Just making sure Zep sees this; When 0.1.4 comes out and we can type the \ character, be sure to have the \" and \' escape sequences detected so that the Lua preprocessor / syntax highlighter / token counter thing realizes the string isn't supposed to be terminated at that point.
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Any chance you could work a little wizardry with Emscripten and get those 64-bytes of save data to actually store somehow in the HTML5 player? With Emscripten's virtual filesystem you could mount a cdata folder from localStorage or something, right?
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Currently, ls() returns nil, and then after the program is finished executing it finally prints out a list of files to the console. Making it's output completely inaccessible to the cart program.
Can it return an array of file name strings or something please? Maybe if you call ls(1) or ls(true) or something instead, if it's too hard to separate from user console input?
This is important for... reasons. We're totally planning something fun involving arbitrary carts.
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Do a little sanity checking, eh? print() by itself crashes Pico-8 0.1.3 standalone because there is no first argument.
The web client seems fine, though.
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Space limit is a little 3D demo (so no gameplay yet) inspired by Kerbal Space Program.
If it's too slow in your browser, try directly in Pico8
There is nothing in the sprite/tile data, the code is (realy) messy and triangles can only be monochrome.
For this project, I made a blender exporter (based on the .ply one) that can be found here
I also made a mesh converter to vertex/index string (one byte per location, scale limited to 2.5 around origin) to import in Pico 8. I made it in Javascript (If some people want it, I could port it in the blender exporter instead).
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Hello everyone :)
I just made it public on pico-8 Slack's group. A couple weeks ago I created an api to use on my experiments with PICO-8. I used Kimono to scrape the BBS every 24 hours.
I had not made it public yet because I don't know if Zep'd be ok with that... and sometimes I'm too lazy to ask hahah. So hey @zep, are you ok with that? It makes just a few requests per day to the BBS... It's updated every 24 hours and makes one request per carts page. So I don't think it's gonna hurt the BBS's performance.
So here's the json api and here's a page with (hopefully) all carts.
And finally here's the api docs.
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Hello, world !
I have been thinking about setting up a Slack team for PICO-8.
I noticed after searching with Google there's a team created already, but it seems to be dead, and no one in the IRC knew about it.
:: EDIT
New invite system implemented. Get your invite here: JOIN !
There's also the good old invite system JTE is running on her server: (alt) JOIN !
Eternal love (<3) to JTE for running the invite automation system, and asterick for helping to set it up.
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With Zep's RLE compression thingy you can now store an absurd amount of graphical data. This means short FMVs are technically possible, if unwieldy.
I don't know what to use it for besides converting porn GIFs to Pico-8's palette and playing them over an energetic chiptune backbeat, though?
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UPDATE: Hey look! I updated it (above), and fixed the bug where when the laser made contact with the enemy, it spazzed out for a second. Enjoy!(?)
Here's my first publicly-available game made with the Pico-8! It's a space shooter where you play as a Nroctrion star-cruiser, and have to fend off the evil cihptnueians and save your home-world.
CONTROLS:
Left and Right Arrow Keys to move
Z to fire
NOTE: This is an alpha build of the game. (Very few) new features will be coming.
Also, feedback is highly appreciated! Thanks :)
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Instead of just raising the script token limit, I propose that the token limit is fine. It's how they're counted that actually needs more polish. Here is one proposal for what to do:
Make commas, parenthesis, and periods/colons equivalent to whitespace.
They're actually abstractions denoting a specific correlation of two points of data, not a symbol in and of itself. If you're calling a function with two arguments, "funcname(arg1, arg2)" is actually 3 useful points of data, "funcname", "arg1", and "arg2", not 6 just because there are arguments at all.
Look to assembly code for inspiration. At the assembly level, which translates quite directly to bytecode, do you write "function, begin_arguments, argument1, argument_seperator, argument2, end_arguments" as that many different individual tokens? I don't think so. :P It's more like "push argument1, push argument 2, jump to function" isn't it? Three commands, three script tokens.
If you want to go farther, you could consider doing the same for math operations and the string concatenation operator. In the case of "x = y + 7", you have two things being added together and a third thing holding the resulting value, right? That can still be only 3 tokens, instead of 5. "x += 1" would be two tokens instead of three.
And if you want to make local variables usable, ever, make an exception for the word "local" so it doesn't count against you. :P
At that point, the token limit might actually be too [i]high
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I'll admit that I'm a bit new to PICO-8 and don't have a good handle on how it's built. Maybe other language support isn't trivial.
That said, I'd love to be able to use a subset of something like Ruby, Javascript, or Python in addition to the current Lua based subset.
Is there a chance we'll see other languages in the future?
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Hi everyone!
I'm an absolut fan of Pico-8 and I spend a lot of hours reading this forum, many of them in my smartphone or my tablet.
I love running cartridges when I have a free time (without the possibility of use my computer). And, I can't do anything because in mobiles phones or tablets we can't take a virtual keyboard when we are running a game so...
Can you add an option to pico webplayer in order to give a solution to this?
Or... have anyone any idea how to play cartridges with smartphones?
Thanks a lot!!
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Star Wars 1.0.
I gave permission for you guys to use, but please do not post a level with attached items until this game is not WIP and fully running.
Star wars 1.0 is only f
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Got pico today.
Spent the past few hours writing a bunch of matrix math in lua. To celebrate I made a perspective-correct rotating cube :D
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Hi,
i've been thinking about something for pico-8 that could be nice: Having a kind of online high score rankings by game on the website.
Let's say the easiest way to do it first would be just in the web player on that site with logged in users.
API can be as minimal as score(value). The advantage of the opaque function is that it can redirect score anywhere (online db for webplayer, local file when ran from pico-8 sdk, silently ignored...)
This kind of feature is cool as it gives game dev more feedbacks on their games as well as increasing their replay value. Plus the community will benefit from that as it gives another axis to consolidate it.
I'm aware it is not that trivial to implement and it requires some work but I love the idea!
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Hello everyone.
I bought pico8 like a week ago after my friend kept linking me awesome stuff on the forum here. The "exercise" and "now is fornever" ones were particularly inspiring to me.
On the weekend I sat down to make this scrolling background thing and then I just kept running with it. It's mostly a ton of lines, circles, and the mod operator. There isn't much point to it. You can press left and right to change speed, press up to randomise the palette, and down to reset those changes.
EDIT: 42 stars!
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