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A Pico-Sized Holiday Ninja Game (2024)

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 12:50:24 UTC

A Pico-Sized Holiday Ninja Game

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Assume the role of a battle-hardened Holiday Ninja tasked with retrieving the stolen presents from Elf Mountain! Your weapon of choice? Bauble ornaments.

Released as part of the 2024 Pico-8 Advent Calendar, kindly organized by bikibird.

Basic Controls

Left/Right = Move left or right
X = Attack (ornament toss)
O = Jump

Gameplay Mechanics

The controls are inspired by games such as Ninja Gaiden and The Messenger, with a touch of generic Metroidvania.

- Wall Hang/Climb

- Jump Pads

Hard Mode Toggle

Picking up the the grim reaper will enable Hard Mode for the rest of the game. This makes the levels more difficult by introducing tougher game mechanics (more obstacles, stronger entities).

Credits

Design, code, sprites, sounds, and music arrangements by keyboardonly
Original Yeti sprites by hoyb.itch.io and used with permission

Ninja Game

Sun, 12 May 2024 19:50:08 UTC

Ninja Game 0.1c

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This is basically just a boss fight with a little bit of platforming. Gameplay is inspired by Ninja Gaiden on NES.

v0.1c -- Accidentally removed coyote timing, so it's back and controls are a little easier. Cleaned up a few things. Boss is not quite as overwhelming anymore.

v0.1b -- Redesigned the layout of the "tutorial" area as to not kill you immediately if you don't understand what to do, and the boss fight is now harder. The boss is much more aggressive overall, and I think it has made for a better encounter.

There is a secret way to fight him without the fire upgrade if you really want an endurance challenge. Coins still don't do anything, and the game still kind of ends after the boss.

Things to know:

Down + Jump to drop through some platforms.
Holding left or right will let you hang on most walls -- you cannot hang from walls with purple slime.
You can jump while hanging on walls. Holding the direction of the while and pressing jump will make you climb the wall. If you press the opposite direction and jump at the same time, you'll jump in that direction.
You can attack while hanging on walls. If you need to move lower, just release the direction you're holding and then press it again.
You cannot turn around while in the air. You can slowly move backwards, but you'll continue facing the original direction. This is intentional so you can focus your attack.

Mean boss

Wizards & Warriors Title Screen Music

Wed, 08 May 2024 23:30:43 UTC

kizudegizu

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Title screen music from the NES game Wizards & Warriors. Original was by the great David Wise.

Line Stepper

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:07:21 UTC

Line Stepper

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Use the up and down arrow keys to move across the center line.

Cross the moving line for bonus points.

gridsandballs

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:21:01 UTC

gridsandballs

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Just testing changing video resolutions and drawing a grid in different sizes. Has a lot of random things I was just playing around with, like sprite scaling, using a custom mouse cursor and getting coordinates. Originally was drawing the grid using sprites, but line() turned out to be easier. Was having a hard time getting sspr to stretch a single pixel row correctly.

The balls get recreated every time the grid size or resolution changes.

Inflating Blobs test

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:35:05 UTC

Inflating Blobs

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Still learning this thing (I am not a programmer). Had an idea for an easy game but wanted to see how I could get blob-type graphics working first to see how they'd potentially look. Kind of fun to watch.