Hi all,

I have recently started making a 2bit game that involves a lot of black outlining, and its dawned on me that in the sprite editor, anything coloured black isn't drawn and counts as an empty pixel..

Is there a way to change which colour counts as the "nothing" colour? Or alternatively, is there a way to underlay a sprite with a black silhouette etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Josh

Hi pico8'ers, it's me again. Sorry!

Today I am wondering what the best approach would be to check if a sprite/object has touched a line and act accordingly.

Take the following example:
Let's say I made this 45 degree slope and I have a character that can walk to it or jump to it from wherever. I want that line to be "solid" and affect the character's behavior.

Illustrated:

How would I go at this, I have no idea.
I have a collision system in place in my game, but it checks bounding boxes.
Of course I don't want to make bounding boxes of 1x1 and check against all of them, that sounds slow and stupid.

I think maybe what I need here is "raycasting" but I never in my life have done anything like that and have no idea where to begin. I don't even know if that is what I am looking for.

I don't want to make slopes of varying angles, it will always be a 45 degree slope. I Am hoping this also would make things easier.

I didn't find any cart on the BBS that does exactly what I want from where I could look at some code. Maybe I didn't look hard enough.

Any help appreciated!

ld41

z to shoot
arrows to move
shoot space bugs
dodge asteroids
shoot correct trivia answers to slay boss
shoot the wrong answer and pay the price

#ludumdare #ludumdare41

My submission to the Ludum Dare 41 Compo, my first Ludum Dare! I've been playing with PICO-8 on a different as-yet-unreleased project, but decided to jump in on a game from scratch for LD. The theme was "combine two incompatible genres", and I went with a side-scrolling text adventure. It's playable, if a bit spartan - I started Saturday morning, so everything you see here is the product of something like 28 hours of coding/eating and 5 hours of sleep. I'm pretty proud of what I made of it, all things considered!

The inspiration for the game was a picture of an old Apple Newton that someone posted in Slack at work, which had a frog icon for a game that I initially thought was titled "Frogs vs. Cats". Upon zooming in and consulting references of Apple Newton apps, I was disappointed to find that it was in fact Frogs vs. [i]Cars

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You are at a speedrun event. You're trying to complete an RPG as quickly as possible, skipping as much as you can.

Made solo from scratch in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 41 based on the theme 'Combine 2 Incompatible Genres'.

​Ludum Dare entry page

​Tweet thread

itch.io page

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Hey folks! Been awhile since I've posted something on the BBS, but thought I'd share my LD41 entry.
It's local multiplayer only unfortunately (I'd hoped to get a decent AI opponent in but didn't have time). If you manage to get someone to play with you though, let me know how it goes!

HOW TO PLAY

• drop pieces in empty slots
• swap pieces in filled slots
• match 3+ to earn swaps
• connect exactly 4 to win

LD entry page
itch.io page

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Fixed the various boss fight glitches, such as the game not ending when you run out of health, the menu cursor not aligning properly, and the health bar going into the negatives. I won't be updating the game again until after LD41 is over.

My entry for LD41, finished (if not quite polished) after a hard night of debugging. It's also my first-ever completed PICO-8 game. So proud of myself for getting this done within the Compo deadline, even if I'm gonna be short on sleep for work tomorrow...

'Love Is A Battlefield" combines a bullet-hell shooter with a dating sim. On the surface, it's a game about shooting hearts at coloured circles while your date asks you if you know who Pat Benatar is for the sixth time. Deep down, though, it's about helping others to deal with their insecurities and break down their emotional barriers.

I hope you enjoy it, and feedback is appreciated, especially since this is my first PICO-8 game and the code is probably a horrendous mess!

ld41

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v1.1: Fixed boss door, made spikes 'n barrel fairy a bit easier, other things

My entry to Ludum Dare #41 compo! Made in 48hrs from scratch!

The illustrious Rhythm Witch Anemone Reawolf has a problem - her underground storeroom is in complete disarray and the Storemaster's nowhere to be seen. Can you navigate a trap-filled dungeon, rescue the odd fairy and uncover the true mastermind behind all this chaos?!

Witchbeat fuses rhythm-game mechanics with good ol' dungeon delving. Get close (but not too close!) to your enemy and attack in time with the beat. Solve puzzles, find keys, beat up blobs and generally faff about.

Controls: Arrow keys to move. Z to attack/next dialog

It's been an idea I've wanted to try for a while. Some of it works... It's a little buggy, and there's no auto/input lag calibration (might add it later) so it's probably unplayable on some machines, but hopefully it works for the most part!

Happy beats!

DragonXVI

This is my compo submission for LD41.

The 2 incompatible genres are platformer and minigames. Everytime you jump on an enemy you get to play heads or tails. The idea was to have to play a different minigame every time (e.g. like Wario Ware).

Unfortunately I ran out of time, due to some nasty bugs and not having the whole 48 hours available. I shouldn't have spent this much time on the level generation algorithm either.

What's missing:

• fancy backgrounds,
• bleepy music,
• cool sfx,
• many more minigames,
• an actual goal,
• timer
• checkpoints
• score

ld41

Introduction

This is my Ludum Dare 41 entry.
I hope you have fun.

Controls

Move - Arrow keys
Skip - Z key
Menu - Enter/Return key
Controls - X key

Rules

You need to collect elemental points in order to defeat the enemies and increase your score (hidden), by entering the doors. Each door can reward you with 1 or 2 element points of it's kind.

You need to have elemental points of the element that is strong against the enemy, Pokémon style, in order to hit it.

If you move over an enemy while having enough elemental points, it loses 1 shield point, is pushed back and stunned for 1 turn.
If you don't have the required elemental point to hit the enemy, you lose.
If the enemy is against the wall, it takes double damage and dies.

If you move towards an enemy that is 1 cell away from you:
-> If you have the required elemental point, you'll attack it.
-> Otherwise you'll just move closer to it.

If you get hit by an enemy, you lose an elemental point of the enemy kind.
In this case, you'll die if your related elemental point goes under 0.

Elements table

Fire > Water > Rock > Thunder > Fire

Beating the game

Reach the 41th floor

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Uh... yeah. Sorry about this...

As an retired half-life modder and frequent forum poster, I'm pretty used to the idea of mega-threads. Basically, the modding forums that I often visited had at the very least a "random" thread, which people used almost like a chat.

Some others would also have a WIP thread, which incentivized people to post their WIPs more often, because they didn't need to go through the effort of creating an entirely new thread, just to show off some minor thing they're working on.

So yeah, hate it or love it, I'm just putting the idea forward.

Post what you're working on right now here.

mega-thread

Friday evening I decided I try and spend 10 hours on a game spread over the weekend, without knowing it was LDJAM14. I've managed to clock up about 8hrs on it. It's been really fun. Lots of ugly code, that needs refactoring, and I'm a complete newb at sound & music, so any help gratefully accept there.

The code is up on github https://github.com/pond823/GetToTheChopper

Dykie se rend à une soirée, mais une fois de plus son chemin est semé d'embûches !
Face à tout ce sexisme Dykie fait preuve d'inventivité en refaisant la déco !
Here the english version : https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=33590

TOUCHES POUR JOUER se déplacer = flèches directionnelles faire une action = X (=lettre X sur ordi ou bouton rond gauche sur smartphone)

Ce jeu a gagné 4 P8 AWARDS 2018 :
"Underrated" Award / "Out of the Box" Award / "Ephemeral" Award / "Novella" Award.

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This is a fishing-and-driving simulator for Ludum Dare 41, "combine two incompatible genres." I tried to actually put enough instructions in the cart for once, but if if anything's confusing or too hard, please let me know!

LDJAM voters, the submission page is back thisaway: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/the-fish-and-the-furious

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