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Gamepad SP

Fri, 02 May 2025 16:25:17 UTC

Gamepad Tester SP

Shows the input and button numbers of the gamepad... but fun!

gamepad_sp

by washburnello

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Legendables - Alpha 1 Release!

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:55:14 UTC

Legendables: (WIP Title)

What started as a Zelda 1 clone has developed into a multi-player couch co-op adventure game. The engine is still VERY much a work in progress, and honestly I'm just making this post to grab hold of the name first.

Version: Alpha 01

legendables: Alpha 1 Release!

by washburnello

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Controls: Designed for use with gamepads

Gamepad

D-pad or Left stick:
Move player

Right stick:
Aim attacks (While wielding the Dance Slippers)

Start button:
Pause (Player 1 only)

Face buttons (oxsh, abxy, etc.) and Left & Right bumpers:

Pick up item: Press a button while standing on an item assigns it to that button
Drop item: Holding a button for a few seconds drops its item
Use item: Press a button to use its item

Keyboard (Default Picotron controls)

Arrow Keys:
Move player

WASD Keys:
Aim attacks (While wielding the Dance Slippers)

Enter Key:
Pause (Player 1 only)

Action Buttons: Z, X, F, G, Q, and E

Pick up item: Press a button while standing on an item assigns it to that button
Drop item: Holding a button for a few seconds drops its item
Use item: Press a button to use its item

Progress & Screenshots

2025-05-23

Added: New art assets for the family of protagonists, the Kotron Family!
Added: Pressing start pauses the character (incomplete)
Added: Animated tiles
Added: New Item, the Acorn Lantern lights up the area around the player. Multiples makes the area larger
Change: Beenerang can now be thrown diagonally
Change: Shield now does zero damage but bumps baddies back
Fixed: Shield drop time is too short --Extended drop timer to 180 for now
Fixed: Enemy attack aminations are broken --Was using old single frame anims
Fixed: Container Berries re-spawn --Container berries are now items
Fixed: When full on hearts, picking up a Container berry, crashes the game --Reworked container berries to be consumable items
Fixed: Hidden room crashes the game --Removed unfinished items in room
Fixed: Leaving a room while your boomerang is out, deletes it --Boomerang now tracks what room it is in and deletes if player leaves
Fixed: Dance Shoes + Shield only spins when starting facing down --Implemented overrides for anim, frame, and facing
Fixed: Life berry varieties need to be more distinct in color/shape --Made sprite bigger for gold life berry
Fixed: Drops can bounce off screen edge --Added fence collision to drops
Fixed: When an enemy enters a door and the player pans the screen, the player teleports --All actors were sharing an inhereted hitbox table
Fixed: You can break your own seeds if you turn quick with the shield on your back
Fixed: Boomerang tile collision is too big and hits walls --Seperated the tile collision hitbox from the object collision hitboxes and shrunk it
Fixed: Buttons fire off immediatly when picked up or when a player is created

2025-05-17

Alpha 1 release!

Added: Death warps you to the starting area for now
Added: All findable items are usable and have either a combat ability, utility, or both.
Added: Fully explorable section of the overworld map
Added: One explorable cave

2025-05-08

Big Milestone: Combat is done!

The Item framework is now finished and enables things like movement enhancements as well as ranged attacks

Melee attacks are also now possible

The actor system now supports baddies with their own unique movement behaviors and attacks are now handled by giving the baddie an item. The octomatos in this image have the slingshot that shoots seeds

Other

Actors have more stats now (life, max_life, str, def, knockback, steady)
Reworked projectile system
Added roadmap

2025-05-04

Dash Boots - Sprint in a direction

Health bunch can fill and empty

Dance Shoes - Unlock aiming with the right stick as a passive. Activating them makes you pirouette on a cooldown.

Status bar got a huge update
- Mini map
- Items with buttons
- Health bunch (hooked to player health)
- Placeholders for sugar cubes, keys, mail, etc
Per player inventory (only code for now)
- Holds items
- Items can be assigned to buttons
Items (kinda done-ish)
- Slingshot
- Dash Boots
- Dance Shoes

2025-04-25

Up to 4 players
Independant viewports that support edge scrolling
The entire map is drawn and handles every entity (will probably break into rooms for performance)

Roadmap to a Vertical Slice

[x] Player
[x] Map
[x] Items
[x] Weapons
[x] Monsters
[ ] Boss Monsters
[ ] NPCs
[x] Drops
[ ] Upgrades
[ ] Shops
[x] Inventory
[ ] Title Screen
[ ] End Screen
[ ] Settings

DM me on the Picotron discord if you're interested in playing with alpha carts.

Modulus (modulo calculator)

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:50:51 UTC

Modulus

The Fun Modulo Calculator

Modulo (%) is a mathematical operator that performs a division and returns the remainder.
It's very handy for creating timers that loop at specific intervals like for animations or counters.

I have a hard time visualizing how the formulas work so I made this silly tool to visualize it in a fun way.

modulus

by washburnello

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How to Use a Modulus Panel

1.Animation: Changes animation frames when the Results (7) equal 0.0
2.Timer: Choose between 'fps' and 'time()'.

fps - Starts at 0 and is incremented by 1 for each frame.
time() - calls the time() function which counts up the number of seconds since modulus started.
3.Modulo: Clicking this will cause Modulo (3) and the Operator (5) to change places, modifying the current formula.
4.Number One: The first adjustable number in the formula. Click the arrow buttons to change the number.
5.Operator: Click to change between "*" (multiply) or "/"(divide). Can have its place swapped with Modulo (3) for different formulas.
6.Number Two: The second adjustable number in the formula. Click the arrow buttons to change the number.
7.Result Box: Shows the result of the formula every frame (60fps).
8.Extra Panels: Clicking the -/+ buttons will add or remove extra modulus panels. Useful for comparing formulas.

The default formula is (f % 5 * 1) and can be adjusted by using the various buttons on the panel.

(Tool tips can be enabled in the window menu.)

Thanks for Reading Me,
-Wash

Anim-8 ~ Picotron Edition

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:25:24 UTC

Anim-8 Comes to Picotron

Ever wish you could see your sprites animate while you're drawing them?

Anim-8 (pe) launches inside Picotron's current workspace and shows sprites from the numbered gfx files in /ram/cart/gfx/

Anim-8 (pe) must be run unsandboxed to access the sprites in /ram/cart/gfx/0.gfx
- Right click Anim-8 (pe) cart > About > Uncheck [x] Sandboxed
Changes must be saved with CTRL-S before they show up in Anim-8 (pe).

"May this tool help bring your creations to life 🙇‍♂️" -Wash

Change Log

v0.3 (2025-03-26)
- Change: Controls completly rewritten to support
mouse gui
- Change: Cleaned up cart folder structure
- Change: Click to choose animation frames
- Change: Renamed T variable to F for GUI
compatability
- Change: Removed "pe" from icon cause it felt too
cluttered/busy
- Change: Palette changes now only effect sprite
- Added: Settings are now collapsable
- Added: Extra animation types forward, reverse,
bounce, ease-in, and ease-out
- Added: Extended palette now supported with toggle
- Added: Palette reset button 'x'
- Added: Reset settings option in menu
- Added: Menu links for Help and Changelog
- Added: Settings now have version number and will
be purged and recreated if older than current
- Added: Move sprite within viewport. Click home
to reset position
- Added: ???
- Removed: Gamepad controls (replaced by mouse gui)

v0.2 (2025-02-23)
- Change cart now launches into current workspace
(Launch from tooltray)
- Fixed pcur_r being saved in settings.pod
- Added checks for if it's sandboxed and displays
an error message
- Added ReadMe.txt
- Added ChangeLog.txt
- Added new setting to change *.gfx file
feature recommended by Garrett(@the_garrett)

Controls

The mouse is used to interact with the components of Anim-8 (pe). Most components are left clicked, but some can be right clicked (0.gfx or palette balls, for example).

Control Boxes

Settings and the Palette, are now located in their own control boxes. These control boxes can be un/folded by clicking on the 'v' shaped arrow in their center. Only one can be unfolded at a time, but both can be folded to save screen space.

Extended Palette: Same as the X button in the Palette control box. (See below)
Open Help: Opens this document
Open ChangeLog: Opens ChangeLog.txt
Reset Settings: Resets all settings, Palette Balls, *.gfx file, tabs, animation frames to their defaults. (This can be done manually by deleting the file /appdata/anim_8_pe/settings.pod)

Background

Click the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the color index used for the background behind the sprite. An index of -1 will show a clip of Anim-8 (pe)'s 0.map file. (Note: This is not your cart's 0.map)

Outline

Click the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the color index used to draw an outline around the sprite. An index of -1 will turn the outline off.

Size

Click the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the size of the sprite in the animation preview. Sprites are clipped to the size of the animation preview.

Speed

Click the arrow buttons increase or decrease the speed that the animation plays at. A speed lower than 1 will pause the animation.

Type

Click the arrow buttons to cycle through the following types of animations

Forward: Frames increment, looping from orange to blue.
Reverse: Frames decrement, looping from blue to orange.
Bounce: Frames bounce back and forth, looping between orange and blue.
Ease In: Frames increment, starting slowly then speed up exponentially, looping from orange to blue.
Ease Out: Frames increment, starting quickly then slow down exponentially, looping from orange to blue.

Palette

Changing colors in the palette is useful for testing sprites with alternative colore (Palette shifting) without needing to redraw your sprites.

Hover over a Palette Ball to update the info bar.

INDX: The index number of this Palette Ball's position in Picotron's palette
COL: The color assigned to this Palette Ball

Click a Palette Ball to change its Color.

Left Click: Increase color number
Right Click: Decrease color number

Control Box Buttons:
There are two buttons in the corners of the Palette control box that offer some options.

X: Reset all changes made to Palette Balls
I/II: Alternate between the standard and extended color palettes. (I 0-31, II 32-63)

Frames

Anim-8 (pe) will use the sprites that are between the Orange and Blue markers for the Animation Preview.

Setting Markers:

Click a sprite to set the Orange Marker
Move mouse and click a different sprite to set the Blue Marker.

(Note: Setting the Blue marker before the Orange will cause it to snap to the same sprite as the Orange. If you want the animation to play in reverse, set the Type option to 'Reverse'.)

Tab

Clicking on the grey 0/1/2/3 tabs will shift the spritesheet by 64 sprites, like Picotron's sprite editor.

Gfx File

Anim-8 (pe) reads sprite data from the *.gfx files in /ram/cart/gfx.

Left Click: Increase index of *.gfx file
Right Click: Decrease index of *.gfx file

(Note: Anim-8 (pe) will march through the gfx files in order from 0-31 and stop before a number that does not exist. For example, if 5.gfx does not exist, you can only choose 0-4, even if 6.gfx does exist.)

(Test it out in the browser using some default sprites that are included)

Anim-8 (pe)

by washburnello

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Anim-8

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:56:12 UTC

Final Release

Anim-8 is a very basic sprite animator meant for making an amination real quick.
Great for beginners, just learning or helping someone real quick online!

How to use

Draw sprites
Run the cart
Watch it animate!

anim_8

by washburnello

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Instructions

Palette

Choose a color from the palette, then change it to any color (Even secret ones!)
Palette changes stay in the editor so you can continue to use them when drawing.

Background

Test your sprites on a background color or a map

Outline

Add a colored outline to make your sprites stand out

Width & Height

Anim-8 has full large sprite support (up to 4x4)

Size Preview

Increase the size of your sprites. Useful for sharing gifs of smaller sprites.

Speed

5 different animation speeds plus pause.

Spritesheet Tabs

Switch spritesheet tabs with < & > then shange the First and Last animation frame with O/X and </> respectivley.

(Beginner Tip: Press ctrl-8 to start recording a gif, then ctrl-9 to end)

Hog Runner

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:04:09 UTC

Hog Runner

WIP: Endless Runner Test with some cusom Sonic sprites

hog_runner

by washburnello

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Poochie Survivors

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 04:21:16 UTC

Poochie Survivors!

Can you survive to 11:00 minutes in the new 'Help me Balance' update?

4 new Poochies
2 new weapons
2 new items
Old weapons have been buffed (maybe too much?)
Fetch Stick now targets enemies
New results screen
Stuff to do at home
Make the clock faster
Faster performance
Bangin' music
1 secret character
Take a snooze
Bark for fun!

poochie_survivors

by washburnello

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I'd love some feedback on how easy or difficult you think it is. Balancing the attack powers and enemies has been quite the challenge. <3

Old Updates

- Wash's Game Jelly Submission -

I just finished my very first game jam where I did the coding. This is also my very first complete game!
It took me two weeks to finish.

The balancing didn't get finished so it's a little on the hard side but I'd like to follos with game dev experiment with a bug fix experiment as well.

How it's going.

How it started.

Poochie Survivors - 2024 Game Jelly

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:37:03 UTC

Wash's Game - 2024 Game Jelly

I'm participating in the 2024 Game Jelly and needed a place to stash my project so folks can play it.

poochie_survivors

by washburnello

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v0.4 - Final Day!

We're all done! This was a lot of fun to make and I'm super proud of how it came out.
I will say, I didn't get to balance it much so it's currently very hard, but I plan to do some bug fixes so make sure to post about them here. :)

v0.3 - Day 6

There is now a core game loop though it isn't very flashy at this point and needs more variety.

Added lots of sprites for future enemies and attacks
Map now moves!
Wag attack fades out
Added sfx for damage, enemies, and picking up bones
Pick up bones for EXP!
Added EXP and LV system
- Level ups refill health
- Level ups decrease time between wag attacks
- In the future they will give the option for different weapons
Added sprites for another dog (co-op?)

v0.1 - Day 1

Boy, figuring out how to get the enemies to follow you was hard, but it works now!

Changed BG to black
Cleaned up sprites to show better on black BG
Added tail wag attack (collision is buggy)
Added cats as placeholder enemies
Cats can be tail wagged at
Cats follow you (so hard to figure out!)
Barking is still just for funzies

v0.0 - Midnight Start

Put in two solid hours tonight and got a lot accomplished. The current idea is to make a vampire survivors style game.

Got my basic project set up
Plugged in my game intro
Hooked up my dog sprites
Got movement working and a basic animation system in place
Added "press O to bark" for funzies

Jebediah Peppermint - The Gun Wizard

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:58:57 UTC

Jebediah Peppermint - The Gun Wizard

~WORK IN PROGRESS~

Hi I'm Wash, 👋

I'm making small games based on every player character in the actual play D&D podcast, The Winged Badger Tavern that I play in.

In this game you play as my first character, Jebediah Peppermint, the molefolk gun-wizard who spits fire and fires spit. You'll fly through the sky atop your trusty blunderbuss 'Big Boy' and shoot down the evil forces of The Brightworld Company.

Watch live Monday's at 8:00pm EST

jeb_gunwizard

by washburnello

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The gameplay is based on Lazy Dev's Academy shmup tutorial

Shoot baddies to fill your ammo. Use your ammo to fire BIG BULLETS and get a high score!

O - Shoot Bullets
X - Change Weapon

Big Bullets take shells. Regain shells by killing blue enemies.

Shooting Temp Baddies

New Weapon: Lightning Bolt!

FP-62's Burrito Stand

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:55:28 UTC

~WORK IN PROGRESS~

FP-62's Burrito Stand

Hi I'm Wash 👋

This is my first attempt to make a game. It's based on the actual play D&D podcast The Winged Badger Tavern that I play in.
I love my characters so much that I decided I needed to make games featuring each of them.

In this game you play as fan favorite, newly sentient robot looking for a life, FP-62 as he mans the Four Guys Adventures & Vibes Magical Bean Burrito stand! Serve burritos to your customers but watch out for 'The Dead Eyes' gang trying to steal from your stock.

Watch live Monday's at 8:00pm EST

fp_62

by washburnello

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Changes

v0.41
Adding my changes now that the holiday is over and I'm back to my full-time job.

Started work on gameplay music
Added win/lose state and screen
Placeholder gameplay

v0.4
I'm still undecided on game mechanics so I've been tinkering until something sticks.

Rebuilt scene transition system
Added placeholder how-to screen
Crunched down some tokens in the splash screen
Updated animation system
Added some tool functions like print to center of screen and sprite outlines

v0.1
This is my first attempt at making a game so feedback is very much welcome.

Splash screen is done
Main Menu is done
Basic 'how to' screen is done
Scene transitions are pretty solid
Basic player movement is mostly done
Missing core gameplay loop and mechanics
Music and sfx for the menu is done
Gameplay music is missing

Thanks for taking the time to play my game :)