Here's my PICO-8 tribute to my favourite end-of-game music, "Still Alive" from Portal.
I also replaced the original credits with some shout-outs to the PICO-8 community! ;o)
Hope you like it and don't forget: the cake is a lie!
(P.S. - The original game music was done by Jonathan Coulton)
References used:


( ^_^) and then I saw my nick in there ヽ(´▽`)/
and, really, thanks for the wake-up call, might be YEARS since I pulled a portal gun trigger! where's my steam shortcut again?


Thank you, very GLaD you liked it - 'twas fun to make! :D
(Sorry Felice/PixelCod - knew I'd forget some ppl, I'm sure there are plenty others as well, D'Oh!)
Ageed, while the BBS has kinda slowed a bit, the overall PICO-8 community remains strong and awesome. So, I wanted to give a little something back!
Stay awesome everyone! now where's that cake :D


:D :D :D :D
(I proper belly-laughed at this - PERFECT!)


amazing, too bad I'm not in it, but good job anyway, I love that song


I always thought for some reason that one of the Turrets was singing this song. Now as I read into the lyrics more, I think it's actually Glad0s singing... hmm.


aw thanks for the shout-out, pico-8 pal! :>


Indeed, it's GLaDOS. That's really what makes the song for me. It's touching and frightening at the same time.
People who have played Portal 2 may not know this about the so-called Turret Opera, because it's not sung in English, but the lyrics are very meaningful and reveal an important element of the story. I won't say anything here, because spoilers, but for those who are done with Portal 2, it's well worth looking up a translation + explanation.


Thanks again all, much appreciated :o)
(again - sorry for those I missed)
@DerpsMcPineapple:
Yup, what @Felice said - couldn't have said it better myself! ;o)
I still wish I could've had mixed case in the lyrics, because one of my favourite lines is:
- "But I'm GLaD I got burned,"
...and it's just perfect coming from her. :o)


You can if you edit the .p8 externally, though everything's inverted - capitals will print in lowercase. Just don't save the .p8 in pico-8 afterwards, or it'll revert everything to lowercase again. exporting html/pngs will (should?) keep those changes though.


Oh right, I forgot this doesn't use the default font. Please ignore me.


It actually is using the default font. It's just converting all characters to their smallcaps version before calling print(). You can see this in the innermost loop at the bottom of the source code. It's a clever way to fit more text vertically.


Felice et al.:
Correct. I'm using a helpful "smallcaps" routine (that someone else made - alas I forget who), coz I used it previously in SCUMM-8 and thought it looked cooler.
The fact that it also meant I could then squeeze more verse lines in (being about 3 pixels smaller in height than "regular" case) was a juicy bonus! :D
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