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Demo effect number 3 - 73 characters

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:47:32 UTC

MIGHT CAUSE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES

nicedemoeffect3

by LazarevGaming

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Color version of my other demo effect - 73 characters

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:38:41 UTC

MIGHT CAUSE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES
This is similar to my first demo effect but this time it's in color

nicedemoeffect2

by LazarevGaming

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Nice-looking demo effect - 75 characters

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:41:05 UTC

MIGHT CAUSE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES
The speed of this animation can be altered by changing the value contents inside the sine are multiplied by.

nicedemoeffect

by LazarevGaming

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Old Spider Web Demo

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:02:55 UTC

spiderweb

by LazarevGaming

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This is an unfinished project I used to work on a few months ago.
It includes a randomly-generating spider web.
Technical details:
Dots are placed randomly and they only connect with eachother when
they are <=(a certain distance) away.
The web doesn't lag pico-8 too much because it only gets generated
on the first frame and It's then stored in the extended memory and
redrawn from there every frame afterwards.

SCM OS fake bios

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:04:30 UTC

scmbios

by LazarevGaming

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I am planning on making a game where you try to discourage a
cold war era computer that's gone rogue from launching an ICBM

The following cart showcases the fake bios I made for it.
Changing colors is now possible by using arrow keys.
Please give feedback so I can improve this "bios"

Tractor Madness

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:41:20 UTC

Tractor Madness is a game where you yeet paintings at people while dodging helicopter missiles all while driving a tractor
Since that is a lot to take in, I've made a simple list of the things the game has
Game features:
Tractor physics
Bob
Bob lying on the ground
Paintings
Secret codes for more content
And much more!!

tractor

by LazarevGaming

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Green tractor is real 2401

Castle Blitz

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:03:56 UTC

blitz

by LazarevGaming

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This is my last pico-8 cart for some time.
This game was meant to have a lot more content but it was cut just so the game would be released today.
Development hell is horrible!!
Don't expect much from this game.

PICO-Bird

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:20:22 UTC

picobird

by LazarevGaming

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PICO-Bird is a flappy bird clone made in pico-8 in less than 512 characters
It was made for the following game jam
https://laz256.itch.io/pico-bird
All the code can be viewed on this page
https://itch.io/jam/pico-8-512-char-jam/rate/1578074

Racing in 130 characters

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:11:05 UTC

race

by LazarevGaming

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I was practicing extreme optimization and came up with this cart
There's not a lot to see here but what matters is that it works

Edit:The original took up 182 characters, this new version takes up only 176 characters

Edit2:Thanks to @p01, the new version takes up 133 characters. Unfortunately, not all the techniques
could be implemented without problems as racer 5 was the only one that could win in your code

Edit3:I was able to make the cart smaller by 3 characters which is not that bad

Tiny-Town: Town management game

Thu, 26 May 2022 17:21:00 UTC

Tiny Town is a game made in pico-8. It's based around another game called "Batch Town" which was made entirely in batch. https://general-nut.itch.io/batchtown

It was made for the "One Game a Month #12" jam on itch.io which can be found here.
https://itch.io/jam/one-game-a-month-12

Controls:
Up and down arrow keys to choose jobs
Right and left arrow keys to assign people

tinytown

by LazarevGaming

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Changelog:
Version 1.01: added level 9 town

Vec-Rhytm

Fri, 13 May 2022 08:46:28 UTC

Vec-Rhytm is a game similar to vib-ribbon. Your goal is to dodge
the obstacles that appear as the music is playing.
There are only 2 songs. This is more of a tech demo than a real game,
I wanted to see if drawing lots of triangles would be viable, It was!

vecrhytm

by LazarevGaming

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The music titled "Into the belt" was taken from Pico-8 Tunes Vol.2
which can be found here
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=62911

1-Bit sprite compression algorithm

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:17:34 UTC

I've made an algorithm that allows you to store 4 1-bit sprites in the space of a normal pico-8 sprite.
This version uses up the cpu a lot less compared to the previous which used pset().
It could be a little hard to use so there's some help on the bottom of this page.
Special thanks to Heracleum#1208 on discord for helping with the code.

onebitspritesalgorithm

by LazarevGaming

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Documentation:
Use 4x more sprite memory if your sprites are 1-bit
16 colors / 2 colors
1 sprite / 4 sprites
256 sprites / 1024 sprites
To draw your sprites, you'll have to use specific colors
Each color marks different sprites from 1-4, some of them mark more at once:
Pixel color in spritesheet/which sprites will be marked by color in that spot
0/none
1/1
2/2
3/3
4/4
5/1,2
6/1,3
7/1,4
8/2,3
9/2,4
10/3,4
11/2,3,4
12/1,3,4
13/1,2,4
14/1,2,3
15/1,2,3,4

Hit & Run

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:26:48 UTC

This game is a funky experience that you will only experience once in your life.
Hit children in the head using shovels in this game!!!
Earn money, hit more children, earn more money!!!!!

PCM samples by @bikibird

Hit & Run 1.02

by LazarevGaming

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BallGame - My first game

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:27:18 UTC

I've recently started working on my first game. It currently has no name but it's about balls so for now it'll be referred to as BallGame. Your objective is to dodge balls and survive the longest.

ballgame

by LazarevGaming

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Keep in mind that the game will receive updates very soon and the following features are planned:

Power-ups
Actual music
Changing background based on score