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This is my very first game in Pico-8.

I made this game based on the original cave driver tutorial from Dylan Bennett on the fanzine Game Development with Pico-8.

This work have a bunch of features that i had in mind, thinking about how to make this a fun game. Also a little bit of hallowinish.

Features

  • Enemies
  • Collectible (coins)
  • Random effects
  • Animations
  • Title screen
  • Persistent Score

Collectibles

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Try to collect coins for increase your score!
But be carefull, every 5 coins you collect, you acquire an effect:
You can be heavy, boost your speed, or become a rainbow and destroy enemies.
You cannot acquire another effect if you are already altered, so, the 5 coins that you need starts to count when you become normal.

Score

Every 10 coins = 1point,
Every second survived = 1point,
Every enemy killed = 5 points
Your final is calulated by: Survive points * Coin points + 1 + Enemy points
So, all matters!

Enemies

This cave is haunted! you can found:

Awful spiders

[8x8]

These spiders hangs on top of the cave and crawl down to your doom!
You can pass through the spiderweb

Haunty ghosts

[8x8]

These ghastly puffballs floating around in sine-wave are nothing but mean! Try not touch them.

Music

Not now! I am learning how to make music yet.

P#136247 2023-10-22 19:55 ( Edited 2023-10-24 01:49)

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You did a really nice job with this! I love the coin and hazard additions, and the controls feel really solid and much less floaty than a lot of these kind of games. Well done!

P#136248 2023-10-22 20:05
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Nice flappy game! Great job on overall game feeling!

P#136266 2023-10-23 11:03

Thank you everyone for your warm comments!
Today i wondering about update the game.
My little brother gives feedback to me, askig to add skins to the game.
The ideas are:

  • Pterodactyl
  • Skullbat
  • Flying fish
  • Flying frog
  • Bat frog
  • Flying Chupacabra (the Mexican mythological creature)

And make those skins ulockables by score

Also, by feedback from a friend of me i made lanterns instead of coins, and also candlesticks(kind off haha, still learning pixelart)
I think any of this change fits more into the context of the game, and gives more "hallowen-vibes".
I'm wondering which one of these sprites looks better.

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Candlestick
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Lantern

I know, halloween is over at this point, but I still want to make more things on this little project until the next halloween.
What do you think? It's any feature you wanna see on the game?

P#136796 2023-11-02 13:20 ( Edited 2023-11-02 13:28)

Fun little game, got 224 as my highscore.

P#136918 2023-11-04 18:38

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