Use ARROW KEYS to control the ship.
Z to shoot.
The goal of the game is to reach the right value by shooting positive or negative numbers, without colliding with them.
It's the boring math version of Asteroids you have always feared!
Feedback and comments are welcome.
And post your score! :)
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I got really annoyed with myself trying to visualize coordinates on the screen. So I used my l33t excel skills to throw a grid together with some reference numbers.
I am doing this bastard oldschool.
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As I've run out of memory with no reply to my query:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=27921
I am forced to post this in 2-pieces. I've already written the rest of the game, so that part is complete.
I just can't include two compressed pictures with the amount of code I've written thus far.
So now I am just working on a name entry and keeper of high scores. Once that is complete, I will post part 2. It will be the main entire game minus the logo routine you see above.
(Z) "O" to start game (not here)
(X) "X" to speed up scrolling text
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Justifo 0.1 WIP will be built by MAJ build team, Justifo Build Team & Dev Team, + More people. All the information for questions will be down below, unless you ask in the comments.
Whats Justifo?
Justifo is a Multiplayer Warfare game. It consists of two teams, and it rotates between maps that you vote on. Teams are split evenly and you can not choose your team unless you have a premium rank. Premium ranks consist of different perks earned. Based on your PC, you can play with a certain amount of people. A leaderboard will be added in the full version, keeping track of kills and deaths. Kills can buy you premium, plus more separate perks within and without premium.
What maps will there be?
We're currently working on two different maps, plus weapons and veichles earned with kills. Our current maps our: Medieval, Graveyard, Galaxy. Underwater, Inside Computer, Desert, and Ants Life. Medieval, Graveyard, & Galaxy our currently our main focuses for V0.1
What weapons/veichles will there be?
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My first PICO-8 thing! Please be gentle as you rip my coding skills to shreds.
Yes, I know it isn't a proper game, that's the "joke" :) For more information on the game's origins, you can see here.
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I am receiving this:
I suspect this means I will not be able to post my game Online. Any ideas ?
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Just a basic timer that I made to count seconds, minutes and hours. Plan on using it in a game to time special states.
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Kick Wizards is a 1-4 player beat 'em up inspired by the old TMNT and X-Men arcade games I pumped a thousand quarters into back in the mid-nineties.
tap (o) to cast punch -- on the web, player 1: z, player 2: tab
tap (x) to cast kick -- on the web, player 1: x, player 2: q
Hold the buttons to charge for a more powerful attack.
Charge a spell near a healing crystal to get some HP back
Players on the web will be limited to 2 players (player 2's arrow keys are sdfe); folks with the real PICO-8 console can play up to 4 at once.
If another player dies, living wizards can charge spells near the gravestone to resurrect the dead wizard.
This game is pretty difficult. Gamepads are strongly recommended.
[i]v 1.2
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First of all: I really love the idea of Pico-8. Great piece of interesting and fun software. But the very basic constraints of it are sometimes... well, err, limiting. But, hey, that was the basic idea after all which makes the platform so creative and inspiring.
Nevertheless, like 8-bit machines evolved over time (i.e. the Commodore VIC20 was overtaken by it's younger brother C64), I find the idea of a follow up for Pico-8 very appealing. Still having solid constraints but giving some more freedom on the other hand. What about a Pico-32 with specs like these (basically most of the current specs multiplied by 4):
128 kilobytes memory
512 x 512 screen
512 sprites, size 32x32
64 colors (still fixed - the current colors in 4 shades for example)
8 channel sound (32 would be overkill)
512 x 128 map
8 x 8 font, with the ability to define custom fonts (the current font is very annoying to me)
What do you think?
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Hi, i'm working on implementing a pico-8 emulator in javascript (browser) and wanted to share current progress with you.
UPDATES:
It's open source now
https://github.com/burakcan/jsgs
First steps
Sprites / Multiple screens / Crt filter on-off
Inputs / Current status (video)
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dear people,
could you please stop renaming action buttons to your own liking?
I know, pico8's input is a pandora's can of worm.
officially the buttons should be named (O)/(X) (in that order) but:
- these are fantasy buttons. only (X) has a physical meaning, on your keyboard or your xbox controller (not on your dualshock).
- you can't expect people at large to know what the button letters/glyphs mean (unless you only use X), especially online (on your itch.io or even right here on the bbs)
- most of you are playing on your keyboard. I have a xbox controller connected at all time, but the dpad is not supported and the left stick if often a PITA with games developed with arrow keys in mind. so I'm on keyboard too, most of the time. no gamepad online anyway.
that's why many of you are referring to [Z]/[X]. which with all due respect is selfishly short-minded, since z is anywhere else on non-qwerty keyboards. of course the fact that pico8 treats [Z] differently on the web and in standalone doesn't help a bit. may god help you if you're on a dvorak ;)
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I have decided to make public my "game template" for the PICO-8. This is my starting point when I want to make a game.
It has a state machine, some utility functions (very basic) and an example of metatable usage (objects in Lua) with the Entity metatable. It includes a colision function (rectangles colision) for that Entity but it can be adapted to whatever you need.
I know there is another repository with something similar but I wanted to do my own mostly to learn and because everybody code differently.
You can get my template in this github repository
I hope this is helpful :)
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Hi all,
Although i'm a buyer of the full version of pico-8, i bought a PocketCHIP to play this fantastic console during my daily trips to work. I'ts a pity that the latest version on the pkCHIP is only 1.7 ( today for my first time i tried to play a game and splore said to me that my version was too old)
When can we expect an update?
I'm not asking for strict etas but i'm starting to worry on future pocketCHIP updates..
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Just came across another nasty little thing about PICO. When referring to an array, it does not round down to the nearest integer when you make a regular array. Try the following:
cls()
a={}
for i=0,7 do
a[i]=i+1
end
for i=0,7,.5 do
print(a[i])
end
|
The results are:
1 NIL 2 NIL 3 NIL 4 NIL 5 NIL 6 NIL 7 NIL 8
Let's try the same thing in BlitzMAX:
Strict Local i#,a[8] ' must be +1 of total (0-7) For i#=0 To 7 a#[i]=i+1 Next For i#=0 To 7 Step .5 Print a#[i] Next |
The # represents that this is a floating point variable.
Results in this case are:
1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8
Which is the standard reply from this and many other BASIC programming languages.
Now apparently this does mean that it is possible to have fractional arrays. Something I've never seen until now.
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Inspired by @pippinbarr's tweet:
░ ░ ░ ░ GAME IDEA
░ ░ ░
░ ░ YOU ARE AN ELEVATOR
░ ░ ░ JUDGING
░ ░
░ ░ ░ ░ ELEVATOR PITCHES
░ ░ ░
░ ░ BUT NO ONE
░ ░ ░ ASKED FOR YOUR OPINION
Made for The Pippin Barr 'GAME IDEA' Game Jam.
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Many programming languages allow you to make direct changes to arrays at a memory level using a command called VARPTR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdZahXk-e9Y
What I would like to do is:
a="" for i=0,8191 do a=a.."*" end memcpy(24576,varptr(a),8192) repeat flip() until forever |
Is this possible to do in PICO ?
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A mini project done on the side of a bigger one!
This is just a toy for testing interesting movement in a PICO-8 game. I might use it in a later project,
but if you want to use it in your project, feel free to do so! :)
Steer the "feet" with the arrow keys and change foot with X,Y.
It almost feel like real walking! ;)
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