1.03 changes block switching behavior so that switching from an active but ill-fitting block will stow the intersecting blocks beneath instead of the active block.

1.02 update offers modest difficulty relief via visual indication of enclosed spaces which aren't sized to fit blocks.

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puzzle

Robot Uprising is a Tower Defense style strategy game. Protect the last human base from the attacking robots by placing ground traps or weapon towers.

Accrue metal by destroying robots, or using Metal ground traps. Metal is precious, spend it wisely on your defences... or be personally responsible for the extinction of the human race.

This is a work in progress. Currently the first 8 levels are designed. Another enemy robot type, and hopefully a few

Update:

• when you die, you continue from the current level rather than having to restart from the beginning.

rts tower defense strategy

better late than never! ;)

I was unhappy with it at the time, but it seems I mostly fixed it eventually :)

(update: fixed score saving, paddle beep, added (x) to turn the machine on/off)

tinytv

496 tokens, originally intended for collab16 jams (too late for #1 and too big for #2)

older version (30Hz):

cat endless runner

NOT A GAME

Algorithmic Botanic, showing how the sunflower florets sprout. It's called the Phyllotaxis.

Press Left and Right to change the florets' size, Up and Down to mess around with the algorithm. It's a really beautiful thing.

When the algorithm is the "right" one, an exclamation mark show up at the top.

Hey everybody! I'm new to Pico-8 dev, so for a quick project to learn the ropes I threw together a class that lets you program your button-based logic with an event handler, rather than by polling. It probably sucks because it could potentially do a lot of polling, and I used a closure instead of setmetadata to implement the OO (I'm new to both Pico-8 and Lua) but I figured I'd throw it up here in case it could benefit someone.

Here are the features:

• Notifies on button pressed, passing the button number and player number
• Notifies on button released, passing the button number, player number, and total frames the button was pressed
• Can retrieve the current number of frames a button has been pressed at any time
• Number of players can be specified on instantiation, so that only buttons for valid players are polled

button input tools

Hi all, I've published the first installment of my visual novel "My Guild Leader Is A Demon", which has a soundtrack made mostly in the Pico-8 tracker (a few bits are NES chiptunes I had made before I began this project). You can download the executable for Win/Lin/Mac or watch it as a youtube video: https://0xabad1dea.itch.io/mgliad1

I have the .p8's (and some others I've done) stored at https://github.com/0xabad1dea/0xabad1dea.github.com/tree/master/pico8 if you want to play/inspect them, however, please note that only "tutorial", "raindrops", "castleruins" and "wistful" are allowed to be reused/remixed under cc attribution.

My first (somewhat) functional game in Pico 8. It's just that squashy game from the tutorial except you have to get to 100 to win. Gotta start somewhere right?

Anyway if anyone has any resources for learning to code in Lua in regards to Pico 8 it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

A basic implementation of Conway's Game of Life. A zero player game which simulates the life of a cell with very basic rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

educational zeroplayer

just a little game I came up with. should be suitable for children :)

updated: a few nitpicks

edit: "Meow Mix" music converted thanks to kittenm4ster! too good not to be true ;)

This a simple application of the flood fill recursive algorithm.
As having a table (2D array) to keep the pixels of the screen in memory is slow and pico-8 is out of memory pretty quickly, all the pixels manipulations are done through read/write of the screen ram and the user ram.

coloring game notagame simple floodfill ram

This is a collab of Neko250's Poly Spiral and a remake of the song We Are Number One - Lazy Town covered by DMP. I tweaked the spiral slightly by adding changing colors.

at least the music is neat?

Just...trying to figure out what the heck this is

this is...wow

Github repo

I was tired of navigating through all my code in a single file, so I made a simple tool for building carts code from multiple smaller files.

Nothing fancy as of now, but I hope it can save some people some time.

tool

A small cart I've made to make my scroll shooter game development easier.

It's a pretty custom editor, and it's definitely not finished, but you might find it useful if you want to write your own editor.

If you have a good idea about improving this, please, post it down here.

Corrected a comment in the code...

This is a little project I made in an afternoon.
It's a music player.
It plays music.

It is a bit special in that metadata like the name of songs, and their starting pattern can be coded into the gfx sector of the cart (in other words: you can program metadata in with colors!), but other than that, it's just a music player.

But checkout the gfx sector of this cart, it'll blow your mind!

Try to land in the pad safely as many times as you can! Land slowly and avoid asteroids-- and don't go past the borders now, cowboy.

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I have taken my most recent Pico-8 game Kid Bludd, stripped it down to the essentials, and I am releasing it as a kind of Platforming Game Starter Kit.

I removed all logic that isn't game agnostic, so it is hopefully a good starting point for pretty much any platformer.

It's not super complicated, but does a lot of stuff I see many games not doing, which I consider table stakes for a platformer that feel good.

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Hello there, I've been working on this piece of software called midi2pico
It does what it implies, converts midis into music for pico-8

I've recently just added proper drum support, so in celebration of that I want to release this little demo.

Come checkout midi2pico at github: https://github.com/gamax92/midi2pico

It's a very configurable midi conversion program, with the ability to mute channels, change volumes, and to shift pitches to fit into pico-8's audio range. midi2pico attempts to arrange midi data in a logical way, storing the beginning of a song at sfx 0 and the end of the song near the end of available sfx.

MIDI Format 0, pitch bends, sfx deduplication, silence removal, and now drums are supported. A midi instrument and drum to pico-8 translation table is supported, though not very populated and most instruments use a default conversion. Look for 'Instrument to PICO-8 Map' and 'Drums to PICO-8 Map' inside midi2pico.lua

A separate utility is also included for debugging midi files called midi2note. midi2note shows the end result after midi2opus, opus2score, and score2note conversions that midi2pico also uses.

[b]Installation

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midi music tool