Samurise

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:30:13 UTC

samurise

by Troypicol

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Raijin, god of thunder has stolen your beloved cat! Fight through Oni and chase him to the heavens to save her!

A runner/platformer where all you need to worry about is jumping and swinging your katana!

Controls

Your character will run back and forth automatically.

Jump: Up key/button

Attack: 'o' or 'x' button, keyboard: z / x / c

Characters

The Samurai

The player character and hero of the story. On a revenge mission to retrieve his cat!

Jizou Statues

These poor guys have been possessed by Raijin's evil, rescue them with a slash of your katana.

Oni

Sent by Raijin to prevent you following him. Easily dispatched in small numbers but can be a challenge when in groups!

Raijin

God of thunder and kidnapper of cats.

Code details

This started off as a pico1k entry called Samurai Balls
I also submitted a verlet integration ragdoll implementation in the same jam which I used for death animations for player and oni!

Some cool features I used: (see acknowledgements for links)

Extended map.

I use a second cart to load the map from text into the extended map area to allow a bigger map. It also makes it really easy to do tall thin maps! In the end I'm only using half of the available map space, you can really make some big maps!

Secondary palette

I use the secondary palette to split the screen vertically at the level boundaries to give me the use of more than 16 colours on screen at once! This really works well with the vertical level layout of this game.

Parens-8

Initially I tried to get it all finished in lua without "cheating" but tokens were against me. Parens-8 is a very cool lisp interpreter right in lua, allowing for code in strings (1 token!).

Credits

All code/art/music by me.

Lazy Dev's Advanced Shmup Tutorial Youtube series
Whilst this game is not a shmup, that series is a great watch and contains many very useful pico8 coding tips which I used.

Secondary Palette BBS post

Parens-8

Of course the Pico8 wiki and probably a lot of other posts on this BBS.

I hope you enjoy playing this as much as I enjoyed making it!

Here is a video of me doing a play through, for those who want some ideas!
This is the old levels, I have reduced difficulty after feedback!

Sonic16x16

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:32:40 UTC

Sonic16x16

by Troypicol

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A 16x16 pixel demake of Sonic 1. Features Green Hill Zone 1 with Dr Eggman boss battle at the end.
I tried to keep the feel of Sonic 1 as best I could, and the level is fairly accurate to the original, though not 100% the same.

Features

All badniks except for Newton, the chameleon type.
Ring and Invincibility Monitors. No shield.
Remakes of original Sonic 1 music.
Timer/ring count HUD for speed running. Toggled via the pause menu.
Current best 42seconds!

GIFs

Controls

Very simple:
left/right : Move left and right
down : Roll (when running only)
o/x : Jump/Start Game

How to Play

Most people are probably familiar with Sonic but if not, the aim is to get to the end of the level. Collect rings to protect you from damage. Enemies can be killed by jumping or rolling into them.
Getting hit with no rings is Game Over.

Dev

This started as a challenge with some friends to make a game in 16x16 pixels.

The physics is implemented much like the original sonics. Height/width and angle meta data for each tile.
URL Sonic Physics Guide was invaluable.

The small size posed a few issues since sonic could easily tunnel through thin floors/walls at high speed. I also had to implement the tile angle as an array for some tiles rather than a single value, one angle for each x position.

I'm also butting right up agains the PICO-8 token limit (char and compressed size are well within limits though) so I had to do a few mild golfing passes to free up space towads the end so I could fit everything in. Please take into account if scouring the code and don't judge me too harshly!

Credits

Original game: Sonic Team at Sega
Music/Art/Programming: Me

Troypicol [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

Samurise

Controls

Characters

Code details

Extended map.

Secondary palette

Parens-8

Credits

Sonic16x16

Features

GIFs

Controls

How to Play

Dev

Credits