This is simple animation that I made. I want to use it as the background in a space shooter.
Feel free to comment and reuse :)
There are no controls, although you can modify values in init function to change speed and number of stars.

After wetting my toes in the Pico-8 pool with my Tile Swap game, I figured I should try a bigger game. It's still a WIP, but playable already, so I thought I'd share it.

The game is called Bumble Bots. The idea of the game is "stolen" from the Rolmops game developed by the team that I was part of in this year's Global Game Jam. The Jam's theme was "waves".

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puzzle action 2.5d

Update (24 Sep 2017)

I've added a pause button, and as was suggested by commenters @Felice and @apLundell I switched to using the pico glyphs for the graphics... it's a little less flashy looking overall, but gives a much nicer more consistent feel.

Original Post:

I am just getting into playing around with pico-8, but after finishing my first little game, I really wanted to be able to play and distribute it for mobile, so being primarily a JavaScript guy, I've hacked together a little controller that embeds itself on the webpage for mobile devices.

I've tried to keep it as simple for other game-makers to use as possible. As such it should work out of the box with html/js files that are exported from pico-8. All you should have to do to use it with your own game is drop the js, css and png files into the same directory as the html file and then link the files as described in the Readme on github:

Heres the code:

https://github.com/codyloyd/pico-webcontroller

and a demo:

http://codyloyd.com/pico-webcontroller-test/
(go there on your phone, or resize your browser window to see the controls.)
and you can also see it in action on my game here: http://codyloyd.com/jazzyjeff/

I'd love any feedback or tips that you might have. I don't have a huge array of devices to test it out on, so if you find something not working let me know!

What if there was a followup to Pico-8, almost as like a next-gen version of the console, kind of like the NES to SNES. Since Pico-8 was meant to be 8bit, this would be 16bit, called Pico-16 Features would include:

• Larger cart size, using .gif rather than .png for export and .p16 for the other format
• Using the same easy to learn lua code
• increasing cart limit from 32k compressed to 120k compressed
• color palette increased from 16 colors to 64 colors
• multiple maps
• larger sprite size of 16x16
• backwards compatible to load and play but not export pico-8 carts

idea engine

Avoid the ballzz... collect the coins... use the bombs to stay alive

arcade

New in this minor version:

• Carrots block the farmer's sight
• Farmer is smarter about going around obstacles
• Farmer only chooses a direction after each step (so it's possible to dart in and out of sight)
• Changed default level

Still to do:

• Make combos visible
• Other vegetables with different growth rates?
• Level changing
• Intro/tutorial levels

Maybe:

• Add a sprint?
• Autogenerate maps?

action arcade bunny farm

Press Z to explode

Heavily inspired by @TRASEVOL_DOG's lovely Darken Palette and procedural dithering. Not exactly sure why it's exploding so much, it wasn't what I was going for. It's pretty though...

Pretty sure this goes out of sync and is almost certainly not the best way to go about achieving this. Would love some feedback on my gross code.

I'm excited to announce that a project I've been working on for quite some time now is finally complete!
Super Mega Bread, a platforming game about using butter to fly, is coming out September 20th, 2017. When it releases, it will come with the game as well as the game's soundtrack, both with the in-game versions and redone versions.
The game will be $1, and I'll include a link to the itch.io page once it's out.
Until then, here is a short trailer, showing some gameplay:

I hope you'll enjoy it!

EDIT: When the game comes out, you can get it here:
https://jclermont.itch.io/super-mega-bread

Because who doesn't want to have their PICO-8 games in a nice Steam grid?

I'll start off with a couple simple ones I made:

Celeste:

Dank Tomb:

wow candy

..How awesome was it to see pico-8 demos, intros and games?

We should totally have compos for this system.

Big update!

Basic concepts are still the same, but there's a few changes:
-Level order is different; some levels have been redone
-New night theme and music
-Particles & death animations
-Platforms that move down
-Moving spike obstacle

New game!

Here's the controls: left and right to move, Z to jump, X to launch when within range.

....That's about it! I'll add more content soon.

platformer celeste hardcore

Pico-8s music tracker is lovingly modeled after similar chiptrackers and samplers from the days of yesteryear so my question was if we could get more direct control over the tracks? As it stands now you can play a pattern directly but not specify exactly where to start or jump to.

I'd like to see classic tracker functionality added such as being able to manipulate patterns and channels on the fly as needed in the code. This would give people a lot more control over their music (And sfx for those who use the music channels for them.) allowing for things like music/beat games and incidental music to be easier to pull off. (As it stands now you need some pretty tricky peeks at the memory to do these things and even then the timing's not 100% accurate.)

Just a bit of bouncy slime sprites.

I wasn't sure what forum this would apply to as it's an asset for others to learn from or use/Repurpose so I put it in the collab forum. Code is pretty compact and verbosely commented so even the very basic user of Pico-8 can get a grasp of what I did and how.

UPDATE: Updated to 2.0! Includes McBoffin's suggestions, And includes simple "Warp" effect as well now! Everything's broken up into functions for ease of copying the functions to your own program, And commented up the wazoo for ease of tinkering!

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Another small sketch. This one was inspired by one of Trasevol Dog's projects.

(Note : should I do a thread per sketch or a big thread for storing all of them?)

(Thanks to electricgryphon for their trifill routine)

sketch

Working on this as a thank-you for my friend Todd who gifted me an actual, Practical PocketCHIP on which to git gud at Pico-8. I borrowed the music from the Musicdisc by Gruber for now just to have a cheery tune in place till I can get a better grip on how this tracker works compared to .IT which I'm used to.

My 'CHIP doesn't get here till Wednesday-Friday though so it's like the horrible anxiety of waiting for Xmas. XD

EDIT: I know my code's a bit sloppy but I haven't sat and coded anything in years. It's all coming back to me and 2.0b should be a lil' more slimmed down hopefully. Those long sprite lists I can likely handle with a function.

fox foxes note animation

Just something quick I threw together to get acquainted with PICO-8. It was inspired by one of the first games I ever programmed—a brickfall type of game in BASIC on a TI-83!