Pico Raiders

Fight other Vikings in a battle-royale against up to 4 human or CPU players. Even when no human players are left the CPU will continue to fight it out until the bitter end. First time players are recommended to read instructions first.

Game Controls:

• Arrow keys to select direction or change menu option

• X or V to confirm action

• Z or C to cancel action

• Ctrl+M to turn off sounds

Mobile Controls:

• Very similar except in the virtual handset the O button represents the Z key

Controllers:

• You can use any game controllers recognized by SDL with PICO-8

Browser Edition:

The free-to-play browser version.

Download Edition:

The free-to-play downable versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Raspberry-Pi.

Game Breakdown:

• 2 to 4 human/cpu players

  • guide to graphics alike to original

  • menu/enter to reload game

  • cpu players only game will play by itself for you to watch

• Seasons

  • over about 30/40 turns water will freeze and unfreeze

  • catapults and army units can move over frozen water

  • boats can only move across unfrozen water

  • any land units found in unfrozen water drown and die

• Army units

  • can board boats

  • can get drunk (drunk units move by themselves)

  • can pick up gold

  • can recruit/sober drunk army units

  • can recruit empty boats

  • can destroy adjacent occupied boats

• Boats

  • can only move when units onboard

  • can only move on unfrozen water

  • can recruit empty boats

  • can ram other boats to sink them

• Catapults

  • uses ranged combat

  • cannot directly fight

• Victory conditions

  • defeat all the enemy castles

    • requires an army unit to attack castle

  • game ends when no other players remain

  • short delay to give player chance to review

• CPU AI

  • ai is easy to beat, provides minor challenge

  • picks random choice of:

    • return gold (priority action)

    • board friendly boat

    • target closest enemy castle

    • target closest enemy unit

    • target closest drinking horn

    • target closest gold chest

    • (catapults only) move away from enemy units

    • (boats only) head towards enemy castles

Notes:

As this game is a passion project in Pico-8 to remake the original game, Viking Raiders by Mark Lucas, and published by Firebird, no payments or donations will be accepted as this is a not-for-profit creation. This was only created to celebrate one of my favourite games as a child.

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