So... This started as an excercise to pico8 the "A Friend Like Me" song from the Disney movie Aladdin. Then I had the poor judgement to decide to make an animation to go with the song.
This turned out to be a very time consuming task, and I wasn't happy with what it looked like, so I lost the motivation to continue. So this cart has been on my disk for a while - waiting for the motivation to return - until I finally decided to release it in its current unfinished state.
I hope it still brings some joy to someone, and that it doesn't anger the Mouse.
As an excercise to better understand the music tool I made a "cover" of the song "Surviving" by Namnambulu. I say "cover" with quotation marks because I suppose it's more... uuuh... "inspired by" =)
Edit: The sound quality in the web player in Chrome is really bad for me. Either try another browser, or click that little "sfx" link under the player to copy the song into pico8 itself.
The enlisted have arrived! Properly trained! Will follow commands just as you tell them. No stupid ideas! The war will be won by following chain of command! Let's conquer that hill...
This is my third Pico-8 game, loosely inspired by Lemmings. You are in charge of guiding a squad of marines to capture and bring back the enemy flag. They will only do what you tell them, for better or worse...
This is a mouse cursor game, but you can also use the virtual mouse cursor with the keyboard controls. It is possible to finish all missions without losing a single marine, but that will require some precision maneuvering and luck.
My previous Pico-8 games are
Since the spritesheet and map share memory I got inspired to make a demo of how to use MSET to edit sprites in the sheet. Essentially I'm changing the bottom part of the map to edit the sprites that are located in page 3 of the sheet.
I'm sure this has been done before, so I did it mostly for my own entertainment. Feel free to copy this if you have a need for this kind of functionality!
(This is not a playable game.)
Cheers
// Jens
This is my first Pico-8 cartridge, hope you enjoy it! Took me approximately 24 hours effective time to make.
Title screen artwork was created by @jellocube (Matthew Shelley), much appreciated!
Picopolis is a SimCity demake / idle game in which you place roads, residental/industrial/commercial zoning, schools, police departments, hospitals, and various other things. The city will grow depending on housing, jobs, pollution, and crime ratings, and the bigger it gets the more money you make.
Cheers!
// Jens
Changes in 1.1:
- Fixed placing large buildings outside of the map
- Added "Established" date to the victory statue, kind of like a highscore
- Made large commercial zones develop just a tiny bit faster