Help Lefty munch all of the tomatoes, but don't get squashed!
Z or C to jump. It is easy to get stuck ~ press ENTER to retry a room via the pause menu. Push items around by walking into them or by jumping on them from a decent height.
Made for #pico1k 2025 in 1024 bytes (thanks Liquidream & Shrinko-8!)
All PICO-1k entries at itch: https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2025/entries
I used a lot of one-off character printing to get both the gfx and map data to fit into a single print statement that compresses to 360 bytes. Each 8x8 room quadrant is encoded as two P8SCII \^. commands: one for the walls (using \^o to get a different colour for floors) and one for either tomatoes OR pink blocks. A lot of repetition and hand-crafted P8SCII shuffling was used to allow the code compression to kick in.
Here are some gifs showing repetition in the room data, and also the print() statement in action using different sub() lengths to show the different layers (which is why there is sometimes junk at the end when \^. data is cropped short and spills out).
I beat it! I got stuck on 5 and 6 for a while but figured it out eventually.
Once again you pull off the impossible and make it very engaging as well.
I especially love the fact that the objective is tied to your friend succeeding at their goal, and that the 'protagonist' is helping them along. I'm also intrigued by their relationship, considering one helps feed the other but is at constant danger to be squashed by them!
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Man, that was super fun.
It's amazing how much fun one can squeeze out of something so simple.
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