https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=101077 <h1>Mini Survivors</h1> <p>My kids and I were loosely familiar with PICO-8 because of Celeste, and then when two of them got emulation-based handheld game systems they started dabbling. I've spent most of my life programming in a few ways but never actually made a finished game for someone else to play. But my kids and I started in early July 2024 and I figured it could be our summer project. It's our first PICO-8 game, in a pretty-well finished state, in just under a month.<br /> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=151947#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_minisurv-1.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=151947#p"> minisurv0.9</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=101077"> FreshFeeling</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=151947#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p>It shouldn't be a hard one to pick up and play. Z/O is used to toggle the music and make menu selections, and the rest of the game is played with arrow keys/control pad.</p> <p>Although a couple of my kids looked at and consulted on the code a bit their contributions were mostly ideation, with a bit of dabbling in sprites and sound design. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4jf4GbUsH1MwD1maxYjRQ">Wyldstar</a> did most of the sounds and a few sprites, and FlamingXP did several sprites.</p> <p>Resources used include several YouTube tutorials by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@spacecat88">SpaceCat</a> as primers, <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=49901">One-Off GFX</a> by Heracleum for the title screen, and bikibird's <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=43514">Denote</a> tool to convert a midi for the main music.</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=143384 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=143384 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:02:55 UTC <p>Throughout this month, I've been idly working on a first PICO-8 game with a bit of assistance from my three kids. There's a bit of a story as to where the inspiration came from but I'll spare the details for now.<br /> We've really enjoyed Vampire Survivors for a while and although I've seen a couple of games in this vein for PICO-8, I didn't see them right away and it's maybe a bit underrepresented, I thought? So we went with it. It's not meant to be a demake/adaptation or anything. Among other things, there's no attempt to implement &quot;waves&quot; of enemies.<br /> I think I've figured out everything I wanted to, pretty much, although some movement and targeting could probably be fixed somewhat. Future plans include implementing some form of upgrades/level-ups and pickups. Honestly, I'd like to get that part done in the next 3 days to say it was wrapped in a month.<br /> No particular point to this post right now other than sharing! But feedback is welcome.<br /> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=151858#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_minisurv-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=151858#p"> minisurv0.8</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=101077"> FreshFeeling</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=151858#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=143345 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=143345 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:52:10 UTC