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PixelDailies-0625

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:54:35 UTC

PixelDailies-0625

by thesailor

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I created an ArtCart to show off the 16x16 pixel art I create for the daily prompts given out by the PixelDailies discord.

Feel free to use the art for your games or projects. Just keep in mind that it's for non-commercial use as I also create sprites that are fan made in likeness.

I have only done a few prompts and will update as I go along.

SCOUNDREL (Now with tutorial)

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:01:58 UTC

Scoundrel v1.8.1 (Non_Minified)

by thesailor

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THIS VERSION HAS THE HALLWAY SCENE REMOVED SO THAT I DON'T NEED TO USE SHRINKO8

A simple roguelike game.

I'm still working on some things but the game is playable! The original game was created by Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg.

HOW TO PLAY

LEFT & RIGHT KEYS (Select your card)
X KEY (Attack with Fist | Use Potion | Pick up weapon)
Z KEY (Attack with Weapon)

RULES

There are only 44 cards to the deck. (The RED face cards have been removed)
DMD (Diamonds) - Are weapons you can pick up. If you have a weapon attached it will automatically gain a attack limit (BLACK card behind it). You can only attack monsters of the SAME or LOWER limit attached to the weapon. If you don't have a weapon or your weapon limit is too low, you can attack with your FIST.
HRT (Hearts) - Health Potions. YOU CAN ONLY USE ONE POTION PER ROOM!
SPD | CLB (Spades and Clubs) - Monster cards which rank from 2-14 (J(11),Q(12),K(13),A(14))
Each new dungeon room has four cards to get past. Once you have 1 card left in your hand you move on to the next room.
You have the option to FLEE a room if you choose. Those cards will be shuffled back into the BOTTOM of your deck. You cannot FLEE two rooms consecutively.

SCORING

Getting out of the dungeon means playing through the entire deck. Once you have played all the cards and none remain, your score will be your current HP points.
If you have ZERO HP points, the game ends. All monsters left in the dungeon are subtracted from your ZERO HP.

ART AND CODE - TheSailor
MUSIC - The Packbats

DIY Game Booklet

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:14:20 UTC

I created this booklet design for my game Gemstone Dredging
It's a tiny printable booklet template you can use to create a custom game manual for your Pico-8 games (or for any other use really).

DOWNLOAD HERE

Gemstone Dredging 1.9

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:16:49 UTC

Gemstone Dredging 1.9

by thesailor

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The life of a Dredger can be one filled WITH RICHES... AND PERIL...
Go deep sea diving to find your riches!
But be wary...

Try not to disturb the KRAKEN or you are in for a FIGHT!
If you find yourself in a fight, use discovered gems to help you.

[ HINTS ]

Make sure to flag potential KRAKEN TILES if you don't want to trigger an unwanted 4+ battle!
Unused GEMS are used as BONUS points to your score each round!
Flagged KRAKEN tiles earns bonus points!

NEW MUSIC HAS BEEN ADDED

DOWNLOAD A TINY GAME MANUAL YOU CAN PRINT OUT

DOWNLOAD FROM ITCH.IO

HOW TO FOLD A ZINE

How rich can you become...

[ CONTROLS ]
[ Cursor keys / D-Pad ] - Movement
[ X ] - Open tile
[ O/Z ] - Plant flag

NEW ABILITY!!!

You can now HEAL when on the tile grid by pressing [ X + O ] together!

Button swapping is available

NOTES:

This is my first full game. I am still new to game dev as well as coding.

I am quite proud of this game even though it is a simple concept.

There are many ways I could improve it on the code as well as gameplay.

I am not sure if I will continue developing this but if there are any bugs please do let me know.

[ UPDATE 1.1 ]

Realised the scoring was not functional!

[ UPDATE 1.2 ]

Player won't trigger a mine when opening your first tile. There is still a chance of opening your first tile and triggering a 4+ battle however.
Added sound effects to HEAL and button selection in the battle screen

[ UPDATE 1.3 ]

Kraken has a chance of missing you when attacking in battle.
Player was hit (visually, no HP was taken off) when beating a kraken. This has been fixed. The kraken now leaves without (visually) hitting the player.
Added some particle effects to the battle.

[ UPDATE 1.4 ]

The TUTORIAL button now WORKS!!

[ UPDATE 1.5 ]

Previously the end of the tutorial just reset the game. Now it goes straight into gameplay.
More particle effects
Trying to balance the enemy missing you when attacking

[ UPDATE 1.6 ]

Done a bit of token farming for further implementations
Player won't trigger a battle with the Kraken on his first go at opening tiles if they hit a 4+ warning tile within the first 9 tiles.

[ UPDATE 1.7 ]

You can now heal when on the tile grid by pressing X + O (if you have heal gems!)
Fixed the bug where opening the last set of tiles could trigger a 4+ battle.
Added a touch more juice!

[ UPDATE 1.8 ]

I have added 2 new tracks.

[ UPDATE 1.9 ]

I fixed the number overflow when scoring more than 32k. You can now get a huge high score!
Fixed the version numbering
Tweaked the music tracks

BEAR HUNTER NINJA

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:58:53 UTC

BEAR HUNTER NINJA

by thesailor

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[ BEAR HUNTER NINJA ]

The rules are simple.

From the three cards offered you get to pick one.

The computer then picks its choice of card from the same selection.

Hunter wins against Bear

Bear wins against Ninja

Ninja wins against Hunter

Will the card you pick win?

Banana Adventures - 1.0

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:32:52 UTC

Banana Adventures - 1.0

by thesailor

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I started this game last year. I need to finish it.
There's no story yet. It was just artwork I came up with as I really want to build a platformer.
Also I hate how gingers are portrayed as bad guys in movies (as I am one - ginger I mean).

There's mean koalas... and yummy bananas...
There's also double jump.
And a song I got from the forums. I will credit the artist in the game as soon as I remember where I pulled it from.

[ THINGS I HAVE LEARNED ]

Using bigger than 8x8 sprites
Using mulitple collision checks
Using tables

[ ASTRO ] - 1.5

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:48:32 UTC

[ ASTRO ] - 1.5

by thesailor

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This is a game I started at the beginning of the 2023. I wanted to create something simple while learning PICO-8. As you can tell the game is not finished but I am working on completing it during the next few days. I code while at sea and that can be difficult to make progress while working.

There are still things missing. My biggest hurdle is to make the game feel balanced. Right now it is too easy.

[ THINGS I HAVE LEARNED ]

Using bigger than 8x8 sprites
Collision boxes
Starting to wrap my head around using functions within tables (OOP?)

[ HOW TO PLAY ]

UP to JUMP
DOWN to SLIDE
X to BOOST your JUMPS

[ UPDATES ]

Version 1.1
I loved @taxicomics idea of adding an X button to the HUD and since PICO is so easy to mockup things quickly I added the idea. Thanks!

Version 1.2
Small update

Added meteors flying in the atmosphere
Added sounds and particles to the pickups

Version 1.3

Added a dialog system
Added a tutorial page

Version 1.4

Music by the talented @Gruber - Space Lizards

Version 1.5

Just a small update to a few things

Music & SFX clashing

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:14:32 UTC

I am struggling to wrap my head around how the Music() and SFX() call functions work. I have a music track and some sfx calls that clash even though I have stipulated that the sfx calls only call on an unused channel. I have also tried to use the channel mask argument for Music() but can't seem to figure it out.

Basically a soundtrack plays while the game is running. Pressing a jump or collecting coins all trigger a sound effect that causes the backing soundtrack (Music()) to skip notes.

Could someone please maybe explain to me how I can have music AND call sound effects properly so they don't interrupt each other?

Search table - If match found/Alter match

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:02:40 UTC

I am struggling to wrap my head around creating a function to search though a table for matching positions and then replacing the matching value with a new value.

The idea is for a simple racing game. Every time an obstacle/car leaves the screen it is deleted from the table and new obstacle/car is generated with a new position.

The new position is randomly picked from a list of pre-chosen positions. But this means that there are occasions where the obstacles/cars overlap because they have randomly picked the same positions as an existing obstacle/car already in the table of obstacles.

My rough concept of the idea runs like this...

Create obstacle table
Create new obstacle
- Check if obstacle table is empty - add new obstacle
- If not empty
  -- Loop through table of obstacles and compare x/y pos values
  -- If a match is found(overlap) then change the x/y pos of the new
  obstacle BEFORE adding it to the table
  -- Maybe loop again to perform another check???

Farmbot - Toy v1

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:09:55 UTC

Farmbot - Toy

by thesailor

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FARM BOT

Hey. This is a toy and not a fully fledged game. I was working through @SpaceCat tutorial on YouTube and developed a touch further than where he left off. I learnt a lot from his video as well as, I have to give a shout out to @Lazydev and @DocRob. They all have amazing informative channels on YouTube as well.

EDIT: Also I forgot to thank NerdyTeacher as well. I yoinked the LERP function from the PICO VIEW web zine. Would really be awesome if there was a PDF/printable version of PICO VIEW. Being out at sea with bad internet makes looking up reference hard.

Like I said, this is a toy. I am still learning a lot and have only completed one Fantasy Console game (CHIPPY - LowresNX). But I have to admit that this is far too addictive playing with Pico8.

I dabbled with adding caterpillars as "enemies" but haven't taken it further than spawning them.

V1 - I have added some sounds to play around with the feel. I have also looked at adding character portraits.

LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN (Movement)
Z/O (Selection in the hotbar/Action in menus
X (Action button in game/Open+Close menus