Brutal Pico Race is a fast and raw futurist racing game on Pico8 by me, Damien Hostin, on twitter yourykiki (The Lurking Engine)
I wrote a little insight on my blog in two parts, you can find it here and here
Choose one ship out of three class, choose a track and try to finish first ! You can also challenge a friend, alone or with AI, in split-screen mode !
Brutal Pico Race features :
Single player or two players in splitscreen
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A little bit easier with less enemies:
Submit for the One Hour Game Jam 167,
http://onehourgamejam.com
Theme: That's not supposed to be a weapon.
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I don't know whether this qualifies as a "bug" per se, or just "don't do silly things", but here goes.
If you open up a cart with Code Tabs in an editor you can see they are just separated by a character sequence: "-->8".
Weird stuff happens if you manually insert these. If you insert them in the P8 editor, they'll just sit there until you next load the cart, at which point they will become new tabs.
Also the P8 editor enforces a maximum 8 tabs (labelled 0-7). If you have more than this, it will silently drop the offending extra tabs, even if they have content.
My suggestion would be to do something different - perhaps ignore extra tab separators and concatenate all the extra tabs into one? Or at least flag a warning on load.
The way I can see this being a real problem is with copy and pasting via external editor. It would be really nasty to accidentally drop part of your code this way.
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I, everyone.
I have a new pico-8 experience now.
I use the sparkfun joystick shield with an arduino leonardo.
Here is the code.
#include <Keyboard.h>
char btn0 = 3, btn1 = 4, btn2 = 5, btn3 = 6;
void setup() {
pinMode(btn0, INPUT);
digitalWrite(btn0, HIGH);
pinMode(btn1, INPUT);
digitalWrite(btn1, HIGH);
pinMode(btn2, INPUT);
digitalWrite(btn2, HIGH);
pinMode(btn3, INPUT);
digitalWrite(btn3, HIGH);
Keyboard.begin();
}
void loop() {
if (digitalRead(btn0) == LOW) Keyboard.print('x');
if (digitalRead(btn1) == LOW) Keyboard.print('c');
if (digitalRead(btn2) == LOW) Keyboard.print('w'); //z but I'm on azerty board, not qwerty
if (digitalRead(btn3) == LOW) Keyboard.print('v');
if (analogRead(0) > 524) Keyboard.write(215);
else if (analogRead(0) < 500) Keyboard.write(216);
if (analogRead(1) > 524) Keyboard.write(218);
else if (analogRead(1) < 500) Keyboard.write(217);
delay(10);//adapt it with the game
}
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A juicy remake of Breakout/Arkanoid with 15 levels and a highscore list. Created as part of a long-running video tutorial series. If you want to learn how to make a game like this, check out this thread!
How to play
You control the pad at the bottom of the screen. You need to destroy the bricks by hitting them with a ball. If the ball leaves the bottom of the screen you lose. You need to move your pad left and right to keep the ball on the screen.
If you move the pad while you hit the ball, you can change the angle of the ball's trajectory. There are also different powerups, which appear when you destroy a blue block.
[b]Powerups
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Wanted : a fool proof way of installing pico-8 on raspberry pi. I need wifi and Bluetooth. Don't want raspian desktop or any other distractions.
All I want is pure, simple, joyful pico-8 bliss.
Stuff I've tried.
- Booting straight to pico-8 via modified .bashrc file.
2 Booting to pico-8 via modified .localrc file.
3 Lakka
4 retopie
5 retrobox.
6 picopi
Really at my wits end. All the above method have flaws, bugs or contrivances.
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I am still very new to PICO-8 and saw a few games rendered with polygons.
This lead me to the Trifill Thunderdome benchmark by Musurca.
One thing this benchmark didn't show was the number of tokens for each method which is an important detail considering the limitations of the platform.
Also, I wrote two triangle rasterizers in 163 and 335 tokens respectively which perform pretty decently. They might be an acceptable alternative to ElectricGryphon's super fast triangle rasterizer if you need an extra 2-400 tokens. If you don't, by all mean use his. It is the fastest one I found, and by a good margin!
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This is my first ever Pico-8 musical creation. I've been making music for years but I've always wanted to make chip tune compositions and that's one of the things that drew me to the Pico-8 in the first place. This is the sound of me slowly learning the ropes. I hope you enjoy it. :)
This cart includes visuals from a user called @voxeldphoton on Twitter who kindly gave me permission to use his graphical code.
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Created by Chris Delay of Introversion Software
(Creator of Darwinia :)
I should be working on the new game but then I started messing with pico8 and suddenly WHERE DID MY DAY GO
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I am having trouble setting the path values for home_path, desktop_path, root_path, and cdata_path to a relative path in Windows. I assume that pico.exe is using the config.txt in its own directory before looking in appdata/roaming, but after every variation of a relative path I have tried, the pico-8 folder is still created in appdata/roaming instead of the relative path.
Variations I have tried:
home_path .
home_path /
home_path ./
UPDATE:
I solved this by using the command line arguments -home . -desktop . in a BAT file.
UPDATE 2:
After troubleshooting a couple more pathing issues, here are my final settings that are working for a portable pico-8 directory I just keep in dropbox:
shortcut:
pico8.exe -home . |
BAT file with dev console:
cmd /k start pico8.exe -home . |
config.txt:
desktop_path desktop/ root_path carts/ cdata_path cdata/ |
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This is the game I made for the One Mechanic Game Jam 4. It is my first complete Pico-8 game and has components of a game where you collect objects that fall from the sky and Tetris. The code is a bit messy, but I learned a lot and am very happy with it. Hope you enjoy it!
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Controls
Menu: Z to start game.
Game: Z to jump, X to restart from game over screen.
Mechanics
Super simple runner game. Jump over ditches and fences, don't jump over grass. Following these rules will increase your score.
Commentary
Another project-heavy month - I actually finished a GodotEngine game, but it was basically their tutorial game so probably not worth sharing. Also Pride here was right at the end of the month and that took a lot of time out of games stuff. So I tried to be kind to myself and let this slip into the grace period, and I feel good for doing it. Pretty happy with the cow sprite, the others aren't my favourite work but they serve pretty fine. Please enjoy!
itch.io page: here.
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Hello all, first time poster, short time user here. I'm not a programmer by any stretch, so my questions are surely going to be pretty ignorant.
Ever since I picked up Pico-8, I've been approaching my programming in a functional matter because it helps me reason about my program, reuse code, and all that fancy compositional stuff that comes for free with functional design. That's not because I'm smart or anything, I just ended up learning some Haskell and now I'm used to thinking functionally.
Anyway, imperative programming is a little foreign to me, but I've always heard people insist that functional programming is inefficient. That's definitely a myth in the compiled world, but I assume that there must be some truth to it if I just go around naively composing functions together in Lua without any idea of what's going on in the metal.
Are there any good resources out there for how to use functional patterns without breaking things down the road? What drawbacks are there to passing arguments through a long chain of functions, instead of just mutating state like the cool imperative kids do? I'll come back with some of my own (ugly) code samples to be a little more specific.
Cheers!
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Currently the craze at our local elementary school (on paper), I wanted to recreate the logic as a PICO-8 game:
The German Magazine Eltern has an article about these: https://www.eltern.de/drueck-mich
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This was a game jam made for the PIGSquad Summer Slow Jams. Unfortunately, I started at 1:00am the night before the end of the jam. I worked until 3am until I couldn't do math anymore, then picked it up the next morning and put in another 3 hours to get it done before the end of the jam. So... uh... excuse the code. It's game jam code. :)
Pop Shot! is a 4-player arena brawler where you eliminate your opponents by charging up shots and using them to knock your opponents into the spikes. You have 3 lives, and if you lose them all, you turn into a floating skull. While you're a skull, though, you can mash the X button to float just a [i]teensy
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