collinthenewmaker [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

Do you have any examples of crazy bonus levels?

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:54:05 UTC

Hi.
Do you have any examples of crazy secret/bonus levels (or rom hacks) that don't follow the theme/aesthetic of the rest of the game?
I want to incorporate something like that into my own game (and nobody can stop me)

My Music Covers + Music Visualizer

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:43:16 UTC

My music cover dump + A fun music visualizer for you to use!

This visualizer observes everything about your music except:

Arpeggios
Custom instruments (but it can handle custom waveforms, though!)
SFX modification effects (buzz, detune, reverb, dampen)
Instead of bandfiltered Pico8 noise it just shows plain white noise (and doesn't observe the NOIZ modification effect)
If you want to try this visualizer on your music, just COPY the code from this cartridge into your music cart OR copy your music into this cartridge (if you publish your music cart with this visualizer, please make sure to credit me somewhere) (you can also tackle some controls in the _init section):

collinnewmaker_vizualizer

by collinthenewmaker

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Now. my music covers from the past year! Plz listen theyr cool and also enjoy my rambling

Satori De Pon by Goreshit

Was very fun to make, very kicky and rad as hell.

collinnewmaker_satoridepon

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Atoth a Go!! Go!! by Machine Girl

God I love machine girl. Bending the waves is both hurting my ears and healing them with this beautiful screaming sound. Proud of the visuals too. The lyrics essensially show up when a (virtual) button is being pressed, because i recorded my button states and loaded them into rom, so the sprites section is essentially my buttonpress history. Smart innit?

collinnewmaker_atothagogo

by collinthenewmaker

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Rainbow Tylenol by Kitsune^2

My most recent work, very kicky and groovy as well. Even snuck my own solo in!

collinnewmaker_rainbowtylenol

by collinthenewmaker

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Xleepy by Machine Girl

Another machine girl cover. I'm in love with this track, it feels like you're standing in the middle of a desert road (the desert is rocky purplish for some reason, blame my wickedysick imagination) at night and a massive rave is ongoing in the distance. Ravelights(trademark circa 1795) can be seen in the visuals for the cart.

collinnewmaker_xleepy

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Subways Of Your Mind by FEX

Heard of the Most Mysterious Song? This cover was made on the beautiful day they found it.
[**could not embed: collinnewmaker_subwaysofyourmind-0]

Spamton by Toby Fox

A Deltarune cover! Enjoy the [[smooth grooves]]

collinnewmaker_spamton

by collinthenewmaker

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The Shanty Village by Zarinah (cover of Barracks Settlement from Yume Nikki)

I found this cover by Zarinah back in 2023 and it's AMAZING. They turned a 5-second-long depressing Yume Nikki loop into a full-on track filled with hope and tension. Couldn't help but remake it.

collinnewmaker_shantyvillage

by collinthenewmaker

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Another Medium by Toby Fox

An Undertale cover. Peak ost.

collinnewmaker_anothermedium

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Icosa by Oliver Buckland

Websircus ambience

collinnewmaker_icosa

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

We're Only Human by Graham Kartna

A nice track by #1 rated ENA composer out there

collinnewmaker_wereonlyhuman

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Hip Shop by Toby Fox

Smoothethstere

collinnewmaker_hipshop

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Fake You Out by Twenty One Pilots

Wave combination experimental fork of the visualizer cart. This track sounds surprisingly nice when translated into the 8-bit plane

collinnewmaker_fakeyouout

by collinthenewmaker

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Even Care from Petscop OST

love petscop 4ever

collinnewmaker_evencare

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Amalgam by Toby Fox

Another Undertale cover! very bouncy

collinnewmaker_amalgam_1

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Die Anywhere Else by Alec Holowka

A bittersweet, downtoearth song from one of the best games of all time.

collinnewmaker_dieanywhereelse

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Weebl's Stockmarket

car
used instruments from this cart: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=54906

collinnewmaker_stockmarket

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Examples of carts playing along with the "fantasy console" theme?

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:58:27 UTC

Do you have examples of carts that imply that pico8 actually existed? Like with an authentic cart label or a "copyright" disclaimer, or something like a pdf MANUAL included with the game, just like how real game cartridges were distributed back then?
I really like the idea of implementing something like this in my games. Here's what I did for one of my tools:

This only extends to the cart label having a "studio" name, a pico8 logo and a creative commons license logo though.

How to doodle a distorted electric guitar waveform?

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:32:05 UTC

Any ideas on how to doodle something that sounds at least remotely like one?

Check if a given SFX (0-7) is a custom waveform or not

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:23:10 UTC

There are 8 sound effects (№0-№7) that can be interpreted either as a custom instrument or a custom waveform. Where in memory does a pico-8 cart store information about what sfx is in waveform-mode? Im guessing there's a byte somewhere in memory with each of its bits corresponding to each SFX mode. The question is - what's the address?

VJ8 - a VJing tool for PICO-8

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:30:44 UTC

VJ8 - A PICO-8 VJing tool

Add visuals to your music

Get your best playlist blasting, get VJ8 rolling and get the rave going! Use your joystick to change ANIMS - short procedural (or not) animations that put you into trance (effect not guaranteed). Comes with a free distasteful demo song!(i cant make musik)

Use your own animations

Grab your old fancy demos and tweetcarts and turn them into something to be played at the party - just drop the code into VJ8.

The beat's about to drop

Hold the X button during intense parts of your song and let the visuals do their work.

Controls:

What are anims & breaks (manual from tab №2)

vj8_newmaker_1

by collinthenewmaker

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Middle Dave - 8-bit cover (From Sheriff Domestic)

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:10:46 UTC

A cover of "Middle Dave" theme from the hit Playstation 10 game "Sheriff Domestic" available for purchase in your local gas station. Definetely one of the middles of the Daves(tm).

Whistle version:

collin_middle_dave_whistle

by collinthenewmaker

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No-Whistle version:

collin_middle_dave_no_whistle

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Your thoughts on Pico-8's "fantasy" year of release?

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:13:16 UTC

Hey everyone.
What year do you think Pico-8 would've been released if it was a real console that physically existed?
Late 80's? 90's? Before or after NES? Let's talk about this.
P.S. Another topic, would Pico-8 be a hand-held or a home console? Personally, I think
it'd be a cube-shaped home console, square-sided just like its display. Similar to GameCube but more "cuber" (with equal dimentions) and quite small in size. Regarding the colors, i think dark grey body with a red outline would look stylish. Like on the picture, but a different color.

Minesweeper by Collin

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:38:39 UTC

A second take on the minesweeper game. Priginally made in 2 hours and polished a couple of months later.

D-pad - navigate
X - Reveal tile
O - mark tile as flagged

Reveal numbered tiles when there are enough flags around it to reveal all neighboring unflagged tiles.

collin_minesweeper_1

by collinthenewmaker

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mget() & mset() to different map layers?

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:15:44 UTC

Also, calling map() draws only the first layer of the map..?

How to capture / lock mouse in cartridge?

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:57:36 UTC

Is it even possible?
Also how to get mouse dx dy after you do that?

Matrix Wallpaper by Collin

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:51:08 UTC

Uses your theme's first two "desktop" colors for letters.

Matrix Wallpaper by Collin 1.0

by collinthenewmaker

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Louie Zong - Hello World | Pico8 cover

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:29:08 UTC

Just a little cover of "Hello World" by Louie Zong

helloworldmusic

by collinthenewmaker

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ENA's concert

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:31:44 UTC

a pico-8 cover of "browser history" by graham cartna
featuring moony, ena and grena (trademark) from the hit tv show ena dream bbq

enabrowserhistory

by collinthenewmaker

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Two Worlds

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 10:19:38 UTC

Originally made as my final college project, but polished and published 5 months later.

Arrows to move.
X to travel between "planet's faces"
O to look into the other "face"
O to read signs

two_worlds

by collinthenewmaker

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Random loot system

Sat, 27 May 2023 08:15:55 UTC

so today i made this
use it as you want guys
also maybe it's not token-efficient but
i'll leave it up to you

function randprob_from(l)
	--the function expects an
	--array of tables like these:
	--{p=0.5,v='item name'}

	--a "p" value between 0 and 1
	--and a "v" value.

	--"p" is propability of the
	--"v" value being returned

	local lim=1
	local value=rnd()
	for pos in all(l) do
		highlimit=lim
		lim-=pos.p
		lowlimit=lim
		if value<highlimit
		and value>=lowlimit then
			return pos.v
		end
	end
end

pipugozape

by collinthenewmaker

[Click to Play]

Mini Legacy

Tue, 02 May 2023 05:24:24 UTC

Demake of Rogue Legacy 1, work in progress.
Posted here to show my friends.

minilegacy

by collinthenewmaker

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Sakura by the seashore

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:30:58 UTC

Yep. That's it.

mudebeguso

by collinthenewmaker

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Cart runs on console, but fails to run in BBS

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 11:27:37 UTC

Hello! I've made a cart on my console and it runs there. But when I upload it onto BBS, it gives a syntax error.

Error:
syntax error line 5 (tab 1)
-return fget(mget(x/8,y/8),f)
<eof> expected near 'end'

Function:

function gfap(x,y,f)
-return fget(mget(x/8,y/8),f)
end

i've marked indent spaces as '-'

nogafekone

by collinthenewmaker

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Pico-8 version i made the game at: 0.2.5c

2d line map editor

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:44:46 UTC

2D Line Map Editor 1.0

by collinthenewmaker

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This tool allows you to map lines on a plane and export them into any of your carts.

Each line is represented as a table with values x1,y1,x2,y2.
This is useful for raycast projects or whatever you need to map lines for.

Buttons (left-up corner of the screen, top to bottom):

Temp save: temporarily saves all line data to adresses 0x4300-0x5dff in console memory.
Load: loads data at adresses 0x4300-0x5dff. Can be used as reserve copy.
Toggle ruler: Each line displays it's length to the right of it's 2nd point.
Export: allows you to type in your desired cart's name and export line data to it's addresses 0x4300-0x5dff. This overwrites your cartridge file so make sure you don't have anything valuable in there (sprites, map, sounds and, obviously, code are safe).

Modes: (down side of the screen, left to right):

Click: right-click to select the line and distplay it's info, left-click to deselect.
Pan: left-click drag across the plane to view different parts of it.
Draw: left-click and drag to create a new line at your pointer position.
Delete: left-click near the line to delete it. Lines that will be affected are highlighted red.

Memory:

Each line takes 8 bytes of space (2 bytes per 16-bit variable, 4 variables).
All memory in the aforementioed range is cleared before writing line data.

How to read line data back:

In your original cartridge, you can do something like this:

lines={}
for i=0x4300,0x5dff,8 do
 local x1=peek2(i)
 local y1=peek2(i+2)
 local x2=peek2(i+4)
 local y2=peek2(i+6)
 local line={x1=x1,y1=y1,x2=x2,y2=y2}
 add(lines,line)
end