A simple little game that fits in a single tweet, coming in at 271 characters. For the itch.io #TweetTweetJam (which actually allowed two tweets' worth of characters but what the hell, eh?).
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Hi there,
Someone posted somewhere (here, the Slack channel, Twitter - who knows!) a single animated gif showing PICO-8 or PICO-8-like graphics demonstrating how to code jump and bounce physics. It covered speed and acceleration, the jump "arc", and as the ball moved showed the real values of variables.
I didn't dream this, did I?
Anyone have a copy or a link to it? I don't seem to be able to find the key search terms to get something useful from Google!
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Does anyone know of a routine that lets you have a screen that's, say, 256x256, but scaled to fit the normal 128x128? I know it'll look pretty poor, but that won't matter for what I have in mind.
So I can pretend the screen is bigger than it is, then it's just magically squashed to fit.
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(See WIP thread here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29464)
Well, it's done. I can already see ways to improve it, but the idea was more "can I make an invaders clone?", and I think I've shown that yes, yes I can.
I've learned a lot here. How to fling a million sprites around at once. Sound effects. Using tables in tables in tables to create level layouts. I used shortcuts (asset reuse) of course, but ultimately I've made a playable, if pretty simple, game.
Oh, and there's a Super Secret (not really - look at the code) cheat mode that gives you an extra life and reduces the fire rate of the catvaders. You might need it because the game is a bit hard. Too hard for me, anyway!
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Sound effects. All the terrible blips and bloops and crashes. No, the noise sort of crashes. Although potentially the other sort too.
I think I might need to fiddle with the difficulty though, as I can't get past level 5 now.
And catufos are in!
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Working on a game with a scrolling overworld, with collisions. Not sure yet what it will become, so basics for now.
v0.20 (2016/12/13):
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My first PICO-8 thing! Please be gentle as you rip my coding skills to shreds.
Yes, I know it isn't a proper game, that's the "joke" :) For more information on the game's origins, you can see here.
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