Created for the Pico-8 Advent Calendar 2019.

Polar Panic

Stay alive in the arctic while climate change destroys your habitat! Eat fish to keep your hunger down or you will starve! Stay away from trash and don't fall into the water.

Support more games like this -> Check out my Patreon!

Controls:

  • ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬅️ ➡️ -  jump between floes

That's all there is to it really! Every now and then disaster strikes which will make it harder to stay alive. Do your best.

Good luck!

Credits:

Design/Art/Code: Johan Peitz (@johanpeitz)
Music/Sound: Chris Donnelly (@gruber_music)

About PICO-8 Advent Calender:

This winter a group of PICO-8 elves has worked hard to release a shiny new toy each day until the 25th of December. Check out the PICO-8 Advent Calendar 2019 every day for a new surprise! https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=36076

There's even more festive fun waiting on last year's calendar! https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=32388

Happy Holidays!

Updated 23 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
AuthorJohan Peitz
GenreAction
Made withPICO-8
Tags2D, Arcade, climate-change, climate-crisis, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Retro
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Touchscreen

Comments

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Great little game! Very difficult, haha. The music and the art is very sweet, and the news reel at the bottom is great for the "raising awareness"-factor.

Glad you like it!

I loved it, but I don't survive for long, I died several times hahaha

Nice! I love these small fantasy console games haha

Just purchased picoCAD and came across this awesome game!

It's designed in a really simple and elegant way while appealing to practical problems.

I loved this! I wonder if I can probably make a small game console around it. tbh that will be years in the future when I don't have to worry about my grades lol

(+1)

Make a downloadable version

and also, Cool game

awesome!

Thanks! Glad to hear you enjoyed it!