Slow Mole Jr.

The expanded NES version is out! 

Short and sweet (and pretty hard) and infinitely replayable is the idea! It displays your records when you beat it so keep improving!

And remember, just like the original Slow Mole, you need to beat the timer to get a new checkpoint. And if you keep playing when you beat it, timers get shorter and shorter.

Slow Mole Jr has two graphics modes; high-res NES style and the more pixelated Pico-8 style. Use the select button at any time to swap between them!

Slow Mole Jr NES is a complete game with all the gameplay, but the sound design is still a work in progress. There's an optional all SFX track that you can swap to by pressing start in game.

The game uses the GNROM mapper with very minimalistic specs and makes some creative use of CHR animation, such as animating the enemy sprites (flashes and insects) through hardware bank swapping.

The game was coded in Pubby's fantastic NESFab toolset which let me recreate all the physics from the Pico-8 game. I wrote a blog post about the process of porting a Pico-8 game to the NES: https://ko-fi.com/Post/Porting-my-Pico-8-game-to-the-NES-F2F7193LW4

Also included in the purchase is the original Pico-8-version, playable as a standalone app for Windows/Mac/Linux/Raspberry Pi and in a browser.

Also, if you haven't, check out the other Slow Mole games:
The original NES game: https://slowmolestudio.itch.io/slow-mole
and the 16-bit sequel: https://slowmolestudio.itch.io/mega-slow-mole