Dank Tomb would be a good pick! I actually need a guide for that one, lol.
This looks superb by the way.
That'd mean I'd have to actually clear Dank Tomb myself! I feel like I got near the end and then...brick walls everywhere, can't push this, can't light that, can't jump that...lol It's a tough puzzle for sure!
EDIT: Thinking about it, I may do a trial run of 'cracking apart' a game for players to study as a couple of blog posts, covering all the stuff I would want to put into each game covered and how 'fun' that is. I noticed when putting this together, the screenshots I needed were difficult to get with my hand on the controller and the game flying by so fast. All of those pictures except the front of the car were me trying to get a snapshot of the car skidding right into a token! LOL!
Brainstormed what this would be today for fun and the 'format'.
PICO-M8 "The Pico-8 and PicoTron Zine for Players!"
FORMAT:
Since there's absolutely no way to keep up with Pico8 games in real time and, frankly, good games are always fresh, creating a theme for each issue that allows a decent variety of games to be covered would be the ideal. Sort of like the Game Jam idea, but maybe like a Review Jam...an october issue would be obviously 'spooky games!' or something similar.
The actual structure I imagined would be something like:
-COVER
-INSIDE FRONT COVER/ISSUE CREDITS
-CONTENTS + EDITORIAL INTRO
-TOP GAME REVIEW (4-8 PAGES DEPENDENT ON MATERIAL)
-TOP GAME REVIEW (OPTIONAL 2ND GAME, 2-4 PAGES)
-TOP GAME REVIEW (OPTIONAL 3RD GAME, 2-4 PAGES)
-GOOD GAMES (1 PAGE COVERAGE FOR EACH, UP TO 8 CHOICE GAMES)
-THE REST (1/2 PAGE TO 1/4 PAGE FOR FITTING GAMES BUT MAYBE LACK POLISH)
-CHARTS (1 PAGE SHOWING MY PERSONAL RANKINGS OF THE ISSUE'S GAMES VS. STAR RANKINGS HERE)
-COMING SOON (ANY WIPS AT TIME OF WRITING THAT FIT THE THEME OR ABANDONED WIPS, 1/4 PAGE EACH)
-CLOSING EDITORIAL 1/4 PAGE
-INSIDE BACK COVER (FULL INDEX OF ALL GAMES AND WHAT PAGES FEATURED ON)
-BACK COVER (MAYBE A FUN FAKE 'AD' MADE BY ME FOR A GAME I LIKE)
I broke it down this way in case I were to take it seriously, I can look at page counts based on how long it took to scrounge this mock up together. I'm sure it'd get streamlined after I put together a style guide for the sections and such. I also jotted down some ideas for the format of the reviews/strategies. I really like the original Nintendo Power layouts which were heavily based on Japanese guide books, which are also something I'd like to allow all of it's influence into this project if it happens.
Again, I'm just musing for the moment. I doubt anything will come of this, but the future is uncertain!
EDIT: And the style would be sort of hype machine and the editorials of what games get more coverage would be the low key 'review'...the less pages the game gets, the lower implied rating of 'funness' to me. :P Unless other folks join in, then it'll be up to them then we can have fun arguments about the issue's rankings! :)
EDIT 2: Also NICO PICO is also potential title, based on the parody cart I threw together the other day. It just sounds funny. NICO PICO!
Sounds good. If you ever need a good-looking PICO-8 game to review, lmk! I've spent waay too many hours of my free time trying to catalog them all.
With web access and a permanent link on the post ID, this would be a nice addition to my pico-8 gallery. Some information can be automatically retrieved from the bbs post, such as screenshots, cartridge characteristics and descriptions.
It looks good.
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