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 NES is a complete game with all the gameplay. Still to do:

This game is meant to have two graphics modes that you can swap between. The higher resolution "NES-mode" isn't implemented yet so what you see is the low resolution "Pico8-mode". All the effects with lots of CHR graphics bank swapping combined with tile and palette effects are in there though. 

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 Pico8 game.

Also included in the purchase is the original Pico8-version, playable as a standalone app for Windows/Mac/Linux/Raspberry Pi and in a browser.