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Star Anise Chronicles: Oh No Wheres Twig??

by eevee

Cart #anise_wheres_twig-2 | 2022-05-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Please help Star Anise find his best friend in the whole world!

I haven't touched PICO-8 in ages, and I thought it was about time I changed that. Love the recent additions.

Cranked this out in... twelve days, I think? With three tokens and zero compressed bytes to spare. Phew!

edit: Now there's a speedrun version.

Amazing.

Very good! The various mechanics and progression is really interesting.

Not sure to fully grasp the lore but the universe feels consistent.
Congrats!

I like it!
The Metroid stile is cool
How do you use items?

i seem to be totally stuck after the pizza guy - cant get to the character to remove blue blocks - any clues ? been through all the doors multiple times but theres some i cant reach and need 3 keys for gold doors...

Looks absolutely lovely! ^_^

Thanks everyone!

@ExtrovertPlatypus, just press X!

@bigjus, have you spoken to Purrl at all?

This is a lovely game! The art style and character dialog are incredibly cute.

i missed two glasses to pap and 1 star

@bigjus roar at purrl

or at morsel, both work

A Twitter follower has been speedrunning the game, so I was inspired to make a speedrun version:

Star Anise Chronicles: Oh No Wheres Twig??: Speedrun Edition

by eevee

Cart #anise_wheres_twig_speedrun-4 | 2020-05-17 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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PLEASE play the original game first! This one is missing the entire ending (for token reasons) which kinda ruins the experience.

The game should otherwise play identically; I haven't touched anything except the title screen, ending, and drawing a timing overlay. I even found a bug and didn't fix it!

Notes:

• Most of the times are in frames, sorry.
• The timer will definitely overflow after about 18 minutes, so, try to be faster than that?
• The game remembers your previous run, your best overall run, and your best times on individual segments. You get a summary at the end of the run. If you 100%ed the game, it also shows a star.
• The second row at the top of the screen shows your current time for the last segment (in gold if it's your best time on that segment), then your time for that segment from your best overall run, and the difference.
• Pressing LEFT and RIGHT simultaneously on the title screen will clear all your recorded times with no warning whatsoever.
• If you download the cartridge, there are some TAS tools built in as well; check out code tab 5.

See if you can beat my best time of 3:37.5!

i made an account just to tell you how much i enjoyed your game. exploring the world you set up was a treat. each luneko was so cute and you were able to impart so much personality with such brevity of words and interactions.

i adore this. your game helped ease my mind for a short time with everything going on in the world. you've left me full of wonder and smiling. many thanks again!

I MISSED ONE MILK

Really wonderful, thank you eevee! Non-violent non-adversarial with cat mischief and meows.

I missed one milk and one star, im so sad

i wish you would have commented throughout your coding...this is exactly the kinda game i wanna learn how to make. but i dont know what youre doing in any of it and im just learning. this is far from a basic game so learning the basics doesnt help me understand this advanced stuff...

@picoternoob Ah, sorry; I genuinely didn't have any space left for comments :( Would you be interested if I wrote up how I made this game, from nothing to its final state? I made a lot of backup copies, so I think I could reconstruct it, and it's something I've been interested in doing for a while anyway.

I am stuck too after getting the pizza!
I can’t jump high enough to get on top of the tree one screen left of the pizza table, and can’t go back through the sequence of doors because of the one-way semi-solid platforms. Any hint?

@merwok you can go back through the cave! there's a shortcut that lets you skip it all when going the other way

Thank you I didn’t see the semi-solid platform in the middle of the wall!

I just revisted it and was looking at the sfx to see how it was done and Music(0) caught me by surprize! Is this a hint that you got totakka to do the sfx? :thinking:
Reguardless still a great game!

haha, just an easter egg in appreciation of his work! hope he doesn't mind

:thumbsup:

Wow, this was SUPER fun. I managed to finish it after a bunch of wandering around because of the soot puzzle. Thanks for making this. One of the BEST PICO-8 games!

This is seriously a great game. The soot puzzle was great. The little power selector thingy gave away that I was going to end up collecting more items and abilities so I knew the second I found the jump thing I was in for a metroidesque back track through the level and find places I couldn't reach before experience

So I didn't understand what changed Purrl's mind, but she let me through. Wonderful game, space cats ftw. Thank you!

The teleport side-to-side ability is super fresh. Very cool.

how come purrl just doesn't react sometimes when you talk to her from behind?

I love this game! The characters has it's own personalities, creativity is all in this world. Thank you.

What will happen if you'll fall in ending using TELEPAWT?

Also, for people who can't talk normally with Purrl (SPOILERRRS!!):

FURRY METROID

FURRY METROID

But for real tho, this is a great game. Loved the non-euclidean mechanics. I should try making a map of it...

The canonical map I have is a horrible mess, so good luck :)

I'm having a thing where half the dialog lines display, then vanish instantly except for the first character. Kinda sucks since there's clearly a lot going on in the dialog :( Any idea what's up with that? I'm playing via Chrome if that makes a difference.

@PhasmaFelis oh dear, it looks like something changed in a recent PICO-8 release and bits of the cart are broken now. (the title screen animation isn't quite right, either.)

i have no idea what it could be offhand, but in the meantime you can play it on itch, where the player will always be the version i exported it with:

https://eevee.itch.io/anise-wheres-twig

@eevee Awesome, thanks!

dialogue is fixed now, sorry about that! now that i've seen the issue, i'm not sure how it ever worked :)

This was so cute, thank you!

Pico 8 just updated to version 2.5e Even the title screen was buggy

oh dear. something has changed rather drastically. unfortunately there's not even a changelog for 0.2.5e yet...

it’s really 0.2.5d that changed the parser and preprocessor: https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_changelog.txt

0.2.5e got out after one day to fix loading issue with lower/upper case

Yes, sadly it looks like this won't run on 0.2.5e on the BBS right now :( But the itch.io link works, so thanks eevee!

thanks @binarycrusader for suggesting the itch link.
i wanted to ask how to start the game, because the BBS version's title sequence not starting made ❎ and 🅾️ not work for starting the game

Will pico-8 release version 0.2.6c

Just finished this with 0.2.5c which worked purrfectly ;) Thanks again @eevee for a great little game!