Hello all.
I'm brand new to all things Pico 8, having dabbled with programming since the 80s.
I'm having LOTS of problems though.

I added particles to my platform player.
I saw a tutorial about adding objects and function within them, so I tried to change my particle system.
It broke. The error says: Unclosed { but I can't find where I've gone wrong.
I apologise if this isn't how to post code on this.
Can someone help out, please. (This is trimmed down in the hope I don't over stay my welcome!)

function _init()
....
particle={}
end

function add_new_particle(x,y,die,dx,dy,grav,grow,shrink,r,c_table)
add(particle,{
x=x,
y=y,
t=0,
die=die,
dx=dx,
dy=dy,
grav=grav,
grow=grow,
shrink=shrink,
r=r,
c=0,
c_table=c_table

    draw=function(self)
     if self.r<=1 then
      pset(self.x,self.y,self.c)
     else
      circfill(self.x,self.y,self.r,self.c)
     end
    end,

    update=function(self)
     self.x+=self.dx
     self.y+=self.dy
      if self.grav then self.dy+=.5 end
      if self.grow then self.r+=.1 end
      if self.shrink then self.r-=.2 end
     self.t+=1

      if self.t>self.die then del(particle,self) end

        if self.t/self.die < 1/#self.c_table then   
         self.c=self.c_table[1]
        elseif self.t/self.die < 2/#self.c_table then
         self.c=self.c_table[2]
        elseif self.t/self.die < 3/#self.c_table then
         self.c=self.c_table[3]
        else
         self.c=self.c_table[4]
        end
    end
})
end

function dust()
  add_new_particle(plyr.x,plyr.y,10+rnd(7),rnd(2)-1,rnd(.3)-.4,false,true,true,3,{4,4,5,5})
end

 function runs()
  add_new_particle(plyr.x,plyr.y,10+rnd(7),rnd(2)-1,rnd(1)-0.5,false,false,true,2,{4,4,5,5})
 end

When the player lands on a platform, I have this: But it doesn't get this far.
dust()
sfx(0)

I haven't even figured what to put in the _draw function yet.

I hope this isn't too much to see what I'm trying to do and makes a bit of sense to someone.
Thanks for your time.
Peej

Holy heck...
Don't tell me I just missed the comma at:
c_table=c_table

Heads up: you can insert code blocks by having three backticks ("```") alone on a line, then your code, and then another three alone on a line. It'll format exactly as typed and in monospaced font, rather than the BBS formatting it however it pleases.

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