I don't know if this is just a quirk of how print does its job, but I've found that print statements with strings that begin with a "\n" newline character get cut off in the middle of the line.
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In this image, the lines who are cut off are formatted with a \n at the beginning
print("\nthird")
print("\nfourth")
print("\nfifth")
I'm in a bit of a hurry, will update with more later.
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This was one of the first things I did in Pico-8, seeing other people do small graphical art pieces and wanting to do it myself, I started looking at other peoples tweetcarts (probably from @guerragames, since I mentioned him in my original tweets about this) and began playing with sin and cos myself. It had been a while since trig class. I was rusty on how they worked and after some time re-learning how to make a circle I made this.
One thing I learned while playing around was what printing could do if you didn't clear the screen. I found this out while trying to print out a debug statement! The line feed creates a really interesting effect if you're playing with motion, and purposefully using empty prints to achieve this is not something I've seen many other people play with.
This is a Pico-8 doodle I made a while ago using only circles. I wanted it to be the first cart I published on the BBS because I love it so much. It might be one of my favorite things I've ever made.
I tried as closely as possible to follow the traditional tutorial of how to draw Kirby:
First you draw a circle,
Then you dot the eyes,
Add a great big smile
And presto, it's Kirby!
I have plans to add some animation to Kirby himself later on, but for now I just wanted to share him with everybody!
EDIT:
I forgot, but I actually was inspired to do this because of a tweet from @thekirbybot on twitter!
https://twitter.com/thekirbybot/status/1009457661405028352
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![](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/26354/kirby_2.gif)
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