Here's a cover I made of the main theme from God Hand (2006). There isn't MIDI or anything available AFAIK so I had to transcribe it by ear, and thus a few of the chords might not be 100% correct (I'm not a music theory person).
Interesting note: the song features several key changes. Take a look at the code and you'll see that this is being done dynamically by raising/lowering the pitch of the 8 custom instruments at certain points in the song. This allowed me to reuse a lot of patterns despite the three main sections being in different keys (I don't think I would have been able to fit everything into 64 patterns otherwise).
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Just some neat stuff I've figured out so far messing with the custom instruments feature in p8 v0.1.11.
Featuring: Claps, (swung!) hi-hats, record scratches, and some other weird stuff.
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Here's a cart containing all the music data from my recently released game "地獄・Hell", an entry into the "A Game By Its Cover 2017" jam on itch.io. The game itself was designed to run in (a slightly modified version of) picolove, and takes advantage of some of its nonstandard features, and thus I can't post the full cart here.
Interesting note: picolove's reimplementation of PICO-8's sound engine isn't perfect, so the sound ends up having a somewhat different character. In particular, the difference in the way the fast arpeggios behave (especially in track 26) is quite noticeable.
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Fight your way through the violence house and defeat the master of violence. Can you survive the violence? Warning: contains blood and violence.
This ended up evolving into my first real pico-8 game, even though it started as more of an experiment. It's basically a standard beat 'em up where you're trying to progress through a house filled with dudes who are trying to kill you. I think Splatterhouse was my main inspiration here, since it was the only real beat 'em up I played as a kid. Anyway, it's essentially feature-complete, but really poorly balanced and without a lot of polish. Not to mention short. But I learned a ton while writing it, and that's the important thing.
[b]Features:
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this came together pretty quick. it turns out it's hard to design good challenging sokoban puzzles, so most of these are relatively simple.
x to reset level.
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update 2: so i guess the bare skeleton of the flow of gameplay is implemented. right now the three opponent players just discard a tile at random after they draw. you might as well do that too, since I haven't yet begun the process of implementing any of the actual rules of mahjong. (I'm sitting at 3309/8192 tokens right now, but my code is pretty messy.)
[b]update:
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