Beginner Game Designer working toward removing Beginner from my title. Found Pico-8 and loved it's style and decided to use it as a learning and prototyping tool.
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A small, experimental game I've been working on. Throwing it up for playtesting!
Update: 18/03/05
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Been working on this prototype and need some fresh eyes to see how it's coming along. This is a very bare-bones prototype, mostly a test to see how well the core mechanics work and feel.
Controls:
Start Moving
On Ground:Jump/Mid-air:Freeze&Aim/Frozen:Airdash
Shoot
Pass through blue platforms/Frozen:Unfreeze and Fall
All assets are simple placeholders and the levels are me working at making some tutorial stages. Please leave comments or fill out my feedback questionnaire. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for playing!
I created an implementation of a queue for the game I'm working on, and thought that it could be of use to someone else. And while I was at it, programmed a stack and double-ended queue implementations as well.
To make a queue, stack, or double-ended queue, call makequeue(), makestack(), or makedqueue() respectfully. These functions return the empty queue or stack and are ready to use.
For basic queues and stacks, any attempt to add a value to the table places it at the end of the table, no matter the key you assign to it. Doesn't matter if you use t[1]=val, t.key=val, or add(t,val), it all works the same. Use t.pop to get and remove the lead value; first inserted for queue, last inserted for stack. And t.peek lets you look at the next value without removing it. t[k] will allow you to look at the value at that position, but that's mostly there so foreach and count will work.
Double-ended queues work a bit differently. Adding a value will normally add to the end table as usual, but you can also add a value to the front by using t.push_front=val or t[0]=val. Access is handled with t.pop_front and t.pop_back, which pops from first-in and last-in respectfully, and use t.front and t.back to peek similarly.
Don't know if there's a more efficient way to code this, but this is what I've come up with.
queue={__index=function(t,k)
if k=="pop" and #t.tbl>0 then
local pop=t.tbl[1]
del(t.tbl,t.tbl[1])
return pop
elseif k=="peek" then
return t.tbl[1]
else
return t.tbl[k]
end
end,
__newindex=function(t,k,v)
t.tbl[#t.tbl+1]=v
end,
__len=function(t)
return #t.tbl
end}
function makequeue()
local q={tbl={}}
setmetatable(q,queue)
return q
end
stack={__index=function(t,k)
if k=="pop" and #t.tbl>0 then
local pop=t.tbl[#t.tbl]
del(t.tbl,t.tbl[#t.tbl])
return pop
elseif k=="peek" then
return t.tbl[#t.tbl]
else
return t.tbl[#t.tbl-k+1]
end
end,
__newindex=function(t,k,v)
t.tbl[#t.tbl+1]=v
end,
__len=function(t)
return #t.tbl
end}
function makestack()
local s={tbl={}}
setmetatable(s,stack)
return s
end
dqueue={__index=function(t,k)
if k=="pop_front" and #t.tbl>0 then
local pop=t.tbl[1]
del(t.tbl,t.tbl[1])
return pop
elseif k=="pop_back" and #t.tbl>0 then
local pop=t.tbl[#t.tbl]
del(t.tbl,t.tbl[#t.tbl])
return pop
elseif k=="back" then
return t.tbl[#t.tbl]
elseif k=="front" then
return t.tbl[1]
else
return t.tbl[k]
end
end,
__newindex=function(t,k,v)
if k=="push_front" or k==0 then
local ntbl={v}
foreach(t.tbl,function(nv)
add(ntbl,nv)
end)
t.tbl=ntbl
else
t.tbl[#t.tbl+1]=v
end
end,
__len=function(t)
return #t.tbl
end}
function makedqueue()
local dq={tbl={}}
setmetatable(dq,dqueue)
return dq
end
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Aggressive creatures have been wondering into your village. You volunteered to venture out to find where they're coming from. After a few days search you find yourself at the swamp that old legends warn of entering. With no other choice, you prepare to search the treacherous swamp.
First game I've publicly released, so probably isn't great but am still proud of it and was a great leaning experience! Am looking forward to creating more games in the future.
Don't read this unless you're having difficulty in battle. Did something kind of different and tried to made the first encounter a decent learning experience.
is advance, next attack does more damage up to a cap.
is circle, resets enemy advance bonuses.
is defend, reduces damage taken. Enemy defense counter attacks if no damage is done
is attack.
Please give feedback, will help me with learning game design!
Updates:
Sprites either taken from or edited from sheets made by Dan Norder, Spider Dave, and Denzi
Credit to Neale Davidson for title font.
