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here is a little cartridge demonstrating the reflection of light ray on a mirror.
i'm new to pico-8, and i love it.
Finally, track four! This is a short one.
It sounds like something from a trailer so there's one use idea!
If you want to translate the symbols, the language is Korean(I'm not Korean but it looks cool so...). Of course, if you already knew Korean, you would know that it was in Korean and you would understand the Korean since you already knew Korean. Y e a h . Anyways, enjoy!
I'd like to learn from some of the carts here in this forum by loading them into Designer. Is that possible?
There are two examples of keys that you pick up.
Multiple keys at same room and multiple keys at different rooms.
Please let me know if you have questions.
Hope that helps
/DM
You are a star that jumps (video gaming).
Soundtrack: youtube.com/watch?v=qi2jSi0W4JM
Move: arrows or ESDF
Jump: Z/X/N/M
Addition options in menu (P/Enter):
- Adjust wobble intensity
- Show timer
- Skip screen
- Reset progress
Big thanks to friends and twitter pals for the testing, support and feedback <3
Hey guys,
This was slightly based on the NES version.
I wanted to start learning Pico-8 and found motivation in the fact that my fiancee loves Tetris, so yeah, another Tetris game was made ^^
I don't know if I'll be able to make sound effects for it because I lack the knowledge, but who knows, maybe sometime in the future?
Anyway, if someone plays it, I hope you have a good time.
Toki Pona Dictionary
I've seen a lot of posts detailing trying to add dictionary support to Pico-8. Those efforts are really impressive, but it made me realize that a dictionary would be much more manageable if the language weren't English. Thus, the Toki Pona dictionary was born. With only 120 official words, you could easily fit that amount of data into a Pico-8 cartridge. Press the up and down arrows to scroll the screen up and down.
Features:
- All 120 Toki Pona words with their definitions
- Each word is accompanied by its hieroglyphic
- Press left or right to quickly scroll by letter
This project took me a short amount of time, so its focus is functionality. Let me know what you think :)
Is it possible to print things to the console?
Also, how do you reference objects in a script?
Boy has it been a full year since the last version, boy time sure does fly. I plan to add smaller graphical updates for now but in the near future I plan on revamping the old code and add more settings and customization, hopefully. For now v1.1 has a auto pick option in the settings under the "random colors" option for single player.
Student asked about how to make random doors spawn in a room.
I used emitter to emit inventory items and then have doors check for inventory item id.
I added a bit of a gameplay so it makes more sense and works as a game a bit better.
Will try to record tutorial later.
Pico-8 is a great tool, and for many reasons. The main reason I believe Pico-8 is so awesome is because of its restrictions. Limited palette and resolution inspires creativity, limited memory and computational power inspires optimization, and limited data values inspires frustration.
Yes, frustration. What I'm talking about is the 16.16 fixed point that only allows number values to go up to 32,767. I've only just started using Pico-8 but this is such an infuriating detail to me, which is why I've made this post in favor of allocating just a little more space for numbers. Something like 48.16 fixed point instead, or even 32.16 or 24.16 if possible (I'm not too knowledgeable on binary storage).
Yes, I know, there are several solutions to this problem. I've researched many and even came up with one of my own, but when you're just trying to throw together a game that for whatever reason requires values higher than 32,767, it's a total pain! On a recent game (where I first encountered the number limitations), I found myself spending more time fixing and optimizing this problem then I did working on the gameplay. That said, I'm not very good at math, but I still believe that it should be easier than this.
Anyways, that's my rant, I would love to hear other people's opinions.
Hi everyone.
Playing around with the new mouse control feature of PICO8 I got the idea of a "1869" style game.
Remember "1869" on Amiga? It's a trading game. You ship around and buy and sell goods.
This is a very early stage but somehow I got stuck on my way using tables.
Perhaps someone can give me a clue?
A pico-8 version of a puzzle game I made a few years ago on mobile.
Have fun!
Pico-8 Word Processor
As someone extremely fond of retroactively useless technology, I thought I'd take the time to make an instantly obsolete piece of software. This is the Pico-8 Word Processor, the text editor you never knew you needed (because you don't).
In seriousness, I think this project would work well to keep away distractions when writing. It strips writing down to the bare essentials, almost like writing on a typewriter. No superfluous fluff here; only the written word.
This is my first Pico-8 published project, so let me know what you think or if you can think of any additions. In the future, I'd love to create a version compatible with non-keyboarded hardware (see below) and to include more calming classical music (like clair de lune)
Features:
- 27 characters per line, 13 lines per screen; all in a stylish, yet readable font
- Supports both uppercase and lowercase letters
- Day/Night modes, included BGM, and toggleable key clicking noises to make the experience just that slight touch nicer
- When finished, export your text to a .txt file for further editing
Credits:
- daniel linssen for the font (m3x6) and @merwok for converting it to Pico-8
- @RobbyDuguay for the BGM
- @Gruber for the key clicking sound from their sfx pack
Virtual Keyboard
By modifying code from afburgess, I was able to make a quick mod that allows non-keyboarded hardware to run this software. In the future, I'd like to figure out a way to make typing a little quicker. Maybe I should move the keys around some more... Anyway, please give me any feedback you have!
Credit to @afburgess for the base code of the virtual keyboard.
"KNUTIL" is a library for PICO-8 that contains functions that are frequently used in the games I have created.
I've kept the functions that I eventually needed in my production.
In this cart, I show you how the scene functions work with animations.
Z key: Execute the order command.
Up/Down: Select the order command.
SCENE MANAGER controls and replaces the order in which functions are called with a small number of tokens by using consecutive string instructions.
The generated SCENE can register a global function as an ORDER.
One of the registered ORDERS is retrieved by SCENE and the process is repeated for the specified length.
When the processing is finished, it repeats the processing of the next ORDER.
This is expected to facilitate the planning of the performance.
Using SCENE
ORDER COMMANDS
Create a function for ORDERS.
Run each SCENE.
ORDER function
Properties of ORDER
Functions other than scenes
There is one in this library that I have already posted.
HTBL
VDMP
Functions not explained (I will post them some other time)
PICO-8 0.2.2b 0.2.2c is now up on lexaloffle, Humble, itch.io, and for PocketCHIP.
This is a bug-fixing patch for 0.2.2 -- see that thread for a summary of recent features.
0.2.2b does have a few small features though. You can now use a .lua.png extension with the EXPORT command to get the source code (all tabs) of your cartridge printed out to an image with roughly A4 dimensions. This is intended mostly for visualisation purposes, and lines are cropped to 188 pixels (47 characters) wide. The jelpi demo source code is bigger than I imagined!
EXPORT JELPI.LUA.PNG |
dots3d.p8 is much cuter
There are also some new extcmd() commands for setting screenshot output filenames, and the window title (intended for exported binaries).
I've also added a way to force the pause menu to come up, even if the cartridge is blocking it with poke() trickery. Simply hold the pause button for half a second, and the menu should come up no matter what (it's implemented at a low level). This might be useful when using SPLORE from a sofa, and a keyboard isn't available to terminate stubborn cartridges.
Full list of changes: