Pretty much like C64 allowed it. Changing the font would have few limitations compared to using spritedata:
- Each character would be 1-bit ONLY (e.g. pixel is either on or off)
- Changing characters will affect how code editor and command mode is rendered (mainly to give you live preview of your changes) so if you like writing in flowers and bushes, that's your problem ;).
This would allow to customize our games even more.
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This has been my little baby over the past week or so. It started with jotting down the train game by @PROGRAM_IX from the Pico-8 zine #1, and then making it my own. I ended up using over half my tokens, two sprite banks, and the entire map space. I will leave it to you to discover its mysteries. Playing alongside a warm beverage recommended.
v1.1: Small update to effectively double the rate you gain resources.
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Hello, I've got Pico-8 and playing around with it right now. However, when making music for the game, I've encountered a problem: when sounds have different speeds, they don't line up properly and there's a pause until slower one finishes playing. Well duh? But here's a thing: In "slower" sound I didn't use up all the lines and "actual" sound ends well before faster sound (background bass) plays out.
While I agree sometime pause may be important, I'd strongly prefer if "stop right there" effect would be added that stops sound on that specific line instead waiting until its "natural" completion (all lines played out).
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So I've found old pastebin with Pico-8 keys and apparently some of them still works.
:)
The only problem now is that I don't know how to get back to that page (closed that tab and it's hard to navigate this site).
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Hi guys:
I have a project that fits perfectly in PICO-8 because is an easy platformer for children. But I have a doubt that gives me two questions, because visual design is important in this game. It has HUGE sprites, but pixelated ones, for example, the protagonist is about 15x20 pixels, but I've envisioned him looking at x 1000% of zoom in a full HD monitor.
So for PICO8 I think he will show ok at x2 or x3. So how could I do this:
1) big sprite. build the srpite as 30x40 pixels heigth sprite. PICO could move sprites so big?
2) If not, make an engine with a camera that shows the game at x2 or x3 zoom. Is this possible?
Thanks.
Ah! one last question, is it possible to add a postprocessing filter to a game? for example, to have scanlines. That is semitransparent graphic that filters the screen.
Regards.
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Fight against wave after wave of hostile alien space droids to protect galaxy command from an invasion.
New Features:
- three different enemy types with individual behaviour
- added a shield to the ship, that recharges over time
- balanced the difficulty (made it a bit harder, since you have a shield now)
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CONTROLS:
- LEFT and RIGHT arrows to MOVE
- Z to shoot
This is my first pico-8 game :) Every time I tackle a new game dev tool I like to do my own game version of "Hello World" to learn the basics: a simple space shooter.
It features sprites, input, sfx, background music, score, etc.
Tomorrow I'll be posting a step-by-step tutorial on how to create it.
It's only one day tinkering with it, but I'm truly enjoying pico-8!
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Hi all,
I'm having a great time poking around Pico-8, and coming from the NES development world, a lot of the constrained programming makes sense. But my last sticking point is scrolling—I understand how maps work, and I can create a screen-to-screen transition effect by changing the offset into contiguous map data, but I can't figure out how to scroll smoothly 'across' map data. When I attach the camera to the player's position, I travel off the first map and into a weird glitchy void.
Does anyone have a simple example of how to implement scrolling? I've downloaded several example games, but everyone seems to have a different approach, and they are difficult to parse in a fully-functioning game.
Thanks!
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A new game by Luc for his brother Josh. A lot of help from Dad.
Keep running, don't hit blocks, slide under tunnels and catch those balloons!
Controls: Up (jump) and Down (slide)
High score at the moment is 245
(You might want to press Z)
And... Pico-8 is loads of fun!
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This bug seems to be specifically around up/down arrow key handling.
When typing in the editor, pressing the down arrow key and (while the arrow key is still held) pressing another key causes the editor to act like the down arrow key is pressed twice. The same behavior happens with up.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open some existing document in the code editor.
2) Press (and hold) the down arrow key.
3) Quickly after, press another key, such as delete.
Expected behavior:
The editor interprets the keystrokes as 'down arrow', 'delete'.
Actual behavior:
The editor interprets the keystrokes as 'down arrow', 'down arrow'.
Environment:
PICO-8 (Alpha) v0.1.1
Mac OS X 10.11 Beta (15A262e)
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Hi, it's my first day of tinkering with Pico-8, so bare with me.
Is there a way to use a external text editor to code? I miss my vim key bindings.
Thanks!
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This was driving me mad. Some tracks would play fine, others would have a clicking sound after all the notes.
The default instrument is 0, so right now you have to set the instrument of all empty spaces to be the same as the note before it (via shift-click or manually if there are instrument changes). I think the music code is switching over to the new instrument too early, and the change in height in the sound data is causing a pop.
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I'm building a simple game to play around with Pico-8 and having a great time so far. Nothing special but I decided to try out the map editor and place a few collision-enabled tiles around the screen.
There are a few things that are confounding me at present:
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the co-ordinate system in the map editor. Am I just missing the tooltip that tells you what the x/y is of a cel the mouse is presently over?
- Drawing a map to the screen. The pico8.txt file says I can use the map function to draw regions of the map to the screen. I can then use mget to get a tile out of the map and fget to get flags. I gathered this much from reading the jelpi source.
However I can't seem to figure out how the map co-ordinate space is mapped onto the screen co-ordinate space. Jelpi's collision code is very simple but I can't seem to replicate it; my screen space is off from the map space and I can't figure out how they line up or translate from one to the other (ie: my player is in screen co-ordinates and I need to use a bare-bones AABB search along the X axis to find collision-enabled tiles.
I feel like I'm just missing some key concept here (could be that it's also pretty late).
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I wanted to try some PICO-8 cartridges...
And I just bought this new mini gamepad...
So I thought it would be fun to get it working with PICO-8! :D
The gamepad is a small, keyring size bluetooth controller. It costs around £3 on Amazon.co.uk
It's really meant for Android and iOS, and has various modes of button configuration. However, when connected to my iMac it's seen as an iCade controller (as it is on iOS).
I used ControllerMate OS X app to remap the iCade controls to cursors+z+x+shift+esc. And it works great!
Here's the setup file: http://cl.ly/290U3s2z3I0w
Maybe there's similar software for Windows & Linux to use this little gamepad? Maybe PICO-8 could add iCade support so we don't have to use external software?
Anyway! That is my nice little PI-CO-NTROLLER for PICO-8
:)
If you want to try this, feel free to ask questions!
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Recently I started playing with raycasting and I immediately wanted to create a real game with it, so here is first preview of my 3D suqare dungeon.
V0.2 features:
- wall text system
- portal system
- ground/ceiling color can change in locations
- item system (food+gold)
- gui (health, gold, experience/level, compass)
Notable bug: when you try to read text that is not defined it's id will popup on screen and game will be stopped.
V0.1 features:
- raycasting engine with dynamic rendering quality for smooth movement
- collisions based on tile flags
- 16x16 pixels textures
- 8x16 pixels transparent sprites rendered using simple (column based) z-buffer
- basic npc system that allows random movement of monsters around map
Controls: arrows for movement
Original 3d experiment thread is here.
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Simple ray-caster experiment.
It's not perfect, but it's kinda working and I hope it can serve as starting point for some awesome 3D games - especially I am thinking about some cool dungeon/rpg, that would be awesome!
Controls: arrows to move
Update 1.1:
- added fish-eye effect reduction
- added dynamic quality settings (when camera moves, quality is lowered)
- draw distance, step & quality setting can be adjusted in code
Older versions:
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Hi zep! Just a small suggestion, but I'm finding the low-resolution cursor movement really quite awkward to use when I'm so comfortable with existing graphics software on the PC.
Would it be possible (as an optional setting) to either:
a) detach the in-app cursor from the 128x128 grid by creating some special rendering code independent from the console display?
b) hide the in-app cursor and show the system cursor instead?
What are others' opinions on this? I suppose it's not a major issue for most people, and I completely understand if you don't want to do it, to preserve the style/feel of the console. :)
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