was also great--I loved the hints that there was a vast and mysterious world beyond this island. It all captured a sense of wonder that's really impressive for any game, let alone a compo entry. Awesome job!

Had some issues running the game from the ludum dare page, but worked from itch:

Really polihsed and pretty game! Im amazed that this was a compo game :D Really awesome stuff!

I love this, it was so sweet and I love metroidvanias, so I overall had a really good time. The visuals were just stunning, and the music too. I am so impressed that this was a compo game, I had to re-read it multiple times just to check! The story and world, I just wish I could explore it more, honestly, I was getting lost in it. The controls were really nice as well, a nice speed and the gliding was satisfying. I will say the early jumps before the glide were really precise, probably a bit too much so. It was really tricky and got quite frustrating at parts. I also noticed the ladders were a bit awkward at times, but that didn't stop me from really enjoying this game. Nice work!

Absolutly stunning. Really fun nice mix of upgrades and exploration.

Wow, this might be my favorite pico game I've ever seen. Impressive amount of stuff here for a compo game, too. Graphics and music are really charming and the dialogue is cute! Only critique is maybe that grabbing ladders in midair was a bit tricky, but overall this is a really really impressive entry, well done.

edit: also the music reminded me of the track "plant" from cave story specifically

this was the perfect game. spot on theme. stunning graphics and perfect sounds and story. you really made an incredible world in a short amount of time.

Really great game. Super well done.
I really enjoyed the mini Metroid mania vive of exploring the level and find new ways to proceed further.

I love pico 8 games, this game looks beautiful and plays really fun as well!

Really nice, charming visual style. I like the slow introduction of new mechanics. The glider was my favorite, but it took me a little bit to figure out to use it hopping from ladder to ladder. It was a bit unclear to me if I was doing something or not with the first cave ladder I saw. I wasn't sure if I was climbing wrong or I was missing a key item. Unfortunately, the gameplay just felt like different flavors of fetch quests, and backtracking wasn't fun. Seeing different parts of the island was fun, but the delivery aspect felt like a chore and I really just wanted to make it to the end.

I love everything about that game, a truly tiny masterpiece !! The general mood so melancholy by the music and the dialogues are so great !! Gameplay feels very good too ! The pixelart are incredible !! Really well done!!

Absolutely incredible!

I've played others pico-8 games here in the jam and your is the best so far (by the way, yours is my top 5 best mood games; I really enjoyed this).

The pixel art is adorable and I loved the little details: the dust when we move, the wind when gliding, the care with the NPCs...

The music is relaxing and it doesn't get boring with time, which is great!

I managed to finish your game, but can't find one of the person to deliver the letter (by the way, the letter count on top-right of the screen showed 9/9 but I still had one letter to deliver; It was a bug?)

Overall, a excellent entry! Congrats!

This is remarkable on its own and especially for being done in a weekend AND in Pico 8 where you make everything yourself. Very complete and polished experience. Wow! Hats off

Very pretty and super cute. I like the aesthetics and sfx. Concise and polished with responsive controls that left me with nothing to blame except myself when I fell. I liked the glider a lot.

@joao-marcello thanks for the great feedback! I don’t think what you ran into was a bug. The top right indicator counts how many letters you have found, but not how many you delivered. Since you were carrying one more that means there was still an NPC out there you needed to deliver too. That’s definitely intentional though. Delivering all of the letters is more of a completionist task than one that’s expected for everyone to do.

It's hard to add some new warm words to the commentators above me. I love pico8 and this game is a gem among all of them. Impressive work for the Ludum Dare!

So cute I really loved the art and the amount of characters in the game I could talk to and pico8 games are just always the cutest! Amazing work

Such a lovely little game, it's really just what I was looking to play. An easy going, fun mini metroidvania, there's not much more to say than thank you for making it

Never given straight 5's until I saw this. Elegant, clean, complete, and masterfully-crafted game. A small metroidvania dripping with style and personality. Amazing work!

This is pico8 right? More pico8 required for LD game jams! Amazing work and totally on theme for the jam too!

This was an amazing, terrific adventure, and it blows my mind that you made it in 48 hours. It's a full-fledged adventure with some sweet, adorable writing and some cool light-Metroidvania-ness going on! I especially loved gliding around, and it was great how tight the controls were even on my laptop keyboard!

I gladly 100%-ed this one and look forward to checking out other things you've made, as well as future LD entries from you :D

Wonderful little game! Great graphics and sound, an actual story, nice skill progression. Excellent work!

I managed to reach the END. The world within this game is very warm, the colors of twilight are lovely, and the nostalgic sound is wonderful. It made me feel like I wanted to immerse myself in it forever :)

This is lovely. The graphics, music and design all agree with each other in such a satisfying and atmospheric way, and the level design x thematic ability unlocking is just spot on. Great work!