I'm starting a tutorial on how to make your a Shmup in Pico-8 from scratch! It's for complete beginners.

The goal is to make a basic Shmup first and then slowly turn it into an AWESOME shmup!
New episodes on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I will use this thread to keep a list of the episodes and post significant progress. Let's gooooo!
Episode 2 - Moving Stuff
Episode 3 - Controls
Episode 4 - Shooting
Episode 5 - Animation
Episode 6 - Health UI
Episode 7 - Starfield
Episode 8 - Animating Stars
Episode 9 - Game Over
Episode 10 - More Bullets
Episode 11 - Enemies
Episode 12 - Collsions
Episode 13 - Invulnerability
Episode 14 - Explosions
Episode 15 - Better Explosions
Episode 16 - Shockwaves
Episode 17 - Music
Episode 18 - More Enemies
Episode 19 - Big Enemies
Episode 20 - Enemy Spawns
Episode 21 - Enemy Movement
Episode 22 - Enemy Attacks
Episode 23 - Enemy Bullets
Episode 24 - Spread Shots
Episode 25 - Aimed Shots
Episode 26 - Pickups
Episode 27 - Bombs
Episode 28 - Boss
Episode 29 - The End
Also annoucing the Lazy Devs Basic Shmup Showcase. If you participated in the tutorial you have one month to finish your game and submit it to the showcase. I pledge to play all of the submitted game and to discuss them in a dedicated video!

UPDATE: Continued in the Advanced Shmup Tutorial


You are amazing. Your videos are fun to watch and you're a great teacher. I am constantly recommending the Breakout series to people.
I'm going to try to start a Coding/Game Dev club at the school I (hopefully) will be teaching at next year, and I'm going to give them your vids to watch. Keep up the great work!


Cherry Bomb has been released!
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=48986



Announcing the Advanced Shmup Tutorial where we crank this up to 11
|https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=51847
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