Version 1.1
- Score system implemented
- Bugfix: Defeating a boss after dying (or vice versa) is now impossible
- Bugfix: Boss health bar now properly disappears after using a continue
Witch Loves Bullets is a side-scrolling shoot'em up, containing 4 levels and boss battles.
It features varied enemies, a couple of powerups and parallax scrolling.
The game now has a score system with a combo multiplier,
so defeating enemies in succession will grant you more points !
Press C to shoot, and X to use your secondary weapon.
The music was composed by Dustin van Wyk (@WykDustin) and transformed by me into Pico-8 chiptune.

Practice the dying art of jelly-craft and help run the best (and only) jelly cafe in town!
Use the arrow keys to move and the x key to interact with machines. Mix the correct jelly to order, and use the right boxing glove to serve.
Made for the 2019 #lowrezjam .
I'm quite pleased with this, it's my first proper pico-8 game, so any feedback would be fantastic.

I was reading earlier about the Fisher-Yates Shuffle method and - well, I'm a little confused. What is the purpose of its complexity ?
I mean if you just want to shuffle a deck of cards, for instance, you can do so in code as simple as this:
-- simple card shuffler
-- written by dw817
-- initialize variables
deck={}
rank="a23456789tjqk"
suit="schd"
-- build sorted deck
for i=0,3 do
for j=0,12 do
deck[j+i*13]=sub(rank,j+1,j+1)..sub(suit,i+1,i+1)
end
end
::again::
-- display current deck
cls()
for i=0,3 do
for j=0,12 do
print(deck[j+i*13],j*10,i*8,13)
end
end
print("press a key to shuffle",0,64,7)
repeat
flip()
until btnp(🅾️)
-- shuffle that deck
for i=0,51 do
r=flr(rnd()*52)
deck[i],deck[r]=deck[r],deck[i]
end
goto again
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A bit of generative art study of "that S thing".
Based on the JS version made by @potch: https://twitter.com/potch/status/1162601613057413121

I was curious to know if it was possible to recode the key to pause a cart during runtime. That is, directly in the source-code itself.
If you go to make a program that asks your name and reads the real keyboard via poke 24365,1, if you hit letter "P" it will pause with an interrupt menu. Is there some way, in code, poke or otherwise, to reconfigure the pause key to something like "ESC" or backwards apostrophe "`" ?
How can this be done ?

Hey!
I made a little game using PICO-8's "mode 3" for the LOWREZJAM 2019 and Climate Change Jam!
If you only read one thing, this is it: Press enter for the menu where you can disable the help text!
Oh no! The rising waters has made a mess of Don's beach-house. Help him rebuild it - just chop down a tree and extract some rocks and find a nice place by the sea.
Use arrows to move, Z (or C or N) to toggle harvest mode (then arrow to harvest) and X (or V or M) to build the house.
Note that you can chop down and extract as many resources as you want.
You control two cats, Sugar (blue) and Spice (pink).
Help them get their respective color donuts.
Sugar - left and right arrow keys
Spice - S and F
This was my submission for the 2019 lowrez gamejam.
I followed the "Fruit Drop" tutorial from NerdyTeachers to make this tiny co-op game.
My very first finished game, was loads of fun to make. Can't wait to make more
different types of games as I gain more experience!
Feel free to use this game as you please.

EDIT: A few people expressed that they could use some more time for the jam. So I extended the dates on itch to through the 18th; that should still allow a nice 13 Days of Halloween to play entries, right?
I've been working on a spooky 4 color thing with friend Pako. Watch this space for updates on that soon. And... beware!
Spooky September Jam!
It's time for the annual Halloween jam! This time a bit early -- the idea is that if we make spooky (or spoopy) games from now until September... we'll get to actually play them in October! :D
If you remember URL the 3 Color Jam from a couple years ago, this is going to be a 'sequel' to that -- the limitation this time is 4 colors -- whoooooo!!
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Steve Johanson has disappeared and his girlfriend Sally Franklin has hired your detective agency to locate him. Even before you get on the scene there are signs that maybe this isn't just a simple missing persons case. Can you crack it? Explore Anteform Valley and its settlements, talk to its residents, search desks and files, and build up your skills as you collect clues to figure out what really happened to Steve and maybe even prevent it from happening again.
This is a sci-fi / horror detective story RPG in the style of the old-school 8-bit Ultima games as they were found on the C128. I hope you enjoy it.
It exhausts many of the resources available to a PICO-8 app, and required minimization before it could be converted into a cartridge (in fact this version fits with just one byte to spare). The

After some time of figuring everything out (including what I want to do in the future regarding the path of my life), I finally finished another snippet. This lets you efficiently create particles, as seen in this gif here:
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Aprox. 480 Tokens
DOWNLOADS
- ptc_x.lua
- ptc_x_c (compressed)
DOCUMENTATION:
IMPORTING
Assuming you've placed the downloaded file into a folder called src, import with
#include src/ptc_x.lua |
The compressed version doesn't have an extension, so just use src/ptc_x_c without .lua
CREATE A GROUP
You can create a particle group like so.
g_smp=_pgrp(64,64) |
now, g_smp will become a particle group and will be positioned at 64/64 (center of screen with unmodded camera).
GROUP TABLE VALUES

This cart is a few things:
It’s a branching music demo featuring music from Robby Duguay’s excellent “Nine Songs in PICO-8” cart.
It’s a proof of concept for my PICO-8 dynamic music engine, which I have dubbed “Zero-Track”.
And finally, this cart is an invitation:
If you write music and would like to try out writing something non-linear for the PICO-8, feel free to drop me a line; it would be awesome to work with music written explicitly for this sort of use.
If you are working on a game and would like to include music dynamically tied to what's happening in the game, I'd love to see if my music engine could be a good fit for your game, as well.

Version 0.2
Pros
- Ledges (top only).
- Moving platforms.
- Crates that can push crates on moving platforms whilst you stand on top.
- Reads the map as level geometry.
- The above features can be removed to retrieve tokens.
- Can probably be optimised.
Cons
- No slopes.
- 2618 tokens (the raw engine is 1711 but you still need to make a player, enemies, update, etc).
- First come, first served resolution: You only get 1 collision contact (you have to be creative to get more).
Updates
Updated this page and rewrote the engine to use less tokens and be more extendable. Only saved 252 tokens sadly but every little helps.

While starting work on my little deflektor project I decided to have classic 7 segment led style numbers, my first iteration (the one currently in the game...) is based on sprites but I wanted something a bit more versatile. This is a basic line drawing small library to handle 7 segment led like any digit length display. It should be fairly easy to define a text set and draw 7 segment text desplays (just need a table with the segment mapping for every letter and put up a wrapping function that receives a text and not a number)
It supports background displaying of segments ("off" segments), color configuration and segment width configuration. The cart includes the library and a very basic demo on what it can do
I might be working on reducing token size a bit (library itself is around 300 tokens) and I think there's some salvageable space there, but don't count on it for now
Hope it helps someone out needing a 7 segment style display






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