Drowsy Paul

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:53:27 UTC

This is my very first pico 8 game.
It's very rough and I just wanted to see how it would go.

Paul is sleepy. You are paul. Get to bed and don't fall asleep on the floor.

The aim of this game is to get to your bed by dodging crazy obstacles!
But be careful!
You have twenty seconds before Paul falls asleep on the floor... collect coffee to prevent this from occurring!
Paul encounters invisible walls, blood-stained spikes, locked doors, bounce pads, and magical portals!

Will you help Paul get to bed?

wait until function?

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:20:10 UTC

Hi so I'm quite new to pico-8 so I'm sorry if this is a silly question to ask, but I was wondering if there was a way to wait until something happens. Like the scratch block wait-until. I don't want this to be in an _update() loop as I only want it to happen once, but I also don't want to create too many variables.
My idea was that you were asked a question. You choose and it comes up with a different dialogue depending on your answer.
In the end I want something like this:

if btnp(4) then        <----(in an update loop)
  if qna==false then
    nexttext()
    return
  else
    nexttext()
    a=hovertxt
    qna=false
    return
  end
end

if qna==true then      <----- also in update loop
  if btnp(2) or btn(3) then hovertxt+=1 end
  if hovertxt>1 then hovertxt==0 end
end

textdisplay("Hi so, do you think,",function()<----just a custom function that tells the code to run whatever is inside after the dialogue finished.
  qna=true
  a=2              <------ in an init loop
end)
textdisplay("Yes Or No")
wait until a==1 or 0
if a==1
  textdisplay("you said no!")
else
  textdisplay("you said yes!")
end

if you can help me solve this, it would be very appreciated!

Hazi [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

Drowsy Paul

wait until function?