Dungeon
Explorer

Explore rooms filled with monsters, collect health pickups and fight your way through a top-down dungeon. Learn multi-room layouts, enemy AI and health systems.

👶 Ages 8+⏱️ ~1.5 Hours🎮 Pico-8✓ Free

🏠 Rooms👾 Enemies❤️ Health⚔️ Combat🔑 Keys

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Reference cartridge: download the finished, playable Pico-8 cart for this workshop: ⬇ pico8-dungeon-reference.zip. Every code block also has a Copy button.

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How to run: Open PICO-8, paste the code in the CODE tab, and press Ctrl+R to run!

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How it works: write the code in each step, and the canvas on the right shows what your code does. It is a live preview that builds the game as you go. Type to see it update, or press Apply to Canvas to test it straight away.

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Lumo says: every step adds one feature to the same game. Type a little, click Apply to Canvas, and test it straight away. There is no wrong answer you can't undo.

Build Dungeon Step by Step

Each step adds one feature. Write the code, watch it come alive in the canvas, then make it your own.

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A hero exploring a dark dungeon grid

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You Built a Dungeon Crawler!

Amazing, you've made a real dungeon game with rooms, enemies, combat, health and keys. Now try Episode 4!

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🚀 Episode 4: Space Shooter →

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DungeonExplorer

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Dungeon
Explorer