A Viking Rampage!

I first developed this game for Ludum Dare 34 in Unity, but I decided to recreate it on Pico-8 as a learning exercise and because I was never happy with the art in the original.

Z/C to attack
X/V to use your shield. This does not protect you from running into the enemies, only from their projectiles.

demo

A Sushi-Captain who gets attacked by fish and has to defend himself by turning them into sushi!

Controlls:

Y - Shoot Left
X - Shoot Right
ArrowKey Left - Walk Left
ArrowKey Right - Walk Right

Happy New Year all!

Please excuse my ignorance and do stop me if this has all been done before.

I'm thinking of bringing together a large collaborative game for Pico-8, based on the concept used in Lazy Jones for the C64:

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Lazy_Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DyoDJCqac

Basically Lazy Jones was the first example I know of, of a game that features lots of minigames (18 I think). In Lazy Jones, you walk round a hotel avoiding enemies etc, and opening doors, and behind each door is a timed minigame. The aim of the game was to play all of the games and get the highest total score.

I wouldn't be looking to replicate Lazy Jones exactly, rather it would use the same general idea - an overarching "meta" game with as many minigames as possible. Naturally I'd be looking for the different games to come from you guys!

Done on the C64 this was quite the technical feat, but done on the Pico-8 with all the Tweetjam skillz I've seen on here, this could be awesome. We only have half as much RAM available, but a lot of the C64 code would have been hardware stuff that is handled automatically by the Pico-8, so maybe a fairly level playing field?

In order to try to get as many games as possible we'd have to impose a few restrictions (yay!):

> Maybe some kind of token/char limit - we'd need to strike the right balance between number of games and the scope of those games.
> Each game has some kind of final score and some kind of timer/lives system, to feed into the "meta" score.
> Screen space restrictions, to allow for general HUD stuff etc.
> Light on sprites and SFX usage - maybe share assets between games or come up with a master asset list for all games and try to optimise?
> Global music same for all games, maybe each game can decide to play it or not.

Obviously this is all very early ideas, and I'd very much welcome feedback - and as much help as possible - in shaping the final thing!

Let me know what you think :)

Neil

Someone reminded me that I'd never actually posted this silly little line thingy that I made last year while I was bored on a flight. So, enjoy! :D

lines screensaver trail

My new game, im a noob... any coment please let me know ;)

Controls
Z to start. Arrows move the junk bin.

Commentary
I love the idea of seabinproject.com​​. Came across it a while ago and although it might be a case of directing resources at the symptom rather than the disease, I have to admire such a simple idea that seems to work so well. (I did take a little bit of artistic liberty in not requiring it be tied down to a specific point by its electric cable, but a free-floating one of these isn't totally fantastical in fairness.)

I have been working on another game and it's not going to happen today, probably not even this week, despite being simple enough in theory. A lot of learning in this other one, and I'm sick, so I decided to 'give myself a break' and 'only' crunch out something small in a few hours.

Enjoy simulating something that would help the world as you play this game! It's rare enough in games, really, but we all need our escapes as well.

(Comments will actually notify me on itch.io, but not here, so I might be slower to respond to comments here, but I love to hear what people think of my games.)

itch.io page: here.

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simulation arcade sea

Rogue Fleet is my take on a space shooter. The idea was originally sort of a reverse-Galaga. It'd be pretty fun to be the capturing ship and form a fleet of enemies, right? It could be better, but I'm okay with what it is right now.

Code, art and sound by me.

Grab a friend/family-member/stranger, two controllers and it's time to play Just Hit The Ball!

A very simple 2D volley game, kindof!

Finished in time for the last end-of-the-year celebration! (except for the third of the planet that's already in 2018, oops)

I got my grandma to play it, which was unexpected, so I can assert that this game is For The Whole Family!

[b][i][u]Please consider supporting me on Patreon! Thank you!

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2-player versus

I think I'm good letting this be done now.

New version heaps on a bit more polish and changed up how charge generates a bit. Now it's slower but gives charge for shooting enemies. I played to the point of the game not being able to keep up, which came much sooner than I thought it would, unfortunately.

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Updated Version with Simon Hutchinson's music!

hit me up on twitter!

This is an experiment that I've made with simple 3D and a 3D simplex noise function!

vaporwave retrowave 3d

hi i made a sunset

edit for fixed indentation

sun sunset art

professor layton music

Hi guys, I just discoved a website called indiexpo. It has a nice area called Console. Downloading the indiepad app (still only for android) you will turn your smartphone in a gamepad and can play your pico-8 game using the PC like monitor.

The nice thing is that it's very easy and fast upload a game there and enable the "indiepad feature".

No plugin, no code, no script. When you're creating your page, you have to check "indiepad" and select the keys used in your game.
Very easy and fast.

I already played several games made with pico-8 on it (Find Gold and Kelin). They works very good.

They want to create also an app for Chromecast to play the games there.

chromecast indiexpo console

I wanted to see if I could implement a generic flood fill that's fast enough for live use. This probably isn't it; it's fast enough for the demo but maybe not for a quick-moving game, and misses some edge cases. Plus it eats a lot of memory. It was fun to write, though! And it doesn't recurse, it just builds a queue in memory and iterates through it.

How to play with the demo:

• x and z to cycle through the vertices
• arrow keys to move the highlighted vertex

There are two fills happening here; the dark red from the bright red point, and the dark blue from (0, 0). (There's also a white rectangle behind the whole thing, which you'll notice if you move the shape around in a way that keeps the fills from reaching everything.)

I learned how to do the memory stuff from krajzeg's excruciatingly cool lighting engine, which is written up here if you haven't had the pleasure: https://hackernoon.com/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7

I'm making myself knock it off and go to bed before I solve those last couple of edge cases, but if this is useful to you as-is, please use it! Note that it helps itself to all of the user-defined memory space by default; you can limit it by changing the constants queue_start and queue_size (immediately above the floodfill function), but could in theory run into trouble if you set it very small and try to fill a very weird shape. (I haven't actually done the math on what it would require.)

Originally made for Ludum Dare 40, then upgraded a bunch for my patrons, now available for everyone! <3

The vector drawing/animation on the title screen is based on Gabriel Crowe's systems found >here<.

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~ Links: ~
Curse of Greed on itch.io
My Patreon - supports things like this ;)

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~ Changelog: ~
Curse of Greed - Ludum Dare Release
Ultimate 1.0 - New levels, difficulties, fixes & improvements, title effects

just playing around with some blockdude-inspired platforming.

controls:

left and right to move, x to jump
z to spawn a box

bump into a box + down = push the box
bump into a box + up = pick up the box (the space above it and you must both be clear)

while carrying a box, hold up and tap a direction to drop it

trying to decide if this control scheme is ridiculous or not!

I noticed that an SFX instrument wasn't triggering and after some experimenting I found that it was because the previous note was the same and using the same SFX instrument. However, its volume was 0, so this behaviour was a surprise for me. The manual states: "SFX instruments are only retriggered when the pitch changes, or the previous note has zero volume.". Is this a bug or am I misinterpreting the manual?

Version: 0.1.11f

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create SFX 00 like so:

2. Create SFX 01 like so:

3. Play SFX 01, you'll hear it trigger SFX 00.
4. Zero out the volume of the first two notes in SFX 01:

5. Play SFX 01.

Expected result:

6. The SFX instrument triggers at the third note

Actual result:

6. Silence.

If you replace the first two notes in SFX 01 with say C#2 and zero out their volumes again, the SFX instrument will trigger on the third note as expected.

bug

Every time you run the game a new galaxy is created :0. Pretty cool if you ask me

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