Hello,

I know the topic was already raised when the original (esp32 based) ODROID-Go came out but the specs of the handheld were said to be too limited.

Now Hardkernel released the successor to the Go, the Go Advanced, and this time its based on a Rockchip ARM-SoC and runs Linux. Think of it as a Raspi like SBC sitting in a Case which is meant for (retro) gaming.

Would it be feasable to support Pico8 on it? It doesnt come with a hardware keyboard nor wifi, but the console features an USB Port you can use to connect all sorts of devices including network adapters.

Product Specs:
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-go-advance/

Renoiser is a tool that let you copy music patterns and sound effects between cartridges.

When you copy music patterns all required sound effects is copied along, so the song you paste in another cartridge is complete and sound identical to the source song.

You can also move sound effects within a cartridge, and when you do that the music patterns that use those sound effects are updated so the songs remain the same.

It is also possible to move your music patterns around if you'd like.

Easy to copy songs between cartridges, complete with sound effects and instruments

Copying a song is as easy as loading the cartridge with the song you want, copy it, load the cartridge you want to paste the song into and then pasting it. Now all the patterns, sound effects and instruments are copied along.

Reorganising your sound effects and instruments

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as a lot of us are brutally aware of, pico-8's limitations are very fun, but can also have a serious impact on code readability. one particularly nasty problem is that when saving tokens, descriptive names for constant values are one of the first things to go out the window. Up till now, this was an unavoidable problem. However, with the recent introduction of the INCLUDE directive, pico-8 now has a preprocessor and a model for how preprocessor directives should work. I'd like to propose a DEFINE directive for supporting simple text substitution.

for example, let's say we are doing a simple branch based on a cel value:

 local c=mget(x,y)
 if c==4 then
  ...
 elseif c==5 then
  ...
 end

it's impossible to even guess what this code does. but it's hard to argue that adding "local health_pickup=4" is worth the tokens.

instead, if we had a DEFINE directive, we could change the above to:

 #DEFINE health_pickup 4
 #DEFINE coin_pickup 5

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picade

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picade

by ElGregos

Cart #picade-0 | 2020-02-22 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

7

Below is the original untouched Picade animation by Pimoroni:

picade_original

by ElGregos

Cart #picade_original-0 | 2020-02-22 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

7

Hi all.

I'm proud to present my very first game ever.

I'm a web dev, casual payer, and I always dreamed about making a video game. Here it is. To be fair, it's mainly a variant of the cave digger presented by Dylan BENNET in Game Development with PICO-1 #1, so huge thanks and much love to him : learning is so easier with a good teacher.

And actually, I'm even prouder to inform you I've been able to publish this game on Apple's App Store (available for free on https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wonderpiewpiew/id1499408050).

To make this possible, I developed a Capacitor based hybrid shell. I'll share it on GitHub as soon as it's documentation is ready. I hope it will help the community to show amazing games created by gifted and hard working game makers.

Cheers.
Alan

alancrevon_wonder_piew_piew

by alancrevon

Cart #alancrevon_wonder_piew_piew-0 | 2020-02-24 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

1

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dog_fight

by Sazazel

Cart #dog_fight-0 | 2020-02-24 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

4

Hi all :)

Here's a game I've been working on since my Asteroids clone a month ago.

Dogfight! is an Arcade style biplane dogfighting game.
Shoot down enemy planes!
Strafe convoys!
Kill enemy soldiers!

Controls are simple:
Left and right to rotate plane.
Z and X to fire

There's a radar of sorts on the screen that will show the direction of enemies. Just follow the dots :)

Music credit must go out to Gruber and his awesome Pico-8 Tunes Volumes :)

Have fun and I appreciate any and all feedback :)

Sazazel

Hello and welcome back. Why ultimate you say ? Because ... you're not going to like this I know, I'm leaving Pico-8. Now not permanently, but enough so that when I do return it will be to post useful utilities to help in Pico-8 that I wrote in a different language. A full-screen map editor is planned for instance as I can see that being of benefit.

And it's been quite the journey, hasn't it ?

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=15232&mode=carts&sub=2#m

All these things and many more not even written yet or shown here but nonetheless were planned for Pico-8, all set comfortably aside ...

Now I =MAY= return if @zep ever gets the ability of compiling a Pico-8 to a true and native APK, easy enough so that beginners can do it themselves. Then I might do come back for a few more gaming projects.

Failing that - just as Sega Saturn went out from the community, they went out with a slow unfailing light on their very last cart, a RPG entitled, "Magic Knight Rayearth."

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Finished my first pico game for alakajam 8!

Anywhere for you

AFY is a game about a tiny person who lost their loved one.
Enter the depths to collect flowers to honor their grave.

❤️

Controls

Move - Arrow Keys
Interact - Arrow Keys
Start Game / Confirm - X

Anywhere for you

by Odrez

Cart #anywhereforyou-2 | 2020-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

9

deep

by benjamin_soule

Cart #deep-0 | 2020-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

185

Goal :

• Reach the deepest possible and then come back to your boat.

Controls :

• (arrow keys) move around
• (z) jump / swim
• (x) take / launch hermit crab

Oxygen :

• You can swimp ( jump in ̶m̶i̶d̶a̶i̶r̶ midwater) using 50% of your current tank
• Open the clam with an hermit crab shell to refill your tank
• You have 5 oxygen tanks. Once they are all gone, you'll drown !!

sofia_ornaments

by AdamJ

Cart #sofia_ornaments-1 | 2020-02-24 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

5

Generate pretty Bulgarian-looking pictures by specifying a sequence of L-system-like rules.

• Press Z to reset the shape
• Press UP to add 1 to the rule string
• Press DOWN to add 2 to the rule string
• Press RIGHT to add 0 to the rule string
• Press X to add a random rule to the string

Rule 1: -- ==> /\ (split segment to two, move midpoint outwards)

Rule 2: -- ==> \/ (split segment to two, move midpoint inwards)

Rule 0: -- ==> -- (split segment to two, leave midpoint on the original segment)

https://geeitsomelaldy.itch.io/eva-ness-farewell-european-tour

eva_ness_farewell_europe

by geeitsomelaldy

Cart #eva_ness_farewell_europe-0 | 2020-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

2

recursive_shadowcasting

by st33d

Cart #recursive_shadowcasting-0 | 2020-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

14

What's a roguelike without some lighting? #7DRL is fast approaching so I thought I'd re-familiarise myself with pico8. I've ported shadowcasting before but someone on this forum has already done that for me. Unfortunately it's not in cart format where I can see it in action. So let's fix that.

I did some small changes:

• "cast" gets used for a lot of things so I called it fov instead
• Recursive shadowcasting calculates within a square, which looks ugly. I've added a distance check to slice off those hard corners.

Here's the url of the original post: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=28780

Obviously I'm not looking at pico8's map, just one I've generated. But one could modify it to taste. I'm also being quite wasteful because I only need to iterate through the keys in "visible", but I wanted to be certain there were no bugs and this proves the point.

zombiedungeon093

by anthonicaldwell

Cart #zombiedungeon093-0 | 2020-02-25 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

4

Zombie Dungeon

Summary

Fight your way through a small dungeon as
waves of zombies spawn and attempt to attack you.
Each wave will spawn shortly after the hourglass
ticks over. The only way to end the game is to die.

Version 0.9.3:

• Fixed Health Pack Spawns
• Reworked lighting
• Added a new menu system
• Added random dungeon modes

Author's Note

This is just a small game I made for my nephew to play.
Made in the span of about five days(3 hours each).
The code could be refactored to be much cleaner.

Notable Issues:

• Zombies that collide will usually just stop in place due to the lack of a pathing system.
• Zombies have no real pathing system, they just move towards the player.

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trmite_gen

by mia_

Cart #trmite_gen-0 | 2020-02-23 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

1

This is a very rudimentary simulation of a multi-colored Langton's Ant AKA a Turmite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmite

Controls:

Menu:
LRUD - Navigate the menu
Z - Toggle buttons on menu
X - Start simulation

Simulation:
Left - decrease simulation speed
Right - increase simulation speed
X - back to menu

Combinations to try!
-LR: this is the classic Langton's Ant automata
-LRRL: this is a symmetrical automata
-RLR: a chaotic automata that seems to have no recognizeable pattern

Let me know if you find any cool patterns :)

is it possible to create a await function?

for example..

if await(60,"my identifer") then
 --done
end

here is my code

function await(t,id)
  if not cofun[id] then
    --don't know how to return true here
    add(cofun,cocreate(function()
      while t>0 do
        t-=1
	yield()
      end
    end))
  else
   return false
  end	
end

function coupdate()
 for c in all(cofun) do
  if costatus(c) then
    coresume(c)
  else
    del(cofun,c)
  end
 end
end

EDIT: idk if this is possible but maybe something like this..

--id is determined by function execution index
if await(60) then
 --done
end

for example..

await(60)--await id 0
await(60)--await id 1
await(60)--await id 2
--nextframe
await(60)--await id 0
await(60)--await id 1
await(60)--await id 2

zuwifamejo

by Munro

Cart #zuwifamejo-3 | 2021-02-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

1

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0123456789:;<=>?
@abcdefghijklmno
pqrstuvwxyz[]^_
`abcdefghijklmno
pqrstuvwxyz{|}~○
█▒🐱⬇️░✽●♥☉웃⌂⬅️😐♪🅾️◆
…➡️★⧗⬆️ˇ∧❎▤▥あいうえおか
きくけこさしすせそたちつてとなに
ぬねのはひふへほまみむめもやゆよ
らりるれろわをんっゃゅょアイウエ
オカキクケコサシスセソタチツテト
ナニヌネノハヒフヘホマミムメモヤ
ユヨラリルレロワヲンッャュョ◜◝

Snor...

by dms_students

Cart #zedhinato-2 | 2020-05-24 | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

4

We updated the game you can now reach a boss

My first-ever game, Foxcatsquirrel, is out now for Pico-8!

🍦🍪🍔 Chomp tasty food in quick arcade action

💫💀🦆 Repel enemies with your shockwave

🎼🎵🎧 Hum irritatingly catchy music!

Can you finish all five levels and get on the high-score table?

Thanks to this forum's own grumpydev for the fantastic high-score table code that let me finally call this game complete!

December 2022 update: Now running at 60fps!

Foxcatsquirrel

by daddynewts

Cart #foxcatsquirrel-5 | 2022-12-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

17

boilerplate

by pizza_boys

Cart #boilerplate-0 | 2020-02-22 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

3

This is a WIP boilerplate that I hope to use for upcoming games and update as I progress. It may be useful for other beginners out there as it is organised, features simple states (based on Nerdy Teachers improved menu tutorial - https://nerdyteachers.com/Explain/MainMenu2/) and some bits and pieces learned from building my first game COVID-19 -> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=36863

It also features some modified print functions courtsey of Sparr's GitHub (https://github.com/sparr/pico8lib) and shout outs to everyone from the discord!

Hit me up with any comments, improvements or suggestions.