Pyras v0.2

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Pyras v0.2

by djib

Cart #pyras-2 | 2021-12-26 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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You're chased by piranhas and need to escape.

A very basic version of a game my father developed on a Thomson TO9, back when I was a kid.

It's my first go at a game on the PICO-8. I accidentally fist came across that fantasy console last week and absolutely felt in love with.

The game works better on a big screen as you character (green dot) and the piranhas (red dots) are way too small to view on smaller screens.

I need to play around within the constraints of the PICO-8 to find a way to have bigger items while still allowing to have a few hundred piranhas to deal with. Maybe some kind of zoomed and cropped version of the game.

Anyway, “release early, release often”. Any feedback will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Very addicting, looking forward to updates. It starts to speed up towards the end, is that intentional, or is it because there's less dots and can cause it process faster?

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

The game speedup is intentional. On our old computer it was definitely a performance issue. I re-implemented it in the PICO-8 by having the computer "wait" for a specific number of frames.

You can adjust how it works in the third tab of the code.

• Line 4: slowdown=0.15. The game will slow down by one frame every 6.6 piranhas or so (since 1/0.15=6.6).
• Line 25: if game.tick>min(20,game.slowdown*#pyras) then means that the game should not wait for more than 20 frames. I tried other values and 30 (1 second) felt too slow. Maybe there could be an easy mode with that value.

Having the end-game faster feels right to me otherwise it gets boring.
When there are more piranhas on the screen, I definitely need more time to react.

cool gameplay, I like the minimalist style of it. Maybe you can have new enemy behavior when you pass level? or some bigger dot?

I hope to see a better game made from this, the lag is real, but the game is fun.

Thank you both.

@jjjbon, I intend to add obstacles, bonuses and stuff. I never thought about creating other enemies but that's an interesting idea. My next step is to try making bigger dots or sprites, even if that means cropping part of the game area.

@JackJack3136, I'll make it so that you can configure the game speed.

Hello,

I just uploaded a new version where you can set the size of every character in the game, from 1×1 pixel to 4×4 pixels.

I also tweaked the game speed.

@djib, could you please reupload your game. There was a server crash. Thanks !

Hello, I just did. Sorry for the delay, I was away last week.