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Battle Against a Rotund Ant

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 01:21:26 UTC

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Battle Against a Rotund Ant

by tesselode

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Earthbound-inspired battle music.

Kirby's Dream Land 3 - Ripple Field 2 cover

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 20:48:08 UTC

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Tetris Attack for Game Boy - music recreations

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:31:04 UTC

I've been recreating some tracks from the Game Boy version of Tetris Attack these past few days. I wonder what the story is behind these arrangements - they could have just transcribed the SNES versions and called it a day (like the unused arrangements in Pokemon Puzzle Challenge), but they went above and beyond and added something really memorable to each track. There's lots of interesting chord changes, and I find the arrangements to be generally really thoughtful and beautiful.

Transcribing someone's music is like climbing into their brain and seeing what's going on. Hopefully I can absorb the talent of these arrangers by osmosis.

More remakes to come...

Sarah and the Lonely Key

Sun, 04 Aug 2019 19:20:29 UTC

Sarah and the Lonely Key

by tesselode

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A short, Sokoban-style puzzle game with many doors, but only one key.

Made in 2 days for the 2019 GMTK Jam.

Picotune - 64x64 music player

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 06:27:22 UTC

Picotune 1.0

by tesselode

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Picotune is a cute, 64x64 music player for your local PICO-8 carts~

Usage

Place Picotune in your carts folder
Place other carts in your carts folder
Listen to your favorite tunes!

Tera: Mind Over Matter

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:36:33 UTC

Tera: Mind Over Matter 1.2

by tesselode

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Tera: Mind Over Matter 1.1

by tesselode

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Tera: Mind Over Matter 1.0

by tesselode

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About

Tera: Mind Over Matter is a modern puzzle action game about dropping blocks of different shapes to clear lines. The game has a rapid difficulty curve that emphasizes speed and accuracy. Get as many Teras as you can!

Controls

Left/right - shift pieces left and right
Down - soft drop
Up - hard drop (locking behavior can be changed in options)
Z/X - rotate pieces (direction can be changed in options)
Z+X - hold piece

Changelog

v1.2 | 3/5/19

Don't reset key repeat for left/right shift inputs when placing a Teramino

v1.1 | 2/17/19

Fixed incorrect spawn delay curve which caused pieces to stop spawning at high levels
Score display is no longer limited to 4 digits
Time display is now minutes:seconds

v1.0 | 2/7/19

Initial release

Source

Bootleg 24-in-1 multicart

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 01:18:26 UTC

24-in-1

by tesselode

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So I dug up this old bootleg PICO-8 multicart I had. I honestly can't remember where I got it. It says it has 24 games on it, but really it's more like 10 or so? A lot of the games are just the same ones repeated with different names, and a lot of the games aren't labelled correctly. Also, don't select the "Janitor Man" cart, it'll just display a bunch of garbage.

Web Pilot - Tempest-inspired tube shooter

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:53:34 UTC

Web Pilot 1.3

by tesselode

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Web Pilot 1.2

by tesselode

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Web Pilot 1.1

by tesselode

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Web Pilot 1.0

by tesselode

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Itch | GitHub

Greetings, PILOT. You have been assigned to travel to web ██-██ to pacify the creatures traveling through. I know you don't need an introduction to the web, but the players at home might.

Use LEFT and RIGHT to move.

Use Z to shoot and X to jump.

If you get caught by a creature, and your superzapper is charged up, press X to use it.

You can recharge your superzapper by collecting powerups.

You can get a point bonus if you kill enemies from far away, and you can get an even larger point bonus if you kill enemies while they're on the rim of the web.

Good luck, PILOT.

Changelog

v1.3 (8/31/18)

Make powerup multiplier display less distracting

v1.2 (8/25/18)

Player is immediately released when using the superzapper
Fix pre-game-over music continuing forever when resetting after getting dragged into the web
Make rim kills a little easier
Tweak point values for some enemies
Make powerup graphic more circular
Show current powerup multiplier in the bottom-left corner
Performance improvements

v1.1 (8/23/18)

Powerup point value no longer increases if you collect a powerup while jumping
Fixed a bug where if you got a high score, the results screen would report a high score after every game regardless of score until the game is reset
Performance improvements

v1.0 (8/15/18)

Initial release

Lena Raine - First Steps (PICO-8 cover)

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:17:00 UTC

Lena Raine - First Steps (PICO-8 cover)

by tesselode

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Now that Celeste has graduated from being a PICO-8 game to a full release, I thought it would be fun to backport the game's music to PICO-8. Here's a small cover of the chapter 1 theme.

Steam banners!

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 01:11:09 UTC

Because who doesn't want to have their PICO-8 games in a nice Steam grid?

I'll start off with a couple simple ones I made:

Celeste:

Dank Tomb:

Arc drawing function (124 tokens)

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 04:46:14 UTC

function arc(x, y, r, angle, c)
 if angle < 0 then return end
 for i = 0, .75, .25 do
  local a = angle
  if a < i then break end
  if a > i + .25 then a = i + .25 end
  local x1 = x + r * cos(i)
  local y1 = y + r * sin(i)
  local x2 = x + r * cos(a)
  local y2 = y + r * sin(a)
  local cx1 = min(x1, x2)
  local cx2 = max(x1, x2)
  local cy1 = min(y1, y2)
  local cy2 = max(y1, y2)
  clip(cx1, cy1, cx2 - cx1 + 2, cy2 - cy1 + 2)
  circ(x, y, r, c)
  clip()
 end
end

This function draws an arc by drawing a circle four times with different clipping regions.

Limitations:

Can't draw a filled arc (but you can change the circ to a circfill for an interesting effect!)
Can't set starting angle (but this would probably be easy to implement)

NETTY

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:41:14 UTC

NETTY 2.1

by tesselode

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NETTY 2.0

by tesselode

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NETTY 1.0

by tesselode

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So after a while of not making any games, PICO-8 has made me productive again! Here's a little arcade game called NETTY. Should be pretty easy to understand, but there's more detailed instructions on the itch page: https://tesselode.itch.io/netty

I'm planning on adding a couple things in future updates. Let me know what you think?