Sand Toy (wip)

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 04:50:17 UTC

Sand Toy (wip)

by tenpn

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Watch sand fall in interesting patterns.

Looking for advice on optimising (and profiling?) this. On my old macbook pro it runs at around 10fps at best. I can't see any profiling tools built in to p8 but maybe I missed something? What's generally considered slow? I've sped this up by reducing the size of the simulation and mirroring, so it's really only running a 45x64 sim.

Things I'm thinking about:

some sort of "active islands" system for not updating the whole sim every update
not clearing the screen but remembering the part of the screen that are unstable, to reduce rendering costs, but I think (again, no way to measure) that it's update-bound.

Hat Jumper

Sat, 06 Jun 2015 09:14:03 UTC

This is my first pico8 game. The tile collision detection is a little ropy, the code is terrible, and there's no restart loop, but I like the handling and the animation of the little hat dude. Even though when standing still he looks a little like a horse in a yellow coat.

Hat Jumper 0.1

by tenpn

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Sand Toy (wip)

Hat Jumper