Hey, that's my first game in Pico-8.
I know, it's not good but it incorporates many things and programming skills and tricks so it's an ugly, but still loved, first baby :-).
How to play
- Use arrows to move, X to select.
- Every 2 seconds money and red $ will appear, the more money you collect the more you are slowed down.
- You must put money you collect in the chest which will add them also to the timer.
- You can use chest money to power-up at the shop.
- Touching red $ will remove all coins in your hand and also lose 1 second.
You just need to survive the longest, no more, no less.
Enjoy!
Congratulations on your first game! I hope you make many more.
Its an interesting game concept, which needs a little bit of refining. I got well over 300 seconds and it seemed like I could continue indefinitely. Maybe the $ should become more punishing? Maybe they could float down the screen, or be attracted to the player?
Some simple fixes you should implement:
- there is a spelling mistake on "strength"
- Red $ should not appear on the chest.
- A coin appeared on the shop and it was impossible to collect.
- It would be nice that when a purchase is made in the shop, this is shown visibly. A simple solution would be highlighting / flashing text.
Hey @phil thank you for your feedback!
Yes, it really needs refining, I primarily followed some tutorials and in the end tried to implement things by myself without a complete vision till the end.
The spelling error is an obvious one 🤣,
my first language is not English and did not check the spelling.
The coins on chest and shop, yes, it's an issue.
I added a little sfx on buying on the shop but probably it's not enough as a feedback.
Btw I think I'll make some changes then go on my next project, which primarely I do for fun and to learn game development.
Still thank you for your feedback!!!
@qwertyad1 I think you reached maximum strenght.
Yes it's not obvious... Next version will fix this issues.
I also need to use VSCode because my eyes were bleeding while coding on the small (but cute) code editor of the Pico-8.
Thank you for trying the game!
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