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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and, well...you'll see what happens.
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(this cart was made in a few hours on a tropical island)
When I started making this, I was inspired by two Italian things: pizza (not pictured) and the Cassini spacecraft.
~ this cart is designed to be played in a dark room with headphones on the night of a new moon ~
(tip for people unfamiliar with PICO-8 controls: the "O" button maps to the following keyboard keys: Z, C, or N)
KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG
KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG is the industry-leading fantasy defragmenter for the PICO-8.
Read what customers are saying about KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG:
> "It really looks like it's working!"
> "The rectangles were over there and there...but now they are all over there! Amazing!"
> "I can't stop watching. Please send help."
Let's see how the features in KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG stack up when compared with Other Leading Defragmenters:
KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG COMPETITORS Defrags FANTASY DISKS? ✓ | X Can be run over and over? ✓ | X Relaxing Music while you wait? ✓ | X Screensaver Mode? ✓ | X Inuitive One-Button Controls? ✓ | X |
User Experience First
Other leading defragmenters are designed with function first, giving only a passing thought to USER EXPERIENCE.
KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG is revolutionizing the industry by putting user experience first!
KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG is the only PICO-8 defragmenter designed for one sole purpose: to give you the luxuriously satisfying experience of watching a disk be defragmented.
WHAT DOES KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG DO?
- Removes 100% of fantasy fragments!
- Makes you feel like you are accomplishing actual work!
- Meticulously rearranges each file's fragments into a contiguous and sequential mass, leaving your computer—and you!—feeling whole, complete, and at peace!
Never Stops Working
Other leading defragmenters can also defragment, but once they finish running, your files are stuck there at the beginning of the drive, forcing you to wait hours, days, or even weeks until your disk is fragmented enough to defragment again to satisfying results.
Unlike other leading defragmenters which cease to provide the user with an entertaining display of ambulating rectangles once they have finished, KITTENM4STERSOFT DEFRAG creates a new FANTASY DISK each time it is run!
Menu Options
Open the PICO-8 menu (on keyboard, press RETURN or P) to access the following two optional modes:
RELAXING MUSIC
Enjoy the latest in popular music, perfectly paired with the enticing visuals to enhance your meditative experience. DEFRAGMENT YOUR MIND, BODY, AND SOUL!
SCREENSAVER MODE
Activate SCREENSAVER MODE to disable pesky dialog boxes, enabling you to sit back and enjoy an endless supply of fresh fantasy disks get defragmented with no user interaction required!
I recently made a program that can translate (some) MIDIs to PICO-8 tracker format and I thought I'd also make a fun visualizer to show it off :)
The music you see (and hear) above is J.S. Bach's Sinfonia 15 in B minor (BWV 801). It was translated from a MIDI file (that I found on the internet somewhere) into PICO-8 tracker format by the aforementioned tool:
https://github.com/andmatand/midi-to-pico8
This visualizer takes a simple approach of displaying whatever notes it sees are currently playing each frame (if any notes changed) so it may skip notes if the notes ever change faster than the FPS (this cart runs at 60). A more robust visualizer could be written, but I just wanted something that could display most normal songs for fun :)
You can use this visualizer to display your own music by downloading this cart and uncommenting one or both of these lines in the _init() function (and changing the path string appropriately):
-- load the music and sfx data from another cart --reload(0x3100, 0x3100, 0x1200, 'othercart.p8.png') -- permanently store the music and sfx data loaded above --cstore(0x3100, 0x3100, 0x1200) |
I hope you enjoy watching the little notes go by. I enjoy Bach's keyboard music and much of it also happens to translate very easily to PICO-8 tracker format :)
this is just your standard fish painter game, but no one had done one for pico-8 yet, so
you are a raincloud!
my wife and I made this together.
Standard 9/6 Jacks or Better video poker
Controls should hopefully be straightforward (directional buttons and primary action button, e.g. Z), with the following notes:
-Press up to scroll up to the pay table above the play area.
-Secret quick-draw feature: After holding, you may press the secondary action button (e.g. X) to instantly "draw"
Note: This game makes use of audio/video synchronization (particularly in the intro) that seems to not work very well on the web version (on my computer at least; maybe you will have better results) and it looks/sounds way better if you run it in the native PICO-8 client.
Good luck :)
EDIT 2015-06-11: Updated for PICO-8 0.1.1 compatibility
EDIT 2017-06-16: Fixed coin-count display bug, adjusted several sfx volumes to avoid distortion
EDIT 2018-04-10: Added support for some things that did not exist in PICO-8 when I first made this: saving to cartdata (and "cash out" menu option to reset), button glyph on title screen
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