Pico8 can be ridiculously powerful when you get to know it, since you can just slam pretty much anything into it. Sprites and audio is super fast to make, and it's overall very fun to work with! So definitely recommend to try it sometime.
Hi! I wrote a post mortem for the game, reflecting a bit about how things went. Thought it might interest you since you played the game. If it does, it's avaliable on the games page :3