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Finlayball 2

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:42:37 UTC

✅ Two player co-op on one keyboard.
✅ Auto-balancing difficulty (great for adults playing with kids).
✅ Pretty nice physics™ with elastic collisions.
🪙 Pick up all the coins as fast as you can!

Also:

Special coins
Pixel-based scoring
Extra modes: Try Z or X from the title screen.

Blast/Off 0.13

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:07:58 UTC

blast/off 0.13

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A game about rockets, for little and big kids. This is a one-button game with no possibility of failure.
Press X to skip the SPACE WALK.
See if you can activate the hidden autopilot for landing!

Change log:

0.2

Sound, stars, random birds, sky colours, tracking camera

0.3

Added a countdown! Player can tap UP or hold it.

0.4

Used fill patterns to dither the gradations of atmosphere.

0.5

Attract screen plays out an animation of astronaut getting on board.
Added states to complete the game loop, you can get to orbit and back.
Added SPACE WALK.
Added rocket heating up depending on reentry velocity.
Adjusted volume for less pew-pew and more engines.
0.6
Increased fun by 100% by rating your landing. Can you make a PERFECT landing?
Added impact smoke on landing.

0.7

Added fuel-burning engine to the car (smoke trail)
Added altimeter with goal marker

0.8

Added secret autopilot mode, toggles on and off. Autopilot will always attempt to make a perfect landing, but it'll cost you your rating.

0.9 "C65"

Mountains!
The car gets pushed away by the rocket blast, if it's close enough (thanks for the suggestion, C65!)

0.10

Camera shakes when you hit the ground.
Improved sound effects for 'hit the ground' (sounds beefier) and 'hit a bird' (a bit chirpier).
Now a hot rocket takes time to cool down!

0.11

Nicer background with clouds behind the mountains (inspired by Jelpi).
Two varieties of procedural clouds with fluffy particles.

0.12

Intro and countdown music.

0.13

Press X during SPACE WALK to skip it.
Tweaked music.

Finlayball 1.3

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 03:17:00 UTC

Finlayball 1.3

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My first pico-8 game. Clear the screen as fast as you can!

Scoring brackets:

3000-∞: Non-gamer
2000-2999: You need practice
1000-1999: Doing OK
500-999: Respectable
100-499: Good
0-99: Thank RNGesus

0.2:

Start and Win screens

0.3:

Player trail
Starting coins increased to 4

1.0 "Vlambeer edition"

Coin pickup explosions
Permanent explosion marks
Pause for 2 frames on pickup
Screenshake on boundary collision
Better title and win screens
Thanks Noah for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U

1.1 "Par & Marty"

Fixed TIMER not resetting at end of game

1.2 "Secret modes"

You can toggle PAINT MODE on the title screen
You can toggle MIDAS MODE on the title screen

1.3 Increased lifetime of sparks and removed most frame delay on pickup.