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tiny terrarium

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:53:29 UTC

tiny terrarium

by helado

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this is a falling sand game! it's essentially a remake of one i've posted before, but completely rewritten to be performant with the latest version of pico-8. it also has a lot more features. feel free to experiment! it's also posted on itch and you can find its source code, which is released to the public domain, on github.

controls

on the simulation screen:

⬅️➡️⬆️⬇️: move
🅾️: draw
❎: erase
Pause: options

on the options screen:

⬆️⬇️: move between options
⬅️➡️: change option
🅾️❎: return to simulation
Pause: pico-8 menu

bbs music player broken?

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:56:09 UTC

i'm not managing to get the music player to play music, and all the controls also seem to be doing nothing. see this post for an example:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=43733

i also checked with more recent posts that use the music player. i tried both latest firefox and chromium on linux mint 20.3. i don't have the tab muted, and other applications as well as other sites and the cart player still play sound

#include doesn't properly handle crlf

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:08:54 UTC

i've been running into some strange errors involving a project using #include while running it on windows instead of my usual linux environment. i've isolated the problem to line ending convention: an external file that uses the windows CrLf convention, but is otherwise the same as a file that works with no problems, will cause errors. here is the text of the external file i used:

local function _draw()
    cls(1)
end

to see the problem, save this with an external text editor using windows line ending convention (wordpad works, as do many programmer text editors) and use #include to include it in a cart.

spaces mess up tab completion

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:39:54 UTC

for example, when i have these files in my working directory:

tiny terrarium.lua
tiny terrarium.p8

and i enter "load t" and then press tab, it completes to "load tiny terrarium.", as it should, but then even if i type "p" and then press tab, it will not complete to "load tiny terrarium.p8". i tested various variations of partial entries of the file names, and they seem to work as long as the space hasn't been entered yet, and fail as long as it has been.

(also, inline code snippets on the bbs don't seem to work as advertised? i couldn't get them to format this post properly. they insisted on making full code blocks every time)

manual doesn't seem to indicate shortcut key for fps counter

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 20:39:18 UTC

i somehow accidentally turned on an fps counter and thought the manual would say how to turn it back off, but it doesn't seem to. it would be nice if the manual documented this and any other potentially undocumented shortcuts

(i managed to get it to turn off by closing and relaunching pico-8)

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 06:46:00 UTC

i just redownloaded voxatron after hearing about the latest update, but now i get this error message logged to the console on startup:

vox: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by vox)

it seems like it's asking me to update a core system file, but my packages are up to date and for unrelated reasons it's impractical for me to change os or os version. i'm using linux mint 18.

is there anything else that can be done?

Paper Dalsei: Fluffy Fashion

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 01:31:48 UTC

Paper Dalsei: Fluffy Fashion

by helado

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this is a deltarune paper doll fangame made by me and my brother, CrossroadsWanderer ( @XroadsWanderer)! we started out making a paper doll game unrelated to deltarune, but when we played deltarune together, we became enamored with ralsei, and decided to make it a ralsei dressup game instead. we made this for ourselves, but i hope others will find it enjoyable!

controls

z/okay: wear
x/cancel: take off
left and right: scroll through items
some options are found on the enter/pause menu

credits

the designs of ralsei and his default outfit are from deltarune
the designs of the hidden items are from deltarune and undertale
the music composition, "friendship" (which can be found on bandcamp), is from deltarune

everything else was done by us. this includes:

game design
pixel art (including our renditions of the aforementioned preexisting designs)
coding
music arrangement

edit on june 28 2021: fixed a wrong note in the bgm (it's about time i remembered to upload this XD)

edit on february 5 2022: content update! plus we did a couple of qol and bugfixes. enjoy!

per-sprite palette swap + day/night cycle

Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:09:56 UTC

i'm trying to allow players to choose between two different versions of the same sprite without having both on the sprite sheet. at the same time, my game has a day/night cycle that modifies colors as seen in this gif:

i want to largely work out the how for myself, at least at first for the sake of learning, but first wanted to check that i'm not missing something:

is it possible to have both these per-sprite palette swaps and the day/night swaps just with appropriately placed pal calls, or would i need to do something a little more manual?

i'm aware of the difference between remap-on-draw and remap-on-display; also note that there's ui whose colors must not change with the time palette, which would seem to rule out using remap-on-display, unless i'm just missing something.

edit: just to clarify, please do not post full solutions. i'm okay with hints in the form of nudges in the right direction though.

tiny terrarium: jam edition

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:22:34 UTC

this is my submission for GAMES MADE QUICK???. it also has an itch.io page. here is the description quoted from there:

"hi. this is a toy i made. it has no real ending, but feel free to try speedrunning it anyway if you wish.

as there's no sound, please provide your own ambience, relaxing or otherwise.

you may encounter bugs. the bugs are intentional and cannot be destroyed. good luck."

tiny terrarium: jam edition

by helado

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tiny terrarium: jam edition preview

Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:36:59 UTC

i thought i'd give an early preview of the falling sand game i'm working on:

tiny terrarium: jam edition preview

by helado

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there's not much to it yet; the only kinds of particles are air, soil, and sand, but i plan to add more and also have some more optimizations in mind. it took some work and a bit of luck to get to this point :)

controls

(while not holding o)
up/down/left/right: move cursor
x: place atom

(while holding o)
up/down: select setting
left/right: change setting

edit: shoot, does this web player also have bugs re: _update60? i'll try to alter the cart to make it work

edit: okay, seems fixed

why _init?

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:36:21 UTC

is there a non-stylistic reason that it's useful to define _init? i haven't been able to discern any practical difference between defining things in _init and defining things outside of _init other than that the former gives you slightly more flexibility in ordering your source code.

bug report: pasting doesn't preserve button glyphs

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:01:26 UTC

copying or cutting a line that contains a button glyph, then pasting it, will result in spaces in place of the glyph.

bbs: please use unicode encoding

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:22:36 UTC

certain characters are not rendered correctly, such as × (multiplication cross), áéíóú (accented vowels), and quite probably others.

i checked the bbs's html and didn't see it declaring an encoding. this might be solvable with a simple <meta charset="utf-8"> although i'm not sure if anything else is awry.