~Made for GBJAM 8~

Help Bea investigate mysterious ruins and help her new alien friends by solving picross puzzles! Featuring over 12 recruitable aliens, each with their own helpful ability.

CONTROLS:
Control pad: WASD or arrow keys
A: Z or M
B: X or N
Start: Enter or space bar

TIPS & TRICKS:

Never played picross before? Confused by the rules? Stuck on a puzzle? Read up on the game here!
You can hold the button down to mark several squares in one fell swoop.
Once you've recruited a few aliens past the first three, you can customize your team by pressing the space bar on the map screen!
There is currently no direct way to exit out of a puzzle you didn't mean to start, though you can fail it on purpose with no penalty.
Abilities that reveal lines and columns "stack", which means using three characters who reveal one random line will always reveal three random lines, and so on.
According to my uncle who works at GBJam, look under the truck to find a super powerful secret monster!!!

Code and concept by Fredison
Art and character designs by Pyromantic
Music by Dmytro Nebesh

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5, Windows
Rating	Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (34 total ratings)
Authors	Fredison, Pyromantic, Dmytro Nebesh
Genre	Puzzle
Made with	Unity
Tags	2D, Anime, Casual, Cute, Fantasy, Female Protagonist, GBJam, Pixel Art, Retro, Sci-fi
Average session	About an hour
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard

Download

Pikupals v1.2 PC.zip 38 MB

Development log

Version 1.2: Options, controller support and an announcement
Nov 04, 2020
Version 1.1: Post-Jam Jamboree
Sep 14, 2020
5 Picross Games That Inspired Pikupals
Sep 09, 2020

Comments

Gigglemoo315 days ago(+1)

Fun game! Enjoyed spending a half hour with it. :)

Pete Ellison1 year ago(+1)

Super cute! Wonderful art and a really inventive way to tell a story!

Glyssie1 year ago(+1)

Absolutely delightful! I love the art style.

Arktima1 year ago(+1)

love it, very cute. <3

elilla1 year ago(+1)

This was a cool picross game! I love the characters and I was delighted to discover the secret one behind the truck.

My friendly suggestions for improvements if ever wanted would be:

An ending sequence with all characters in the spaceship or a planet would be fantastic!
The powerups get a bit repetitive; all of them are either extra hearts, or revealing tiles. I think many quality-of-life features of modern picross games could be made into powerups for more diversity. For example, marking each individual number as completed as you work on a line, a brush with temporary markers for planning, or an invincible mode that doesn’t punish you for mistakes (at the cost of not informing you whether the marked tile is correct or not either, until you solve the entire puzzle).

Fredison1 year ago

Thank you so much! Your feedback is appreciated. We probably won't update this game, but I'm hoping to work on more picrossy goodness in the future. Watch this space!

mick.morset2 years ago(+1)

A delightful little game!

SpookyBeaks3 years ago(+1)

Cute and easy game ^^ the puzzles were pretty easy but of course got harder with each level. The story and characters were so cute and i loved being able to meet each of them ^^ really glad i decided to play this game ^^

Fredison3 years ago

Glad you enjoyed it!

briellek3 years ago(+1)

really cute game! i love how the nonograms were really a part of the story and the character's powerups!

RafGamer3 years ago(+1)

Really liked to play this game! It is in my Top 5 of this week!

Check my video!

Fredison3 years ago(+1)

That's really cool! Thanks for the shout-out!

DeathCatThor3 years ago(+1)

Can You make a GB or GBA build? I would love that

Fredison3 years ago