Rollout

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:57:17 UTC

ROLLOUT

A strategy game about rolling dice

by lights+blue

Rollout is a strategy game where all the actions you take in the game are determined by rolling dice. This can include attacking your enemies, building up defences or getting more dice, every one of these actions are preformed by rolling dice.
The game takes roughly 30 minutes to play, and theres no save data (i gave up on it)
Now select START on the menu to begin!

Look around -- - Arrow keys
Progress menus - (X) / [X]
Go back a menu - (O) / [Z]

On your turn, you will have two opportunites to roll dice, before the enemy's turn where all the enemies on board attack and travel towards the d100 at the center (defend it!).
To roll the dice on your turn, you will need to press X to reach the SELECT phase. Here, you can select a kind of dice with < / > , and how much of that dice you want to roll with ^ / v.
You can then press X again to target where you want to roll your dice, and then X again to roll the dice at where you targetted. You can target dice towards landing on or near enemies, or on the 4 shop spaces (rooms with labels above them and brown details on the floor) in order to get more dice to use.
Do keep in mind that the dice already out on the board get weaker every turn (however there are ways to stop this).
I would recommend that you either have your dice target an enemy (one of the red board game pieces) or land on a shop space (one of the spaces with brown on the floor and a label above it.)
There is more information on specific concepts in the game in the INFO menu which can be found by pressing (O) / [Z] a few times during gameplay.

Most of whats in this game I made at around October, November 2024. However now I wanted to polish the game up to be ready to be released here. This is by far the biggest PICO-8 game I've made, taking up almost 8 thousand tokens and most of the spritesheet, and may have a few bugs... maybe. If you encounter one, please tell me.
I've also done a few things with music I haven't seen that much in other PICO-8 carts, such as dynamic music and something involving chords...

and also credits here

Heracleum, who added the code for the splash screen as well as tidying up a bit of my code
PICO-8 (obviously)
Sprite2sFont by dw817 for creating fonts
Aseprite for sketching up ideas and doing most of the pixel art for the game
Blender (I used it for the cart image because there's no way I can use perspective that well)
A few code editors (notepad++, vscode)

CHANGELOG

Added a splash screen effect (thx Heracleum!)
Removed SAVE button from menu
Modified SELECT menu visuals
Fixed a typo saying ammount instead of amount

enjoy!!

Overdrived

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:24:20 UTC

Overdrived

by lightsBlue

[Click to Play]

OVERDRIVEd

by lights+blue

HOW TO PLAY

There's some alien invasion or something (idk make a head canon you can do it) and you need to drive over them.
Hit enemies and avoid the bullets fired in order to progress through the endless wave system (well it actually crashes at around 5000 i think), which introduces unique enemies with different patterns to learn.
Chain hitting your enemies in either a fast pace or through a drift in order to mantain a combo and score big. Do note that combos go away quickly in this game, and only go up to x8.
If you got hit 3 times, you fail, but you regain 1hp at the end of each wave, and if you and a wave with full health, you get a free 50pts!

CONTROLS

You can use ️◀️ and ▶️ to steer the car (well I guess it is more of a truck)
By holding 🔽 the car will drift, and will continue to slide with the same velocity you started with until you let go, and when you do let go it forces your car to boost in the direction that it is facing.
The car also steers faster while drifting so it is a good method to quickly get out of the way of incoming bullets, or confuse the blue/X enemies.
You can also press 🔼 to boost the car, which is great if you need to quickly hit enemies to end a round.
There are also various settings available, with 3 control layouts, a photosensitive (removes all if not most flashing effects) and colourblind mode (makes everything black and white and puts symbols over the different enemy types' head) if needed.

(EDIT): If playing on mobile or controller, go to the pause menu and press 'Change Controls' twice, which will set boosting and drfting to ❎ and 🅾️.

INFO

The original inspiration was from hearing a mod for The Binding of Isaac where you play as a car. I found the idea of throwing car controls into a game funny, but also pretty interesting as well.
I then started working on OVERDRIVE in December 2023 as my first PICO-8 project in order to understand how to use it (so the code may be a bit spaghetti), but I ended up continuing to make it until it was fully playable, part of this process was me trying to make it so that the truck is still 'controllable' for a game like this, hence the way drifting works.
Later, in 2024, I decided to polish up by adding a few features, rushed the cover image, (and added a d at the end of the name because there were no results for a search for 'overdrived')

CREDITS

All of the music, spritework and code is by me (lights+blue)
Feel free to use the music and other assets (but some credit would be nice)

GIFS

(my pb is 4880 btw gl and enjoy :) )

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Rollout

ROLLOUT

A strategy game about rolling dice

by lights+blue

and also credits here

CHANGELOG

Overdrived

OVERDRIVEd

by lights+blue

HOW TO PLAY

CONTROLS

INFO

CREDITS

GIFS