Lobo [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

Translating the pause menu

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:12:22 UTC

Hey everyone!
Is there a way to change the menu items' texts?
I know I can add/remove menu items with menuitem(), but I want to have a full multilanguage UI in my next games, and for that I need to translate the default menu items
Any help is appreciated!

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Kitty's Bubbles

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:21:20 UTC

kittys_bubbles

by Lobo

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Kitty's Bubbles

Hey everyone! This is my attempt at making a bubble shooter in Pico 8.
Help Kitty through 40 levels to retrieve her lost bubble.

Press left and right to aim
Press up and down to fine tune your aim
Press Z to shoot
Press X to swap your bubbles
Aim assist and colorblind modes can be toggled at the pause menu

There's a few unlockables if you make it to the end
Have fun!

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Update!

Reduced turning speed when using the up and down keys, allowing for more precise aiming
Added "reset level", "quit level" and "quit cutscene" menu items

Bunny Games!

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:53:33 UTC

bunny_games

by Lobo

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Just a bunch of minigames I made for my cornmunity!

This project is more of a study to test a few ideas:

GUI/Mouse controls (sorry, it's not fully functional with a controller yet...)
Swapping the spritebank using different GFX files to create multiple visual themes
Swapping the _update and _draw functions on include to create different screens with different behaviors

Still, hope you guys enjoy it!

Triforce Screensaver!

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:24:19 UTC

triforce

by Lobo

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Hello Everybody!
I was messing with an algorithm that generates a Sierpinski triangle (a really cool fractal) by drawing random dots, combined it with some color lookup table magic and ended with a nice screensaver that kinda reminds me of the Triforce
Hope you guys enjoy it!

Questions about binary exporters

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:18:01 UTC

Hey there everyone!
I've been testing the binary exporters today and, first of all, love having this feature, but I have a few questions on how to "polish" the user experience on those exported games.

First, I struggled with not having an exit option on the menu, but figured adding a button with send_message(2, {event="shutdown"}) does de trick.

Now there's a few other things I'd like to know:

Is there an in-system function to toggle fullscreen/windowed mode other than using the alt+enter shortcut?
Is there a way to disable the alt+left, alt+right shortcuts, or the topbar in general? I'd like for the player to stay in the game workspace and not access the Picotron system on the exported binary.
Saving/loading data with store / fetch doesn't seem to be working, at least on windows. Is there a way to enable this, or maybe another way to persist data?

Thanks in advance

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waving_flag

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:58:00 UTC

Hi y'all!
I made a little waving flag widget for you to customize your Picotron tooltray!
The default image is a brazillian flag, but you can change it to whatever you want. The image is drawn using Tline3d, so make sure the dimensions are power of 2.
You can also customize the flag placement by changing the x and y values of the "window_attribs" table inside Main.lua.

waving_flag

by Lobo

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How to remove a widget?

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:50:24 UTC

Recently I learned how to add my own widgets to the tooltray, but I'd also like to remove the default widgets (eyes and clock) to further customize my desktop. Is there a way to do it?

Bunny Race!

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:12:41 UTC

bunnyrace

by Lobo

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Hello y'all! I made a fun little project to test the dset and dget functions. Didn't know I could save data in a PICO8 game! Hope you like it <3

Balloon

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 02:02:35 UTC

balloon

by Lobo

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Hello y'all! My name is Lobo.
This is my first attemp at making a Pico-8 game.
Some aspects are a little rough (mainly the coding and the music), but I hope you like it!

EDIT: fixed a sound effect playing on ending screen when it shouldn't :)

EDIT 2: the key shouldn't stay attached to the balloon at the ending cutscene, right? haha