Alone in Pico

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Alone in Pico

by NuSan

Cart #25149 | 2016-07-12 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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"A suspicious suicide. A chilling curse. A malevolent power. And a wicked dark secret. This is Derceto ...
Choose between Emily Hartwood and Edward Carnby to explore this virtual adventure game inspired by the work of H.P.Lovecraft."

Controls : Arrow keys to move, 'c' or 'v' to interact
Music can be turned off in the menu ('enter' key)

I wrote a (long) post-mortem of this project : here
This is a small "demake" of Alone in the Dark. You can explore and find your way out of the top two floor of the mansion. I tried to keep it close to the original, but there is no fight (if you see an enemy you will die) and the interaction system is simpler. The 3D meshes of the characters are ripped from the original game.

I used a plugin I made to export meshes from Blender with color per triangle and I modified a mesh stripping sample from coder corner to load, strip and convert meshes to character strings. You can find my version (to use with Visual 6) here.

o_o

This is a Pico-8 game?? Really?? o_o

Absolutely fantastic work!

this is friggin AMAZING

i just have to delete all my projects now. im flabbergasted by this lol

This is incredible and you are amazing.

Amazing work!!

you are totally NUTS Antoine :D

This SO good!! Great work NuSan!!!

Just crazy.

Crazy good!!!

Bravo.

10/10 - Would get eaten repeatedly again

Seriously, fabulous work, very good homage. I felt I'd properly gone back in time.

What did you create the assets with? Hand-written verts+curves or imported?

@Felice details in the OP

This is now the coolest thing I have yet seen on the Pico-8. Fantastic job.

@matt: I'm as blind as ever. Thanks. ;)

@NuSan this is absolutely GENIUS!
I used to LOVE playing this on the PC in the early 90's.
How you've managed to squeeze all this into the PICO-8 is pure magic to me! Congrats!! :)

A. Mazing.

wel thats just crazy cool

This is just fantastic all round. Nice work squeezing everything into a single cart!
<3_<3

wowwww
this is super impressive
this game scared me so much when i was younger
still does
but i managed to escape the mansion
finally
after all these years
that's the power of pico-8
well done, nusan :)

p.s.
nice music

@zep I'm glad I finaly put the effort to make the two characters fit in the same cart. It's much better like that. I was also struggling to make everything fit in ram when using 0.1.6 but 0.1.8 saved me by doubling the ram capacity. I was forced to destroy and recreate only what was needed for each screen. Now I still need to do that, but it's much easier.

Any chance of some kind of post-mortem on this? Would be great to find out how you've managed it and how it renders! Really nice!

Everyone has already said it, but this is truly incredible.

I'll second felixmreeve's request for some kind of post-mortem, would be really interesting to read!

Thanks for the kind words, I have started writing a (long) post-mortem, and I will try to finish it and publish it in a few hours.
Making this game was quite a long journey.

Ok wow. This is cool. Really good gameplay too.

So when are you going to do a remake of Little Big Adventure with this engine?

Yes, I would love doing an homage to Little Big Adventure 2 ! It was so cool you could simply recompute the background from the camera whenever you wanted. This will fit the limitation of my engine, but it's quite a lot of work ...

Ok, I finished my post-mortem of Alone in Pico. If you have any questions or advices, you can post theme here :https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3804

That would be fantastic!

Just let me walk around citadel island on the pico 8 and that would be perfect!

This is by far the most impressive game i've ever seen in PICO-8, congrats!

ditto everything already said :D

NuSan, this is super impressive and inspiring. I'm amazed. Congratulations!

Yes, that's so impressive and a little bit humiliating ;) It took me (and 6 other persons) 2 years to achieve (almost) exactly the same result... 24 years ago!

@UrbanMonk not yet LBA, but there is Twinsen: DarkLBA pico-8

Even ZEP is impressed by this cart wow ò_ò

Gaaaaah! That ominous bench!!! This is really impressive. Nice work! Scares me each time I die.

Hey @NuSan I wanted to ask you if you would be willing to conduct an interview for Kill Screen :) I am a writer for them, my name is Mostafa Hossam and my email is [email protected]. hit me up if you're interested and want to sit down and talk about your wonderful creation ;)

This is the kind of game that really does the pico 8 justice. It's so technologically impressive and artistically inspired to cram all the atmosphere of this game into a console that could've come out ten years before Alone in the Dark was released on PC.

Wow, what an amazing port! Love it!!

easily one of the best ive every seen on this site. Excellent Work

This is wonderful great job

woahh

When you complete the game with the character Edward carnby... he'll become OHIO BOSS. when you press '' down arrow '' button with that character. he'll become MICHAEL JACKSON