Coder, diver and a maritime junkie.
Explore the underwater caverns. Get rich and spend on your vessel to go deeper.
What's Peral
- One upgradeable submarine
- Two hours of cave diving
- 12 different enemies to fight
- Many paths and hidden treasures
Peral is using the awesome music composed by Gruber.
Post your thoughts, please! And don't forget to back off occasionally, it makes a difference in dogfights.
Technical notes
This is my first finished game, and also an excercise to fit more interesting content in a cartridge than would seem possible at a glance. The menu sits on a separate cart alone and just passes the language pack on: theres no switching once the game starts.
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Hi guys,
thanks to pico's restrictions, I managed to finish my first-ever game, and I'm happy with the results.
However, I ended up using filthy trickstery to squeeze in as much content as possible, and as a result I ended up with a game needing several non-cartridge files to function. I'd like the feedback, but am not quite sure how to publish it on the forums. I could use some help with this.
The full game either #includes or load()s these files:
enemies.lua game.p8 leveldata.p8l peral.p8 shop.lua translations.lua |
Some of the files are generated by my editor, and others are just data kept outside the game for the sake of developer sanity.
How would I upload such a thing so that it would get embedded in a forum post? I could inline the #includes, but it will still need two carts, because the main cart is pushing both token and size limits (8142/8192 and 99.7 % respectively). And what's the proper way to link between same-game carts on the forums?
Oh, and here's a playable HTML export here proving that the concoction actually works.
