When I was a kid in the 80's I loved the shareware version of Spacewar that we had. I stumbled across it recently and figured doing a remake could be a fun project, so here's my version! Two player, no AI mode or planet/star (not yet anyways, those might be coming in version 2.0 if I can figure out how to do it). Most of it I came up with on my own, but I lifted the sprite rotation function off of someone wholesale and haven't yet tracked down whose it was to give proper credit.
Feedback welcome, thanks :)
Edit 9/25/19:
Updated some things including art tweaks (ship sprites redesign, fire/exhaust color change) a bug fix (fixed a bug causing lasers not to display when more than 10 torpedos were on the screen) and some mathematical tweaking.
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Russian roulette is a lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against his head, and pulls the trigger.
You are Roskomnadzor mascot, RKN-Chan, you censor and ban everything on the Internet, but you finally find out that your own life was not blocked in Russia yet, you need to fix this as soon as possible!
Anyway, you won't survive to your retirement, so now your only option is to earn your own pension playing this lethal game, shooting empty rounds and banking the rewards. Everyone dies (except your beloved president), so go ahead!
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Hello.
Could someone help me with this please ? I'm trying to understand how this works.
var={}
var["playhp"]=500
var["playname"]="patrick"
var["wepname"]="dagger"
var["wepstr"]=2
for i in all(var) do
print(i.." "..var)
end
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And yes, I know I can use:
var={["playhp"]=500,["playname"]="patrick",["wepname"]="dagger",["wepstr"]=2}
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But I want to be able to iterate each item per line and in any order, and the ability to remove them as well.
var["playhp"]=nil |
And to recall a value: print(var."playhp") returns 500. And ability to recall a value be reference:
varname="playhp"
print(var.@varname) also to return 500.
And print(#var) to return 4, currently returns 0 (zero).
Thanks in advance !
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In the Elven country life is hard for architects.
You have been proven guilty in a murky affair about bridge collapse and the elf King sentenced you to survive on a very small island in the acid lake of Torgründ.
Of course acid level is rising everyday and your only solution is to build a tower to escape a terrible death.
Thanks to gods, stones are literally falling from the sky in this region, so it should not be a problem for you.
CONTROL :
- arrow keys : move your architect
- (z) jump
- (x) + wall : kick or destroy a wall
- (x) + up : build a ladder ( consume one plank )
- (x) in the air : build a wooden floor.
TIPS
ladders and wooden floors can earn you gems if you do them right.
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You ever have that moment when somebody tells you something and you SORT OF get it but not really, and then later, maybe a day or two you cry out, "Ah ha !" because then you understand it ?
Well I'm not going to claim full knowledge of the YIELD() command, but I will tell you what it CAN do - at least for me.
I can take any program I've written to date and make it OOPS very simply.
Replace all FLIP() with YIELD(), then make a coroutine to run my MAIN() function. Done.
But it goes beyond this. Since I can now join the ranks of _DRAW() and _UPDATE() this means I can write a custom background engine that operates exactly as I like it.
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2 player pong game I made.
Player 1 (left) uses Z/X for up/down.
Player 2 uses U/D arrows.
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Demo of PUMA industrial robot kinematics.
The user can move the Tool Center Point (TCP) and the robot will follow.
The demo operates in three modes:
- Camera mode (rotate the camera)
- Motion mode (move the TCP)
- Rotation mode (rotate the TCP)
The inverse kinematic (IK) problem is the problem of calculating such joint angles that the robot TCP takes the proper position and orientation.
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Years ago I had written a QBasic program for Gina in Taiwan. In it, it imploded the map of Texas along with a greeting. When you ran it, it had the pixels come from all sides of the screen to implode the image I put in there.
Now you can do the same thing in Pico-8 !
Create any picture you want, call initexplosion() then explosion(1,flag) Flag to 1 if you want to skip seeing the explosion and only want to calculate for it. Then you are ready. Now call explosion(-1,0) to see the neat implosion effect of the image you put in there.
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I first off wanted to let you know that I was just experimenting recording some .GIFs in PICO when I noted that the last .GIF I made was 6.49mb in size.
I loaded this up in VirtualDUB to check each frame in it, to make sure it looked alright, and then tried saving it back as an EXPORT .GIF to compare filesizes.
The filesize THEN was only 209k ! A 97% reduction !
I compared both. None miss frames, none have any distortion. They are the same EXCEPT that VirtualDUB has some massive compression going on there !
So ... Zep, someone, anyone ? the .GIF saver in current PICO-8 can definitely be optimized. No doubt about it. VirtualDUB was written 19-years ago - so it's not something new.
I can't upload the 6.49mb GIF in comparison here, says the filesize is too big.
Here is the 209k GIF though so you can see it's not missing anything. There's definitely good compression going on there !
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Hi, I'm new to Pico-8. I'm wondering if any of you ever configured a Joy Bonnet (Pi Zero) to play Pico-8 games.
I'm thinking of doing it myself, but I probably need some guidance at first.
So, how do you think I should do it?
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Sybil's Tail is a tiny, 15-30 minute long platformer made for PICO-8. Run, jump, slide, grab, and toss your way through 6 bite-sized areas as you search for a mysterious meteorite that fell nearby!
hi there!! after 4 months of working on it, I've finally finished my first PICO-8 game, Sybil's Tail! this project was a lot of fun to work on, and getting everything to fit into the 32k of cart space required a lot of tricks to make things work right. a large reason it took so long was all the rewriting and compressing it took to get in all in there. but! the result is exactly the game I set out to make! I hope y'all enjoy exploring this little 8-bit world I've made.
it's also on itch here, which includes native exports, and the soundtrack. speaking of, I would like to extend special thanks to @kitorchid, who made the incredible cover art for the soundtrack, and @osmoru, whose adorable artwork formed the basis of the cartridge label design. In addition to those commissions, I also received wonderful artwork of Sybil from @MarziManed and @_pexl, who are both very cool artists that you should check out as well! And of course, I would like to thank all testers and of course my friends, without them none of this would have been possible.
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Hi, my name is Chase, but you can call me Cheez...or even Scorch for that matter.
I am a musician who hopes to learn how to develop for the Pico-8. I've been making music since 2014, but didn't really take off until 2016. It's been great.
I also suffer from anxiety and I tend to get nervous and stuff. So, yeah.
I hope to have fun with you all though.
Sincerely,
Cheez
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press z to mark point
press x to engage the wiggle
check menu (enter) for various options!
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Hi everyone. During the 3rd GameShell Game Jam, I and my friends made a tiny puzzle game named SHIFT, and it is also the theme of the game jam. We spent about four to five days in all making the mechanism, levels, and the music.
The game combined the Sokoban mechanism with "shift", which you can move into the wall area when your shift ability is enabled. Your goal is to move onto the tile which looks like a teleporter or something. The current version features 16 levels. None of us are experienced game dev, so this game may feel a little bit weird, but I hope you could enjoy playing it.
Control:
O to toggle the shift ability.
X to undo.
You could restart the level in the pause menu.
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so this is the basic working version of a space shooter by Indy aged 7; more versions with added bits to come!!
arrow buttons to fly, c button to shoot
when game is over, press enter and select restartcart to try again
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I don't think anyone will seriously read this, I'm a nobody and I never blog here.
However, it's a tad frustrating that there seems to be an overabundance of Celeste mods within the normal places to release carts which makes me wonder if maybe Pico8 BBS needs a section just for game mods?
I think it would help fix a little of the clutter. I look at what appears to be a new game then after I get into the thread, I find out it's a mod of a game I already played.
It's just something I was thinking about and there's no place on the forum to speak to this so I figured I'd just mention it into the air for it to disappear forever. :)
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