I was thinking the other day about how the remote lakes in the mountains near my house are stocked with fish by dropping them out of planes and helicopters. What a strange experience that must be for a fish! So I decided to make a little game about it.
So far there's no real goal, you just fly each fish into the lake and stock it up with happy, swimming fishes. I haven't decided yet whether I'll add a more concrete goal or keep it as is. Not totally happy with the helicopter sprite yet, either.
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- Added two new stages,
- Changed transition to next stage: after killing all punkters, drive through the stage exit,
- Removed camera scroll after completing a stage,
- Some code improvements.
- Added background for stages.
- Made interface more readable.
- Added brake light on car.
- Made the punkters punker.
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As a spinoff to TTF fonts by @RythmLynx, I created some bitmap fonts (in various typefaces) because I could map them to both OEM and Windows 1252 (which also includes ISO 8859-1) for use in text editors. I have FON font files for only Windows right now (until someone converts them to the Linux types and tests them).
UPDATE: DejaVu TrueType fonts have been added to the collection.
Screenshot of the same p8 file open in Sublime Text, Notepad++, and PICO-8.
Fonts and more details on the Github page:
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Hello, here is my new game,
which is not actually a game
because there is no rules
buttons : x,c,arrow keys
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Greetings,
I just bought PICO-8 last night and installed it in retro-pie and I am very happy with the results, however, I cannot seem to get the "right" direction on my USB controller (while working with everything else) seems to open a small menu instead of what I expect.
Its very odd and I haven't tried a new controller (yet) but as I say everything (including the retro-pie navigation) works perfectly when I use the right direction key. Even the PICO-8 navigation for right direction works, but all bets off once I am playing a game (its unusual).
Just for fun I setup the controller all over again but same results. Is there something in the PICO-8 menu (or something underneath) that I am missing? Thanks for any help. Is it possible this is happening because I am using the -spore option or something (because the menu it opens is to get back to the splore menu, etc..)
USB controller is a converted (I have had it for years) working NES controller to USB. Maybe I don't have enough buttons?
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Rotating Spheres using just palette swapping, runs very fast! Just for fun, but maybe someone finds this technique useful :).
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In Fathom your mission is to penetrate the enemies secret lair buried deep inside a volcano and retrieve the stolen plans. Collect USB drives of enemy plans for bonus points on each level.
Your agent is armed with only his glide suit and his wits in this hardcore platformer.
Arrow Keys or D-PAD to move.
Z or B button to Jump - press again to glide slowly.
While gliding, press X or the A button to boost briefly upwards.
Get to the bottom of each level to get to the next.
Good luck! Feedback welcome.
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The Falling Sand game has been around a long time, but I didn't see a Pico-8 port.
The reason for that is: it's really hard to get a decent-sized grid to run at full speed on the Pico. This implementation runs a little slower than 15FPS (when running the simulation) on my machine, so it isn't quite as smooth as I'd like, but still pretty playable. In the future, I'd love to post a faster version, but I've hit a bit of a wall with the Lua optimizations I'm already aware of.
If you're not familiar with Falling Sand, the basic idea is that you're simulating a bunch of elements in a grid, where different elements react in different ways - oil floats on water, fire burns wood, plants grow when watered, and so on. It's fun to play around and build things, but there's no goals or progression, really.
Have fun!
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Hey there! This is my March lab day project. It was a lot of fun to work with PICO-8. The limitations proved to be a fun challenge.
Arrows to move the cursor
Z to select
X to go back
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My entry for #resistjam! It's 90% done, boss AI doesn't work yet though so he just stands there.
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Hi folks
Im new to Pico-8, but have been playing with the raspberry pi for a while.
My latest project has a pi zero, screen, battery, and some basic controls all smushed together as small as possible. I spent an hour the other day playing with pico-8 on it, and i can say, im hooked!!
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