Demake in progress of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, one of my favorite games of all time.
This uses twin-stick shooter input conventions, and I strongly recommend playing it with a dual-analog gamepad using Pinput, either with the native desktop PICO-8 player and a native Pinput build, or using the Firefox or Chrome extensions for Pinput to play it here on the BBS website.
However, you can now also play with two alternate schemes other than Pinput's analog gamepad support. The game will ask you at startup and save your input preferences, but you can always change it from the pause menu.
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Pinput gamepad tester cartridge. This won't do anything useful without Pinput, either if you download and run it locally, or if you install the Firefox or Chrome extensions for Pinput to play it here on the BBS website.
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Ever wish PICO-8 had dual analog stick support? Me too, so I wrote Pinput. Pinput is a Lua library and suite of external helper apps to provide XInput-like gamepad support to PICO-8, without requiring binary patching. The library and helpers use the GPIO area of cartridge RAM to communicate, making Pinput a sort of virtual peripheral plugged into an imaginary expansion port. (The P8T Twitter client uses GPIO the same way.)
You can try it now if you have a gamepad that works with your browser. (You may want to test it first with this gamepad test page.)
Demo video:
What do you get?
- Up to 8 players
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