Hi, I've been looking through the Pico-8 manual, and found this:

The bottom half of the spritesheet and bottom half of the map occupy the same memory.

What uses can this have? I can't really think of anything personally but there must be some.

Pac-Man clone.
Move with arrow keys.
Chomp the food!
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Chomp Chick 0.01

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Chomp Chick 0.01

by PixelPiledriver

Cart #25629 | 2016-07-20 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

2

3-layer Parallax Code for Side Scrolling Games 1.0

by andylatham82

Cart #25597 | 2016-07-20 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

11

More complete instructions can be found in the header of the code.

I hope somebody finds it useful!

:)

Mechfight - Soon to be an actual fight! 0.101

by Aerlock

Cart #25595 | 2016-07-20 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

1

Thanks to @otemoto_stinger and his Grand Prix game I was finally able to get the background to move with each step. I also cribbed what little enemy code i have in this game from him as well.

BuzzKill 1.4

by morningtoast

Cart #buzzkill-0 | 2019-03-04 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

103

BuzzKill is a classic arcade style shooter. Stop the onslaught of killer bees using your smoke and fireballs.

Features

• 10 levels of tough, bee-killing action
• High score saving
• Unlockable endless mode

Controls

• Arrows move left/right
• Z shoots fireballs
• X blows smoke

Gameplay
You must clear all bees, hives and honeycombs to advance levels.

Attacking uses power. The more power you have, the faster your shots. Stop firing to regenerate power. Keep an eye on your power meter.

Blow smoke to freeze honeycombs, slow bees and block shots. You can only shoot honeycombs when they're frozen.

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I often browse the pico-8 forums on my mobile. On my phone (Samsung S4), I have to squint like a maniac because the contents of the pages are not rescaled by the browser, which they would be if the following viewport meta was on each page:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />

Can the person responsible for these forums (and web site in general) add that so that I can go back to "squintless" reading. :)

Cheers
Alex

Anyone know of any Pico-8 merchandise available for sale?

I want a Pico-8 logo sticker for my car. Also saw a P8 logo shirt on twitter, wasn't sure if that's official or just a one-off some dude made.

Discovery, or The Future is in the Past

For a few months I've been chewing on the idea of developing a 8 bit style game to run on Raspberry Pi alongside old ROMS from major game developers. I was thinking the idea was original, but after some reflection I realize I must have picked it up somewhere...

I ordered a C.H.I.P (well okay a couple of them) back in like November and read up on the PocketCHIP about the same time. While reading about PocketCHIP I read, and probably even watched some videos, about the Pico-8 fantasy console. I think that was my first exposure to Pico-8.

This is when I think I internalized the idea of a "brand new" pixelated "game engine" for developing games that run on low end hardware.

I am so glad that Zep and Lexaloffle did the hard work and developed such a cool platform for others to play in.

[h2]Learning Pico-8 Development

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Tile Streaming

by andylatham82

Cart #25546 | 2016-07-19 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

2

Hi,

I'm a bit of a beginner where programming is concerned, but I'm trying to work out how best to create an infinite scrolling background for a side-scrolling shooter game.

I figured that the way to achieve this would be to make a screen full of sprites and move them to the left, deleting them once they are off the screen and replacing them with new sprites on the right. I have managed to achieve this, but I don't think the performance is that great. It doesn't feel very smooth.

Am I doing it the right way? Is there a better way?

Thanks for any help you guys can give!

--tile scrolling

function _init()
	tile_h={} --horizontal tile strip

	--spawn 16 tiles in strip
	for i=0,16 do
		spawn_tile(i*8,0)
	end
end

function _update()
	foreach(tile_h,update_tile)
end

function _draw()
	cls()
	for i=0,16 do
		foreach(tile_h,draw_tile)
	end
end

function update_tile(t)
	t.x-=1 --move tile to left

	--if tile off edge of screen
	if t.x<-8 then
		del(tile_h,t) --delete tile

		--add new tile to right
		spawn_tile(16*8,0)
	end
end

function spawn_tile(x,y)
	local t={}
	t.x=x
	t.y=y
	add(tile_h,t)
end

function draw_tile(t)
	--draw 16 tiles vertically
	for i=0,16 do
		spr(1,t.x,t.y+i*8)
	end
end

Hello!

First, let me say how impressed I am with the things I've seen from the PICO community so far. It blows my mind how far you guys have already pushed this 'console' and I am super excited to get familiar with PICO and contribute.

I am currently using 1.8, and I'm in Ubuntu in crouton on my Chromebook. When I start PICO, it opens up in fullscreen, which is sort of an issue for me. I would really love to be able to unfocus from the window and resize it smaller, so that I can have some documentation and code on-screen, but I don't know how, or even if such a thing is possible. Has anyone also run into this?

Thanks in advance!

Travel Chess Beta 1

by dlmrky

Cart #25537 | 2016-07-19 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

Early beta for Travel Chess.

It replicates the little magnetic chess games I used to play with my brother in the back of the car on long journeys... (which I lost every time).

Todo: [table]
Pressing X on the board will remove a piece or each time you press remove then spawn a piece in sequence (pawn up to king). This way you can do 'queening', replace a piece if you've made a mistake or set up the board however you like (chess puzzles, all rooks Vs bishops etc).
Show possible moves when a piece is highlighted
Indicate check/mate
[tr][td][b]

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Hello all.

I'm a fairly new enthousiast Pico-8 user. I realy love the vibe that the Pico-8 community produces.

Plugging into that vibe I'm mentaly transported back to the late 80's and early 90's when i was fumbeling around using my MSX home computers. And trying to get the damn machines do what i wanted using MSX basic "code"

Currently if i'm playing a pico-8 games I'm playing them using a Xbox 360 gamepad. But it just doesn't feel right.
So i orderd some USB NES pads.

Then it came to me, on the MSX I played everyting using my (in the Netherlands famoust) "The Arcade 2" joysticks.

Look at that princess.

If Pico-8 would be a real (non virtual/fantasy) system what whould the default imput method be.

A controller (NES/Sega Master System like) or a joystick (MSX/atari/ C=64, Amiga) like?

Maneater

by Quick

Cart #25502 | 2016-07-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

Rough summary:

You are a tiger who craves human flesh. Eat as many people as possible without being shot by a hunter or starving to death.

Ideally, this would consist of a fair size overworld, or overworlds, which contains a multitude of prey. The number of hunters increases as you kill more, but you can hide in bushes/shadows.

Other features might be added once the game is playable.

Defender 0.1

by briac

Cart #25484 | 2016-07-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

1

Here is a cartridge I was working on and forgot about. It's a happy surprise that it is more or less working!

I might answer my own question here, but I want to take music from one cart and add it to my cart.

From what I've read, I need to copy the sfx and music sections of Cart A and paste it into Cart B. Easy enough, however, I've already made sound effects for Cart B. Am I correct in expecting that my sounds will get overwritten when I paste in Cart A effects?

Any nice way to import music without clobbering my own sound effects so I don't have to remake them? They're not great or anything, but making sounds is easily the most tedious thing in Pico8 and I'd hate to spend all the time to try and churn them out again.

Or maybe my game just won't have music...always an option...

Hi guys,

The Lair is almost ready for public consumption, but I'd like to playtest it for a while as a closed beta, to ferret out bugs and improve the gameplay as much as possible. This is how it looks like right now:

If you're interested in playing the game and helping out, drop me a line at [email protected] and I'll fire you back a link :)