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This is the second game my 3-years-old son and I did together.

It started as something simple. A car which moves around. A police car? No, a regular car.

Then we added coins. And made the car pick them! Interactivity! Randomness!

Then we needed a monster. So of course Covid-19 makes an appearance as the bad guy. You "kill it" with the car (which conveniently uses the same code as the coins).

Although to more experienced players the game might feel like it needs some kind of "success screen", my son doesn't seem to miss it at all.

It was also the first time we used the sound editor. Bruno is way too impatient, and I am too inexperienced, to create a whole song for a game just yet.

Fun facts:

  • There's exactly 10 instances of the virus because that's the biggest number Bruno is able to count up to so far (reliably).
  • There's exactly 51 coins because "51" is the number Bruno uses when he wants "a very big number".

Controls: arrows to move.

Cart #carcoinscovid-0 | 2020-07-02 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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I was not yet familiar with pico-8's add, del, and foreach so the first version of this had a lot of duplicated code and it was a bit of a mess (try coding next to a 3-year old child to see what I mean!). I cleaned it up before posting.

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