Note: this cart has been superseded by Pico de Pon: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=74540#p
v1.02 notes:
- Add more celebration sfx (trumpets) for big chains, depending on chain reaction length
- One-player scoring is scaled by the initial difficulty selection
- No garbage blocks fall in easy mode
- Fixes crashing and correctness bugs (Thanks everyone for testing!)
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I've heard of this engine and it's incredibly awesome.
Been planning to buy it but it would work if i buy Pico-8 instead of Voxatron (which it comes with Pico-8)? I'm gonna learn some LUA with this thing. :P
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Here's my Ludum Dare submission, "Moss Covers Everything".
This started out as "Qix in the dungeon" and grew into a thing of its own. LD being what it is I was running out of time and energy around the point I finished the gameplay mechanics so there aren't many levels or things to interact with (and no sounds at all), but I hope you enjoy what's there.
While I didn't actually end up taking much from it, Hyaku Man Ton no Bara Bara / The Million Ton Breakup, a Japan-only PSP game that's like Qix with airships, was a big inspiration. Here's an ad for it.
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decided to try out pico-8 for an animation i wanted to procedurally. enjoy :*
1.1 fixed a few timing and text formatting issues. it is now finished!
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The music editor in Pico-8 only works in groups of 32 counts. This makes using triplets, or writing in triple time (3/4) very inefficient. If you loop a 3-count pattern, the music editor will loop it up to 32-counts, then restart. The only workaround is to not use loops when composing in multiples of three, but this takes up way to much space. For a future update, maybe the ability to edit the number of counts in the music editor? If I could have changed the counts from 32 to say, 24 or 36, it would have saved lots of work and memory. Does that make sense?
Another quick observation, though I don't think it has an easy fix: Gradual, linear tempo changes are also memory hogs. The title music from ALttP required 2/3 of the music allotment, even though it's only 20 seconds long (https://soundcloud.com/gruber99/sets/the-legend-of-zelda-alttp-pico)
Hope this is helpful!
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This is my Pico-8 remake of Hyrule Castle from Zelda ALttP (I recreated the entire soundtrack in Pico-8. https://soundcloud.com/gruber99/sets/the-legend-of-zelda-alttp-pico)
I'm happy to upload any other of the cartridges, just let me know!
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my attempt at a mariokart clone. Up to accelerate and z to use powerups.
Still some way to go but coming along nicely :)
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For LD#34, a game using the themes "Two button controls" and "Growing", as well as the rain theme I missed here. Because why not have three themes?
The engine and gameplay is done, though the later dance moves don't unlock yet. I'm thinking they'll activate at powerup points or after you grow 20 or so plants, though that's dependent on the still unfinished level designs.
Still to do post-jam: (and hopefully in the next 2-3 days)
- more puzzle designs
- music!
- win condition: grow 100 plants?
I'm a little disappointed that the special behaviors with planting on fires and shining sunlight to grow plants in rain and exorcise piranha plants didn't get into the jam demo, but they are coded and working well. You can debug the extra dance moves with Q for now, if you're interested.
I'm pretty happy with this project, especially how decent the pixel art I did in a couple hours looks. PICO-8 is really a good fit for gamejams.
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I want to do a de-make of "Another World", this game is built of many static screens (no scrolling) and the backgrounds are drawn using very creative, data efficient, free-form "polygons".
To increase the number of screens I can have, and match the free-form polygonal art style, it seems better to discard the tile map, and use the map data to store "screens" and each screen would store "polygon info". So it would just be the points for the polygons, or something simpler - maybe just indexes of known shapes and a colour value to apply to them, something like that.
However it's stored - it would be expensive to re-draw the entire thing every frame, so I would have to use the old school technique of;
- draw the background once,
- capture the area behind a sprite,
- draw the sprite,
- then to re-draw, paste the captured area back over it, adjust the sprite x,y and repeat
How do I prevent the normal re-draw, and how do I capture an area of the screen?
Any thoughts on my approach?
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Hi, I'm still learning about Pico-8.
Given that there is ONE map (count-em, one!), if a game wants to give the impression of a bigger world, it's going to have to resort to some old school techniques, yes?
A lot like how Mario on the NES was done by making levels out of "chunks" of tiles, eg. one chunk is a set of stairs with a gap in the middle, another is 2 platforms above each other, etc. Thus the level data can just be a serialised list of chunk indexes.
I ask because, for fun, I want to try making "de-makes" of classic games. One might be "Another World". I was coming up with a level storage format which might just be a series of types of shapes, or points, and draw the polygons to create a 2D image, much like the original did, but this would have to be plotted out once, and then I'd have to use old school method of; every frame, capturing the small screen area behind the player, drawing the player, then erasing the player with the stored screen area, apply the movement, and repeat. To avoid re-drawing the background every frame because it might be computationally expensive.
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Use the left and right arrows to move, x to shoot and z to shoot a bomb.
you only have two bombs so use them wisely.
colliding with other ships does 3 hearts of damage.
Week 5 of my weekly pico8 game project
You can find my blog here: quidditycode.com
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Had very little time for LD34 - made in a hurry :) Theme = growing.
- Navigate with [left]/[right]
- Shoot with action buttons [x] or [z]
The aim is to merge and grow the evil boxes in order to have one left - then it will collapse due to it's unbearable mass! (erm).
Whenever you hit a box it changes direction. The magnetic field is also activited and shown as a circle. When boxes have an active magnetic field and are close to eachother the bigger box will consume the smaller one.
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My entry for LD34.
I didn't really participated in this Ludum Dare (again)... I just started to do something on whim 3 hours before the deadline. So "Bean up" is what I managed to finish in that time. :)
Ohh, a link to the games LD page, in case somebody arrives from anywhere else than the LD site, and wants to vote (hehe) http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=36967
POST-COMPO VERSION:
If you came here to vote on Ludumdare, please play the original version!
If you are just here to play, then definitely play this post compo version. :) I worked on it a couple of more hours. Not that it means that I worked on it more time than any LD participiant :) I'm still nowhere near 48 hours - maybe around 5-6 I guess.
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Small game made for the Idle Thumbs Community Winter Wizard Jam. Created by Jonathan Decker and Ben Stryker. You play as a shitty wizard who just wants to drink his coffee in peace, but children keep mistaking him for Santa! Use the arrow keys to move and press 'Z' to temporarily turn small children into snowmen. Visit the game jam submission page
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