PicoTowns
PicoTowns is a town building game inspired by the boardgame Tiny Towns (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/265736/tiny-towns) and the game Tiny Islands (https://dr-d-king.itch.io/tiny-islands).
Build a town out of buildings that arrive in the form of tetris style pieces. Each turn you have a choice from a big or a small piece to add to your town. You have 15 turns to arrange them in a way to try and get the highest score possible!
Daily Challenge mode will give everyone the same sequence of pieces, so you can compete with friends for the highest score each day. (On some platforms, you can click the micromap at the end of the game to copy your score to the clipboard)
In game help is available (click on ?) - this will explain scoring with some diagrams.
I am happy to hear any feedback that you have!
Scoring:
Adjacent = All touching spaces (including diagonal)
Each building scores individually as follows:
Building | (Colour) | Scoring |
House | Red | 2 per House in same row and column including itself |
Park | Green | 1 per Park in same blob of parks |
Shop | Blue | 2 per adjacent House, 1 per adjacent other building (not Parks, Empty) |
School | Yellow | 12 - 4 per school in the same row and column (capped at 0) |
Govt | Pink | 2 per distance from the two closest edges (top/bottom, left/right) |
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Author | boardgame_detective |
Genre | Puzzle |
Made with | PICO-8 |
Tags | Pixel Art, Singleplayer, Tetris, tile-placement |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Mouse, Touchscreen |
Accessibility | Color-blind friendly, High-contrast |
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I'm really looking forward to trying PicoTowns - it looks like a great mix of building strategy and fun!
You look like the type of person who'd enjoy this jam: WOW JAM
They have a very interesting platform and are even offering prizes xD
Daily Challenge 30.4.25 : 448
Thanks for playing!
1.5.25 : 483
Thanks for making and sharing this. If you added basic controls, I would love to get a p8 file so I can play this on my retro handhelds.
Thanks! I made this to play on my phone but if there is interest I can add a way to move and click the cursor with the dpad and buttons!
So far my top score is 590!
Top scores are of course limited by the random deal of the pieces for each game.
If you play the Daily Challenge, post your score in the comments!