Made as both a personal tool, and for the AP Computer Science Principles Create Task.
Arrow keys to cycle through the keys, the rest of the controls are pretty self-explanatory.
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I followed along with @rabidgremlin 's excellent tutorial to make a Tron clone. The tutorial was for a two-player version, so I thought it would be a cool challenge to make it into a single player-only game, hence the "Lonely" in the title.
One other addition is the ability to select the arena size before starting. Smaller arenas are generally harder, as the AI is tougher to outlast given the smaller area.
Instructions
You are the blue line.
The CPU is the orange line.
Move around the arena without bumping into anything, and outlast the CPU to win.
Menu Controls
U/D to move between menu options
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MAJOR UPDATE
With this update the game now progresses across multiple battles, soldiers can level up and have a talent tree, and 2 new enemy types have been added.
The game has 16 levels, and you need to beat level 16 to win. However, levels don't progress 1 at a time, the level you are assigned is based on the combined level of all your soldiers. If a soldier survives a battle they will gain a level and be granted 1 skill point. So if all soldiers survive level 1 you will progress to level 4, if they all survive level 4 you will progress to level 7 etc.. So it's possible to do a perfect run and win the game by playing only 6 battles.
If a player doesn't survive they will be replaced with a new recruit. As you progress through the levels new recruits will start with more skill points so if you lose any soldiers or have a full wipe you won't be set back too far (and you can respec your soldiers).
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first revision of a lil tank game I've been working on.
Z - fire
X - swap between move / fire modes
left/right - rotate cannon
up/down - move forward or backward relative to cannon when 'move mode' is enabled
the goal is simply to get a high score! powerups are trishot + laser sight, which spawn randomly upon enemy death.
still revising aesthetic design, which may be too cluttered / visually hard to focus on i think.
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Controls: Arrows. Get to the highest level you can before you run out of shoes.
Okay, let us travel back to ... 1980!
Our family got an Apple ][+ on June 9th, 1980. I LIVED on that computer all summer. Making text adventures, graphics demos...
One of the first games I made was WALK INTO THE DOT. It was in Apple ][+ lo-res graphics. There are BAD DOTS. Do not walk into them. There is a GOOD DOT. Walk into it if you can!
It wasn't great, BUT it did bring up some subtle game design ideas, and was part of me learning, 39 years ago, how to design games.
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A thread for Ludum Dare 44 this weekend. Feel free to post any updates, WIPs or meet-ups here!
Theme voting: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/theme
For anyone in Tokyo, Pico Pico Cafe will be open both days for ludumdarers, 10am Saturday ~ late Sunday. If you'd like to join, there is an rsvp form. (Note there is an overlapping picotachi from 7pm~ on Saturday)
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Hey guys,
This is my first pico 8 project. I thought it would be interesting to code a baba is you game.
It turns out to be very complicated, haha. I'm sure the code is not great, so I'd love to hear feedback.
The whole thing needs to be restructured, I don't think this is a good base to build from. for instance, currently I'm using tables for each separate object, but every object would need to be in the same table so it could change what object it is. In the ideas tab I was trying to build an index table for all the objects, but I don't think I understand quite yet.
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I made some changes to the structure. I still feel like this is not a good structure, but at least now I have all the tiles created as objects that could be manipulated. There's a lot to think about with this code, I would love to hear what anyone could tell me. Maybe before even starting on drawing each of the objects I need to worry about getting the text block recognition, because that will define what functions to assign to each tile.
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An experiment with memcpy shenadigans and whatnot. Derived mainly from this tutorial: https://trasevol.dog/2018/01/24/di20/
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Experimenting with a new background for charlie, I've developed this fractal viewer.
Move around with arrows. Hold Z and left/right to rotate or up/down to zoom. X will rotate the pallette.
Special thanks to @freds72 for his fast sprite rotation function, which this is largely based upon
Enjoy!
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The manual implies that the line-continuation syntax might allow for this...
line( 10,10, 20,10, 1 ) line( 20,20, 2 ) line( 10,20, 3 ) line( 10,10, 4 ) |
...which would make a rectangle with four differently-colored sides.
But PICO-8 seems to interpret line(x2,y2,col) as line(x1,y1,x2,0).
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Work in progress of a puzzle prototype.
Will be updating as I make changes and add more levels.
UPDATE #1 4/21/19:
- main menu update with wavy title (thank you pico-8 demo cart!)
- vertical & horizontal flipping for tiles above/below & to the left/right of center tile
- centered flipping for the tile that the player chooses to flip
- ability to choose which level to start on
UPDATE #2 4/28/19
- sped up flipping animation
- added sound effects for flipping, level reset, & level compete
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Converted my Senior Design project (originally created in Unity) to a simplified version in PICO-8.
This is still a work in progress, and I will update here as I continue to work on it.
Items to work on...
- bug where killing an enemy can cause game over
- more enemy types including boss enemy at the end of each level
- loot: gold, health items, etc
- sound effects for sword hit, enemy death, room transition
- implement coroutines to allow for more on screen (currently experiencing slow down when more enemies/animated objects are on screen)
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Update: Download 0.2.6b for CHIP and PocketCHIP here: pico-8_0.2.6b_chip.zip
You can just unzip it somewhere and run it, but if you want to install over the default location so that the launcher buttons still works, open Terminal and type the following:
wget www.lexaloffle.com/dl/chip/pico-8_0.2.6b_chip.zip sudo unzip pico-8_0.2.6b_chip.zip -d /usr/lib |
(the default password is: chip)
Update: I've seen instances of the launcher button pointing to both /usr/lib/pico-8 and /usr/lib/pico8. If you're still getting some older version when using the launcher button (check the boot screen), use:
sudo mv /usr/lib/pico-8 /usr/lib/pico8 |
This is the first time I've released a build for CHIP, as they were previously handled by the late Next Thing Co. In 2016 I spent a week at their workshop in Oakland, hacking out a proof of concept along with the first version of SPLORE, so that we could see how it would all fit together. It was not a large company, but everyone I met there were stand-up hackers driven to make something new and interesting. It's remarkable what they were able to achieve, and I'm glad to be able to contribute to the legacy a little by continuing support for these devices.
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