Hey all, I have some music and sound effects in mp3 format (they are already 4-track chip tunes) that I need recreated in Pico-8! They don't have to be 100% true to the original, but I'd prefer if they were as close as possible. I've got a game that's deep into development and should be completed within the next week or two, and would love to put your name in the credits! There are about 18 mp3s in total, most of them are just small sound effects, and 6 or 7 of them are short pieces of music.
If you're interested, just reply here and I'll send you a link to the mp3 files. Thanks!
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I just came across moonscript the other day. It's a sort of coffeescript-esque language that compiles to Lua. It has a lot of nifty features -- including arrow functions, which is what sold me.
So I wrote a tool that allows you to watch a .moon file and pipe it into the lua part of a .p8 cartridge. It's not thoroughly test and probably only works on OS X, but I've been personally enjoying writing moonscript in Sublime Text 3 and watching PICO-8 automatically reload on save :)
I'll drop the link here in case anyone finds it useful or intriguing: PICOMOON
Cheers!
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Manged to get 16 frames of full motion (if chunky) video compressed into here before running into the limits of the compressed cart size. Frames are stored as run-length encoded images, with only the difference between frames being noted/redrawn.
I used a custom python script and some elbow grease (file renaming and bulk resizing) to get the images converted into the string format.
-Electric Gryphon
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A mini-horror game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "The Music of Erich Zann."
Contains pixelated blood and carnage.
Version 1.1 fixes issue with restart.
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Hi all,
I've been looking at Pico-8 games on itch.io, and there seems to be a variety of different ways to post our games there.
For example here, it's nice and clean, no borders:
https://bluesweatshirt.itch.io/inward-expansion
Here there's a visible border around the Pico-8 cartridge:
https://bluesweatshirt.itch.io/man-helsing
And here it's tight, but there are the controls on the bottom:
https://bluecandlegames.itch.io/eyeboss
Is there anyone with experience on itch.io who'd be willing to share some tips for posting Pico-8 cartridges there?
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Allow me to preface this by saying that I'm new to Pico-8 and Lua, but have already fallen in love with it. I've already begun following the community on the BBS, subreddit, and Twitter, and I see a lot of questions about how to perform specific tasks that are necessary for almost every game. Anyone who has ever used a game engine previously may have had a lot of the basic things such as controls, animation, collision detection, or even AI handled for them, so they may not know how to roll their own code for such things.
I'm currently working on my first Pico-8 game, and have decided to document the process, and how I personally overcome various problems. Do know that my way is definitely not the only way - there may be solutions that work better, perform better, have smaller token counts, or are more elegant in general. These are just the solutions that I came up with. There isn't really any 'right' or 'wrong' per se, as long as it gets the job done, with the exception of 'lower token count = better' due to the limitations of the system. So, I'm going to try to solve these problems in the smallest possible token count that I can come up with.
[b]Movement:
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I've seen some questions about how to do collision detection in Pico-8, so figured I'd make another bare-bones demo, this one demonstrating collision detection with map tiles and/or world bounds. The function itself is 24 lines and 125 tokens, and includes flags for turning collisions on or off on an object (such as the player). Here's the full function:
function cmap(o)
local ct=false
local cb=false
-- if colliding with map tiles
if(o.cm) then
local x1=o.x/8
local y1=o.y/8
local x2=(o.x+7)/8
local y2=(o.y+7)/8
local a=fget(mget(x1,y1),0)
local b=fget(mget(x1,y2),0)
local c=fget(mget(x2,y2),0)
local d=fget(mget(x2,y1),0)
ct=a or b or c or d
end
-- if colliding world bounds
if(o.cw) then
cb=(o.x<0 or o.x+8>w or
o.y<0 or o.y+8>h)
end
return ct or cb
end
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This is a very simple animation function that anyone can use in their games. It's a bare-bones demo to keep everything as simple as possible. The function itself is only 14 lines and 74 tokens, and works like this:
anim(object, start frame, number of frames, speed (in frames per second), [flip])
In the demo, the object is the player, but it can be anything. Start frame is where the animation to be played begins (so in this case, moving left/right starts on frame 6, so we have anim(player,6,[..])). Number of frames is how many frames in that animation to play. We have 3, so anim(player,6,3,[..]). Speed is how fast the animation should play in frames per second (I have it set to 10 here). Lastly, [b]flip
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Don't know if this is related to the recent audio fixes, but ever since then, I have not been able to load PICO-8 carts in Safari. When trying to load, the output to the console is:
TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'audio_context.createScriptProcessor') fpico8_wa4.js:1 dipico8_wa4.js:619 bpico8_wa4.js:620:177 Aepico8_wa4.js:621:145 (anonymous function)pico8_wa4.js:622:323 |
Safari 9.0.3
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3
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So, I was reading through the First Pico 8 Zine and found there was a paragraph about a sprite editor called poido. I've been looking for it and can't seem to find it. Can anyone help?
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I was making a game and i don't understand how collision works thanks.
EDIT: I have read the collision demo and i was wondering if there is a less usage way to do that
I don't want to loose all my tokens.
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Difficulty: 2/5 to 6/5
single player
I recomend the use of a controler or the key-mouse control setting
warning: the tazer weapon will break the game on higher dificulties
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Press the up/down arrow keys
As the title states!
This isn't optimized at all, an exercise for the reader.
I drew the letters myself, as sprites, hence their existence in
the sprite sheet. Those are so you can swap either/or, and trade
sprites for code space and performance.
Have fun!
I threw the file on github as well
p.s The CC license isn't really applicable but I wasn't sure if NOT selecting it would imply you can't use it at all and now I can't edit that out it seems. The github repo has it as MIT license - you can do whatever you want with this!
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Does anybody know if the PICO-8 typeface is available as a regular font anywhere? I guess it‘s coded differently as a regular font in PICO-8 so someone would have to recreate it to use outside.
I want to create a game jam poster and of course it would look great to use the 5x3 characters for that, in print.
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Here's a recent interesting project which is completely unrelated to Pico-8.
http://superpowers-html5.com
It's an HTML5 game engine. More importantly, it's a free and open-source web-based development IDE. That is to say, instead of using Superpowers IDE to make Unity-like Superpowers games, you can add a plug-in to your Superpowers server to add additional project types, including (officially supported, in fact) LÖVE games and static webpages.
Superpowers is a real-time multi-user collaborative development environment unlike anything I've ever seen before, albeit still very much in its infancy. We should seriously consider adding Pico-8 cartridge support to it, as an alternative to using Pico-8's built-in IDE.
It would take a bit of effort, but with the result, you'd basically have the ability for any number of developers to simultaneously log onto a hosted Superpowers server, upload scripts and sprites, and download and run the resulting combined cartridge from the server in real time.
Superpowers is pretty much designed for small teams working together on game jam entries with strict time limits, getting all the work together immediately in real-time as individual files are changed and saved, without having to worry about committing and merging changesets like you would with Git or other collaboration methods.
... I don't know, just a passing thought. Probably wouldn't be worth it, considering how difficult it would be to manage Pico-8's arbitrary limits in a development environment meant to handle limitless modern PC games.
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What is it?
It's not a game, but rather a framework for a specific genre of games ala Pac-Man and Burgertime. It's a complete skeleton framework with all of the basic functionality to create these types of games.
Features:
- A sample map with collision detection
- Outside of map bounds = collision; nothing can move out of bounds
- A player control system with automated assisted controls (it's difficult to line up exactly with a new corridor, so the controls will auto-correct to anticipate and compensate for this when a collision is detected)
- Enemy AI and movement in "oldschool" style; it does not use A* or other complex pathfinding algorithms, but instead evaluates the closest next direction to move in when it detects an intersection, which is what the oldschool games did.
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