This is my submission for the #TweetTweetJam. Use the arrow keys to dodge things. I was able to fit saving and a sound in the 560 characters as well! Also play on itch.io.
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So, there is a parsing bug with the unique "+=", "-=", "*=", "/=", and "%=" PICO-8 flavored lua syntax. In normal lua, something like this:
b=odds[2]b=b-1 |
is valid syntax, treated as two separate expressions. That works in PICO-8, but this:
b=odds[2]b-=1 |
throws a syntax error. It's odd because this:
odds={1,3,5}b-=1 |
does not throw a syntax error. It seems to be only with the unique PICO-8 equals operators and directly after square brackets.
Fixing this could benefit people working on tweet carts as well as carts that are token & character/compression sensitive.
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A game made by my middle school English students. Each class had 20 minutes to tell me what to make from scratch. There were 4 classes.
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OS: Arch Linux
Browser: Chromium
The little pause/play button on the BBS player will pause and play the cart if you click it, but if you press the "enter" key on the dialogue to either continue or reset the cart, the pause/play button doesn't change (it should go back to the pause icon, but it remains as the play icon).
Here is a lil' cart to test it out real quick:
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Operating System: Arch Linux.
In "config.txt" if
root_path ./ |
is set, then whenever you try to "cd" within PICO-8, you get a
cd failed |
error message. But if you change the root path to something other than "./", then PICO-8 works fine. It even works fine if you replace the "./" with a "../", which is a bit silly :D. It also works if you delete the "root_path" line.
Here is what the error message looks like:
:D.
EDIT: Ok, cd also doesn't work when you use the "-root_path ./" command-line parameter, but I guess that should have been common sense I guess.
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Note: To see updates to this post, check out my blog here.
So I was working on making an improved version of "The Story of Zeldo" and realized a few weeks ago that outlining my sprites was taking up more CPU cycles than I wanted it to. I was using the outlining function where the palette is cleared to a color, then 8 sprites are drawn around the actual sprite to produce an outline effect as shown here. I decided to change all the sprites that needed outlines to 10x10 instead of 8x8.
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You can see the 10x10 sprites at the bottom right of the graphic. Getting rid of the outlining function like this improved my CPU, but wasted sprite space. I later needed more sprite space, but didn't want to take a CPU hit. Then I thought, what if I use rectangles to draw the outline of sprites instead of drawing actual sprites for the outline?
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Improved the text box system, and some code refactoring. I'm gonna use some of the stuff I improved here in future games!
For the BYUi game jam! By Alex, Alan, and Cam. Also available on itch.io!
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I really wanted to make a Pico-8 turing machine simulator. This is fully functional, with 1 tape. I want to allow the user to interact with the clipboard for ease of use. And this program will look prettier in the future.
If you have any input/ideas, feel free to comment!
Check it out on github!
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A space game I made with my friend Alex in 5 hours for a hackathon. You can use a laser, but it doesn't do anything. The topic for the contest was procedural generation, so the planets are procedurally generated (plus they have cool names).
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Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
Disclaimer, this game is about the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus! Enjoy :)
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Pin The Nose. Christmas Edition!!!
Before playing this game, here are some questions you should ask yourself:
- Are you really bored?
- Do you need a stupid, but funny, teaching aid for some little kids?
- Do you like Santa Clause?
- Or Frosty?
- Or Rudolph?
For those who answered "yes" to any of the questions above:
This game is definitely for you! You will probably be playing this game for the
next 5 minutes. Later today, you might even show this game to your kids when
they come back from school, because it is so silly.
For those who answered "no" to all of the questions above:
This game is definitely not for you. In fact, this game would probably drive
you crazy. You shouldn't even press the play button.
Think of an annoying 12-year-old boy you may know. Now think of the video game
he plays for hours everyday. Now think about how much you hate that game. Now
imagine that the game you are about to play is just as bad or even worse.
That's right, worse. Please, save yourself from nightmares tonight and don't
play this game.
Thank you.
-- Alan Morgan
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The base game engine is pretty much complete. Some of the things I plan to finish in the next week is:
- saving the level you got to and score
- having a scoring system
- pretty backgrounds, and particle effects. I'm definitely going to use fillp(). That sounds legit.
- animation for game over
- lives need pics
- the tileset changes themes. (there will be a cloud theme, hell/fire theme, and earth theme, and maybe a space theme, who knows)
- temporary power-ups (jump booster, run booster, extra life, countdown/don't have the screen chase you for a bit)
- tutorial level and being able to pick your level based on the highest one you've gotten to at the title screen.
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