Hey,
Gideon and I have been working on our first Pico-8 game over the past week and we are close to finishing and submitting the cartridge to the BBS. I love the development environment and I think it represents a perfect sweetspot between limitation and flexibility. The workflow is great!
That said, I would love to be able to do more with the alt-key, specifically:
using alt + left-click in order to simulate a right-click
This would make working with pico-8 a lot easier with Wacom tablets and Laptops with just a touchpad (depending on your setup, right-clicking can be complicated) Also it would neatly behave like Photoshop in the sprite editor then (in Photoshop you do color-picking by alt-clicking).
workspace switcher with alt+1 (code editor), alt+2 (sprite editor) etc.
It would be a nice addon to the current alt+left-right switcher as sometimes it can be a huge timesaver to be able to directly switch between two modes without having to either move the mouse to the top or getting both hands on the keyboard (as it is necessary with the the alt-left/right-switcher). IRSSI and several other terminal based apps have both kinds of switcher modes and they work great in parallel.
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Hi guys,
Here is my second cartridge for Pico-8.
The game can be summarized as "Nibble meets breakout".
You control a worm-like character and you must reach the top of the wall. The play field scrolls down when you eat a nugget. If you don't climb fast enough, you can die by the raising deadly water. When you are blocked in a dead end, you can shrink your worm using button 1.
You cannot destruct directly the bricks. You must rely on balls to do it. The balls can be blocked or pushed by your worm, but beware of not blocking them in a corner, or they will explode!
It is a Work in Progress, and there is still a lot of work to do (and I have plenty of cool idea for it :-) ).
But it is already in a state good enough to share it with you.
There is only very basic sounds for the moment. I suggest to turn the volume off ;-)
[b]Update v0.2
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I'm working on a tune that features a lot of quick arpeggios, so I had to sequence it with double the intended speed so I could squeeze in all the note data. This uses up sfx slots fairly quickly, which wouldn't be such a problem if sound effects past no. 32 were usable as tracks in the music editor.
In case this isn't feasible, it would be nice if the documentation at least noted this limitation. I ended up using only two channels for one of the tunes in Let's Karate, since I had already used up some of the first 32 sfx slots for game sounds.
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Hi!
A fast question....
I try Pico-8 cartritges published in web using Galaxy S4....
but
The keyboard not work...
Any plans to fix it?
or
Any plans to release a pico-8.APK?
Thanks in advance.
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UPDATE: final version
Goal is to get the Lemming to the small green tree (to the next screen).
He is able to climb 1 block unit.
Since he has no parachute, he dies if the cliff is higher than 2 units.
Buttons:
arrows .. move/rotate block
c .. drop block
x .. restart level (if no chance of winning)
3 Levels for now.
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I've run into a problem where nested menus are reading the same btnp input and I was wondering: is there a simple way to clear or ignore all the input until the next frame?
There is probably a different way to do it, but my code is kafkaesque and has gotten progressively worse as I've tried to solve this problem, so I felt it in poor taste to subject you to that.
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Small twitch based platformer I made to familiarize myself with Pico-8 coding.
Left and right arrow keys move the character.
Up arrow allows the character to jump, either holding the key or pressing the key once more in the air allows for a slightly less powerful double jump.
z allows the character to grapple to a green block. Hold z to remain grappled.
The grapple hook is designed to emulate a spring, by pressing left and right the character can swing, by pressing the down arrow key you can tug on the rope to help build momentum to reach higher areas.
Feedback is welcome and much appreciated.
Credit: Collision code is heavily based on the methods used in Jelpi with modifications.
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My program is 14524 characters so far (when saved), but when I copy and paste its own contents back into itself this count increases to 15298. It decreases again on save.
This is an increase of 774, which is also the number of newlines present in my code. Maybe windows is adding returns to each newline, causing the discrepancy? I'm experiencing this copying from Sublime Text into the pico-8 editor, and also selecting all on the editor, then copying and pasting over all contents.
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I figured that I should probably do this since there's a cover of Megablast for practically every sound chip ever. I think it's a law or something, and I don't want zep to get in trouble with the computer police.
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Hello, i'm rather new to this and I am having issues firing a projectile when I press the z key. This is in a simple game I am making. My code is below:
x = 64 y = 64 function _update() if (btn(0)) then x=x-1 end if (btn(1)) then x=x+1 end if (btn(2)) then y=y-1 end if (btn(3)) then y=y+1 end if (btn(4)) then shoot(x,y) end end function _draw() circfill(x,y,7,8) end function shoot(bullx,bully) local x = bullx local y = bully local k = y while k <= 128 do k = k + 1 end end |
Currently It just flys off the screen super quick, how would i slow it down?
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Standard 9/6 Jacks or Better video poker
Controls should hopefully be straightforward (directional buttons and primary action button, e.g. Z), with the following notes:
-Press up to scroll up to the pay table above the play area.
-Secret quick-draw feature: After holding, you may press the secondary action button (e.g. X) to instantly "draw"
Note: This game makes use of audio/video synchronization (particularly in the intro) that seems to not work very well on the web version (on my computer at least; maybe you will have better results) and it looks/sounds way better if you run it in the native PICO-8 client.
Good luck :)
EDIT 2015-06-11: Updated for PICO-8 0.1.1 compatibility
EDIT 2017-06-16: Fixed coin-count display bug, adjusted several sfx volumes to avoid distortion
EDIT 2018-04-10: Added support for some things that did not exist in PICO-8 when I first made this: saving to cartdata (and "cash out" menu option to reset), button glyph on title screen
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Either P1 button (X/Z by default) will start/restart the game, arrows move. You'll see that the circles follow you in a very predictable pattern. All you have to do is use that pattern to your advantage by making them overlap. Enjoy!
In 2011 I threw together a silly game called Just Evasion using OpenGL and some dodgy C while waiting for a flight. It was my first proper game, in that it was the first game I'd ever felt was remotely finished. Later that summer I made a Flash version of it using Adam Saltsman's Flixel library. Since I've started messing about with PICO-8 I have had many vague game ideas that didn't go anywhere, but one night I thought of trying to remake this old thing again and so here we are. It doesn't ramp up in difficulty the way the original did, but the core stuff is the same. And it was my first attempt at spriting up some letters, which was great fun and brought me back to the old days designing typefaces on copybooks at school. Vibrant times.
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This works:
t = {}
t[1] = 'a'
t[2] = 'b'
print(t[1]) -- outputs "a"
print(t[2]) -- outputs "b"
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whereas this does not:
t = {}
--t[1] = 'a'
t[2] = 'b'
print(t[1]) -- outputs "false"
print(t[2]) -- outputs "false" (expected: "b")
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nor does this:
t = {}
t[1] = 'a'
--t[2] = 'b'
t[3] = 'c'
print(t[1]) -- outputs "a"
print(t[2]) -- outputs "false"
print(t[3]) -- outputs "false" (expected: "c")
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So apparently if numbers are used as table indexes and they don't start at 1 and proceed contiguously, the rest of the table (after the break in continuity) behaves as if it's empty...or something.
It works as expected in normal Lua 5.2.3 btw
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Adjustments to the collision detection.
A simple game to test the waters. Mostly playable. A few bug fixes and polish left. :]
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A local multiplayer competitive game.
Paint the most area of the floor with the color you are assigned to win.
Catch bombs to paint large area at a time.
[b]Controls
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Update: tweaked the cooldown
just a simple demonstration of the undocumented feature of stat(x)
using the demo musics of course
feel free to use it in your music carts :D
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How do you achieve smooth character movement?
Normally, you'd take a speed value and multiply it by a delta time value so your character moves the same speed regardless of the clock speed. Pico-8 is frame limited to 30 FPS, but it still seems like my character jumps and hops by small amounts if I press and hold a button down.
Is it the right way to put: if btn(0, 0) x += 1.3 (or whatever) in the _update() and then spr(1, x, y) in the _draw()?
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I'm not a lua expert, so I can be totally mistaken on this - please correct me if so.
I can't see any reason why a variable should be global in pico-8... Defining as a local outside any functions, makes it accessible from that file (or module? or what is the correct lua terminology for this?) and since pico-8 only has one code file, that is essentially makes it global.
And as far as I know locals are way faster in lua than globals.
So I suggest just removing the keyword, and making everything local by default.
If there is a reason for globals, I would still ask for local-by-default, and suggest introducing a "global" keyword - just to save on the code size.
Again, I don't know much about the inner workings of lua/pico-8, so just ignore this if it doesn't make any sense. :)
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