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Cart #18991 | 2016-02-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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Relive the joy of the 80's with some key mashing and marble gobbling. Feed those peckish pachyderms as fast as you can to win.

This is a two to four player, shoulder to shoulder kind of game.

Up Arrow: Red
Down Arrow: Yellow
Left Arrow: Blue
Right Arrow: Green

If anyone feels an urge to replace the music with something better, please be my guest.

--Electric Gryphon

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Cart #18987 | 2016-02-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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This awesome cartridge allows you to mine for a very long time.
Download the cartridge yourself, and edit the code! Inside are somethings you can edit, for a different charecter, if you want your charecter black, and some other cool configurations.

It's released as finished, but it will get big updates some times.

You can save your game too, so that's another reason to download it.

Download Game: http://adf.ly/1XZKLS

Guide on how to do simple hacks for the game: http://adf.ly/1XZSTd
Guide on how to do complex hacks for the game: http://adf.ly/1XZauL (how to make a block doesn't work)

TIPS:
Coal spawns after 12 meters deep - 10% chance spawning ( 1 in 10 )
Iron spawns after 40 meters deep - 5% chance of spawning ( 1 in 20 )
Gold spawns after 100 meters deep - 2.5% chance of spawning ( 1 in 40 )
Diamond spawns after 300 meters deep - 1.25% chance of spawning ( 1 in 80 )

Coal sells for 5c (c = coins)
Iron sells for 15c
Gold sells for 45c
Diamond sells for 135c

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A build of PICO-8 0.1.5 is now available for Raspberry Pi! Check your updates page or look in your Humble library under the Linux downloads section.

It works in fullscreen under either X Windows or directly from the terminal (using directfb). For speed, the default resolution is 280,280; you can set this with the -width and -height switches:

pico8 -width 720 -height 480

Known issues:

  • After quitting, keypresses during the session are sometimes dumped to terminal (annoying if you quit by typing shutdown instead of CTRL-Q!)
  • Freeze on exit (observed on a zero)
  • Some math-heavy cartridges (e.g. /demos/cast.p8) don't run at full speed on first generation models.

There are two builds included in the archive. pico8 is compiled statically (so no need to install SDL2), and pico8_dyn dynamically loads libraries, in case you'd like to supply your own SDL2.

Have fun, and please post pictures if you get pico-8 running on any cute displays!

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Cart #18957 | 2016-02-25 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License
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My first excursion into PICO-8.

A game about chasing toddlers.

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Hey guys! This is just a little music test that I have been working on, I might make a piano thing or something, I was playing around with audio, got a little sketchy and came up with a few retro drum sounds, (NOTE: These are NOT the original sounds from my test, I accidentally overwrote the file & forgot to get the backup, so I just reprogrammed it, but it works similar enough to my original, so it's good, Enough talk, more compose! Play around with it, and put suggestions below! Also, if you want, remix it! But give credit to me please.

Cart #18952 | 2016-02-25 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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Cart #18936 | 2016-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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Photosensitivity warning: blinky as all fuck.

This is a hacky little Sierpinksi Carpet fractal implementation, with oscillating zooming and panning and random color changing, with a hacky shot at a Shepard Tone for the soundtrack.

Controls:

  • A sense of control over the universe is illusory.
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In the last few weeks we made a PICO-8 arcade for the Screenshake 2016 festival.
In our design we wanted to combine the comfort of playing the games using classic arcade controls with the ability for festival visitors to develop games as well. We also printed out some fanzines.

The arcade as shown at the festival:

Butterfly Demo Vine:

The design in SketchUp and the first prototype:

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girl like a dog
dog like a ball
ghost like a girl

girl dislike a ghost
ghost dislike a dog

arrow key >> move cursor
z key >> throw ball

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Cart #18924 | 2016-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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The beginnings of an Arkanoid clone, based on a nice pixel art mockup by @DavitMasia.

Controls:

  • left/right: move paddle
  • z: start; release ball
  • up: SECRET CHEATER LEVEL SKIP

Details:

This first version has the basic game loop -- break tiles with the ball, clearing the board will move to the next level -- but is missing just about everything else so far. No powerups, no enemies, no actual endgame (if you beat the last level, current #7, it just loops back to #1), no proper title screen, etc. Musical bits are dredged up from childhood memory and so are probably not spot on.

I hope to keep cracking away at it, get more of that added, but if anyone wants to have a go at doing so themselves they're welcome to it as well.

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Hi folks,
I've been wanting to make a handheld Pico-8 console, powered by a Raspberry Pi. I hadn't realised that the Raspi version wasn't available yet, but I thought I'd see if I could get it working anyway.

A company called Eltechs makes a product called Exagear Desktop which allows you to run x86 binaries on an ARM host - apparently it's about four times as fast as QEMU. I bought a license (which are only about £8 at the moment), but sadly it doesn't work because it seems Exagear Desktop doesn't support SDL :-P

I'll continue tinkering, but I suspect this route is a dead end until Eltechs adds OpenGL support.

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Cart #18912 | 2016-02-22 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License
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I finally got A* pathfinding working. I know it's already been done in PICO-8 but it was a good learning exercise. Now I hope to use it in a little point-and-click adventure.

Arrow keys: Move cursor
Z: Set the starting point
X: Set the goal
Z and X: Generate a random level

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Cart #18908 | 2016-02-21 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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My 2nd PICO-8 game.

[Cursor] to move.
[Z] to shot.
[X] to start.

Destroy the BOSS!

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Cart #19532 | 2016-04-01 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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A game about impractical architecture.

I wanted to see if I could make big levels by randomly connecting 16x16 tile chunks. If I can manage to optimize this thing a little bit, I'd like to add more items, monsters and map bits and consider adding local co-op (that would be pushing it, token-wise).

There are a few collision issues that might cause game-breaking failures.

In any event, I learned a ton. I'd love to hear what you guys think of it!

Quick Update: I removed some of the background clutter. It felt way too busy.


P1
z - attack
x - shield (if you have one)
left and right - move
up - jump
down - enter open doors

P2
w - attack
q - shield (if you have one)
s and f - move
e - jump
d - enter open doors

----v0.8.0-----
-skeletons now have shields
-skeletons will now stop, attack and block instead of just running around
-added red slimes that are slightly tougher for some variety

----v0.8.5----
-I've improved the collisions (still needs work!), so hopefully the player can't escape in ways they're not meant to.
-if item drops do manage to fly out of the map, they're destroyed instead of crashing the game
-player now only lunges forward during an attack if they are also defending (shield out)
-player continues to face the enemy if they are knocked back
-I reorganized a lot of the code and managed to shrink my token use from 7933 to 7018, so I've got more room to build new stuff. Still considering local 2player co-op
-Boom. The Pico-8 is rad.

----v0.8.6----
-I've added some new equipment
-fixed the player shield
-added code to start thinking about local co-op, but I'll have to consider some kind of new HUD to show both players equipment and health. If you want to mess with the early implementation, uncomment the init_object(player, 24, 112) functions on lines 742 and 754

----v0.9.5----
-tons of new stuff!
-still tweaking the collision detection against objects!
-local co-op!
-10 new map chunks!
-including new graveyard areas!
-some new equipment!
-exclamation points!

Unless any crazy bugs pop up that I just have to fix, I'll probably fill up the space I've saved for equipment, update the HUD and Death screens to work with 2 players and call this thing completed.

----v1.0.0----
-I think The Wee Dungeon now contains everything I'd hoped to implement. Time for a new project!

----v1.2.0----
-Maybe I lied about being done. Been thinking about the game and how much more I can squeeze into it
-hitpoints are shown on attacks
-there's now a progression to item drops, so you don't pick up weaker equipment
-spikes don't kill you immediately anymore if you have equipment (otherwise they do)
-added a few enemies
-probably created a few more bugs, we'll see!

----v1.2.2----
-inching ever closer to the token limit, i fixed the kickback that happens when you're touched by a monster.

After looking through one more time, I'm calling the Wee Dungeon done!

----v1.2.3----
revised the unfair trap room.

--Thanks as always for looking! Any and all feedback is most appreciated.

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Cart #18879 | 2016-02-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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My first PICO-8 game.
You avoid a block, and climb the goal.

[Left] [Right] to move.
[Up] to use Bomb.

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It would be handy if the map editor gave the value (probably sprite index) of the current cell down in the status bar where it shows X:002 Y:015.

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Cart #18837 | 2016-02-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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A simple tool to make playing around with the PICO-8 palette easier.
Arrow keys to change selection, Z or X or to pause/unpause the fade animation.
Fade charts and function by @cap_colors

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Hey, just thought I'd post this code in case anyone else finds it useful.

If you need a few extra sfx slots in your pico8 cart and can spare the code, here's a little thing that will load a sound into RAM. It takes a table of 168 4-bit values in the .p8 sfx format, and writes out a 68-byte sfx block into one of the sfx slots in memory.

It's a complete test program, tweak, adjust and reuse to your liking.

-- unpack a hex string into a
-- table of numbers.
function unhex(s,n)
 n = n or 2
 local t = {}
 for i = 1, #s, n do
  add(t, ('0x' ..
   sub(s, i, i+n-1)) + 0)
 end
 return t
end

-- unpack a data string
-- including two sounds
-- taken out of a p8 file.
sfxdata = unhex(
   '010800003c6751f473234731347'
.. '3006253c615006253c6050c6150'
.. '00000c615000000000000000000'
.. '000000000000000000000000000'
.. '000000000000000000000000000'
.. '000000000000000000000000000'
.. '000000010300003c63515073182'
.. '701f271232711c2711827113271'
.. '0e2710021124300243002430024'
.. '300243002430024300243002430'
.. '024300243002430024300243002'
.. '430024300243002430024300243'
.. '002430024300', 1)

-- load a new sound into sfx
-- memory at runtime.
--
-- arguments:
-- d = dest sfx slot 0 .. 63
-- s = source sfx number in
--     sfxdata table, 0-based
--     index. each sound is 168
--     values of the table.
-- note: sfxdata must exist as
--       a global or upvalue.
function loadsfx(d, s)
 local t = sfxdata
 d = 0x3200 + 68 * d
 s *= 168
 for i = 0, 3 do
  poke(d + 64 + i, t[s + i * 2 + 1] * 16 + t[s + i * 2 + 2])
 end
 for i = 0, 31 do
  local a = d + i * 2
  local b = s + i * 5 + 9
  poke(a, (t[b] * 16 + t[b + 1]) % 64 + t[b + 2] * 64)
  poke(a + 1, band(t[b + 2], 4) / 4 + t[b + 3] % 8 * 2 + t[b + 4] * 16)
 end
end

-- load sound 0 from sfxdata
-- into the sfx ram at slot #2.
loadsfx(2, 0)
-- play sfx slot 2.
sfx(2)

-- loop forever so we get
-- to hear the sound play.
while true do flip() end

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I just finished this micro game to send to my wife as an interactive Valentine's day card.

It is a little rough around the edges, but I don't have more time to work on it right now. There might be a update before today ends, or not.

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Some valentine experiment

Cart #18816 | 2016-02-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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Here is the first pass at the Pico-8 Flight Simulator in filled and shaded 3D.

Explore an expansive, mountainous world and avoid crashing.
(Simulation might be a stretch, as nothing about the aircraft physics is actually modeled... but you have to start somewhere.)

Controls:
Left / Right Arrow: Turn
Up / Down Arrow: Increase / Decrease Pitch

I was feeling down about the frame rate, but then I looked at videos of flight simulators from the late 80's and early 90's and that made me feel better :-D.

Changes:
--Fixed movement bug

Next tasks:
--Cockpit graphics
--More varied terrain
--Some sort of goal (perhaps travel from airport to airport and land... like a real flight sim...)

-Electric Gryphon

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