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DASHBOX

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:21:19 UTC

WELCOME TO DASHBOX

DASHBOX is a frenetic arcade score chase game where you DASH inside a BOX.

Get to the SAFE WALL before the timer runs out.
Collect the ORBS to increase your score.
Avoid crashing into the GATES!

HOW TO PLAY

In DASHBOX you control the ball that sits on the interior edge of the wall.
Use left, right, up, and down to move your ball along the wall.
To DASH, hit the Z key (or circle button)

If your path passes through a GATE, your trajectory will be changed!

The WHITE WALL is the SAFE WALL
You want to make sure you're on the safe wall when the timer at the bottom of the screen runs out

To increase your score, collect the vibrating ORB.
The point value of an orb increases by 1 for every orb collected while the timer is active, so move fast to get quick points!

IF YOU DASH TOO MANY TIMES WITHOUT COLLECTING THE ORB, YOU WILL PERISH.

WAYS TO DIE (AKA THINGS TO AVOID)

Being on a non-safe wall when the timer expires
Colliding with a gate in a way that does not redirect your trajectory
Dashing too many times without collecting an orb

Have fun, and chase the highest score!

This game is a Zeflyn Design
a portion of the development for this game was streamed live on my Twitch Channel:
Zeflyn on Twitch
You can catch stream vods on my Youtube channel as well:
Zeflyn on YouTube

The music for DASHBOX was created by the incredibly talented Appalach!
Appalach on Twitch
Appalach on YouTube

You can also download this game for WINDOWS/OSX/LINUX on my itch!
Zeflyn on itch

Conveyor

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:46:22 UTC

conveyor

by Zeflyn

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This is my first ever Pico-8 game!
In Conveyor, you play as a little robot that cannot move except for clinging to the conveyor belts above or below you.
Avoid the obstacles, hang on, and persevere!

Controls:
UP - cling to belt
DOWN - sit on belt
X - restart level
Z - begin game

There are options in the menu to mute the music and sfx.

I developed this game in part on my twitch stream!
Lately we've been doing a bit of stumbling around in Picotron, come hang out!

Zeflyn on Twitch!

Thanks for playing!

UPDATE #conveyor-2 : Fixed bug that allowed for infinite respawns on final game screen.

How to pod-ify a sprite in your .gfx file?

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:31:54 UTC

Hello!

I'm trying to understand how to best work with image data in Picotron for use in things like .txt files and whatnot.
In the readme that rests on the pictron desktop, there's an image near the beginning of the file that, when clicked, reveals a metadata object that is "unpodding" base64 encoded image data so it renders in the txt editor.

How would I go about podifying a sprite on a .gfx file so I too can insert the base64 data into a .txt file?

I've tried doing something like this:

?pod(fetch("/ram/cart/gfx/0.gfx"),0x7)

in the picotron terminal, and it outputs the b64, but it's podifying the entire gfx file, not the sprite I want to podify (in this case, sprite 1, second slot available on the gfx file).

Anyone have any ideas here?

Changelog for v0.1.0f is out, but not the download?

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:18:34 UTC

The changes in Picotron v0.1.0f look very exciting, but the downloads page appears to only have v0.1.0e

Anyone know when we can expect to see v0.1.0f?

crystal_ball

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:42:21 UTC

crystal_ball

by Zeflyn

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Made a silly little crystal ball that you can ponder. Rub it to receive answers from the void.
I like to mount mine in the tooltray so I can rub it in the middle of a difficult coding problem.
Have fun!

Binary Clock Wallpaper

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:42:07 UTC

Binary Clock Wallpaper

by Zeflyn

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Just a little wallpaper I scraped together!