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My post-apocalyptic shooter / party game Pocket Platoon is available on itch.io

Cart #pplatoon-0 | 2025-06-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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A party game for up to 4 buddies

This game features:

  • Local multiplayer for 4 players
  • 3 game modes (PvE, PvP and PvPvE)
  • Infinite random generated maps (3 different planes: Earth, Void and Ruins with 9 possible color schemes)
  • Pixel perfect terrain destruction
  • 2 power-ups (Med Kit and Weapon Box)
  • 2 traps (Land Mine and Acid Barrel)
  • 10 unique weapons
  • melee combat
  • techno squids

Controls

  • Player1 and Player2 can share a keyboard

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A simple terminal implementation for 251 tokens (I'm pretty sure you can find some clever ways to reduce this), for your dev tools.

Currently I'm working on some editors for my game, I had to implement mouse controls, buttons and layout. However I have missed a crucial part: text input.

I have looked inside the community wiki and found out how to read the keyboard buffer. I have made this simple terminal which I'm really satisfied with, and I thought maybe it is worth to share. Nothing fancy just a shell ready to interpret whatever command you type in and hit enter.

 
function new_terminal(text_color, bg_color, error_color)
  local t = {}
  t.history,
  t.buffer,
  t.t_col,
  t.bg_col,
  t.err_col,
  t.commands,
  t.append,
  t.render 
  = 
  {},
  "",
  text_color or 11,
  bg_color or 0,
  error_color or 8,
  { cls = function(_ENV) history = {} end },

  function(_ENV, str, err)
    for line in all(split(tostr(str), "\n")) do

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