Hey, everyone! This is a little game I developed in August of last year. I'm a beginner hobbyist game developer, and love the idea of creating games for a limited platform. This is my first completed creation for PICO-8, had a lot of fun building it.
In Cat Catcher 0 you must catch stray cats that are running rampant around the town and causing mischief. Try not to let any of them escape!
Please share your impressions and opinions!
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I want more information on filling chests ith items(sword,armour,bow) randomly.
I wish to do this with a table called items made up on tables for each item like this
function chest_setup()
(here the tables of each item)
end
function bow_setup()
b={}
b.range=3
b.arrows=5
end |
This with all the items
How would I do this?
Any help will be mostly appreciated
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What does it mean when I get this symbol?
It seems to me to be an Unknown Error sign because every time I get it I don't know why. And all I know is its an Error sign. So I'm assuming its an Unknown Error sign. The only time I get it often is When I'm playing this one game I forgot the name to and who its made by.
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Well, I'm trying to make a rhythm game and I want the enemies to change sprite (To look as they were dancing) and attack following the tempo of the current song. It's my first game and I don't know too much about code or how pico-8 works. I tried to make a T variable that add one to its current value each frame and to use a the "%" operator to sync the frame counter to the beat but it's hard to do it that way and I feel like it doesn't sync too well. Can anyone help me to code it?
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This is a tribute/demake to the original, oldschool Commander Keen games! Still very much a work in progress. The first level is done. Updated 12/30/2020
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A River Rumble Arena Shooter for 1-4 players
Dive into rivers to rush downstream and get the jump on your opponents!
[Controls]
Arrow keys to move
Z - Shoot
X - Drop bomb
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I was wondering even though we can't make online games(Or I think we can't), Can we at least make games with battle royale and making the opponents bots? And I mean by battle royale I mean like Fortnite if you play Fortnite
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Shards of Destiny
A lovingly crafted, nostalgic pico-size RPG adventure
Overview
This is my second game jam game, and second Pico-8 game (I'll get around to publishing the first one at some point). It was a frantic development in early mornings and late evenings for four days, but I got it into a more or less playable shape. Then I worked on it for about one month, making it less bare-bones and more of a game. It's a very tiny open-world RPG with light puzzles, dungeons and a very vague and generic (on purpose) back story. It basically combines the look of early Ultimas with my take on very light RPG/adventure gameplay. Pico-8 is basically the perfect platform for this type of game, and I've already got ideas for a sequel :)
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My first Pico-8 game! Super simple, excited to learn more about Pico. Originally I wanted to make more of a bullet hell game, but with my limited knowledge and my goal of finishing in a single night, that wasn't feasible. So, I cut back on scope and leaned more into a weirder, shorter, more experimental game.
Programming, Art, and Music by me.
Use the Arrow Keys to try and find love. X and C don't have a function in this game.
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Banana Chase is a fast-paced arcade maze game or 'collect'em up' where you are Monty, a very hungry monkey. Eat your way through 28 levels of fruit-based action as you uncover the mystery of the magical forest.
•Chain together combos of fruit to get the most points.
•Don't eat mushrooms!
•Two difficulties, Easy and Hard.
•Five different types of fruit to eat.
•Three different enemies, learn the tricks and tactics to circumvent them.
•28 levels, explore the magic forest and complete the wizard's quest.
•Complete the game in the fastest time.
X - Advance chat, hide UI
Z - Level skip
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About Me
Hi, my name is Evmank2k, and I am just learning how to make games in Pico-8. I am young (not allowed to share age) and would appreciate any help from expert game makers on how I can make my game better.
Pixel Parkour
Pixel Parkour is my attempt at making a new type of game, where the character is just one pixel, and all the hazards are identified by colors. I like these types of games, as they are quick to play, and allow me to use my imagination to interpret what the colors mean. I have discussed with my Dad, and we both agree that everyone who plays these may see the colors as different to them. For example, for me orange may mean lava, but for someone else, it may mean fire.
How to Play
Simple, you are the peach pixel. Use left and right arrows to move the character left or right. Down arrow digs (if the block can be dug). Up arrow makes your character climb.
Feedback
Please leave your feedback on how I can improve the game. All comments welcome.
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Back to 2016! This is a demo @castpixel (also on twitter ) and I made in the weeks leading up to Tokyo Demo Fest 2016, as newly formed group: POD. Because it was made in a hurry, I felt I should tidy up the code before posting it. But that's never going to happen, so here's an even messier post-compo version with a few extra details added instead! The rotating orbycube effect can now be found in /demos though if you'd like to see roughly how it works. Also, if you're curious you can find the compo version with: load #orbys_compo
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Hi,
I'm trying to implement a simple Component Entity System. The amount of systems (which are actually functions) is getting bigger, and I'm putting them in a table to iterate over to avoid implementing back and forth.
However, my iterator function using all(t) does not work at all.
Here's the structure of my systems:
updatesystems = {
system1 = function(t) [...] end,
system2 = function(t) [...] end,
system3 = function(t) [...] end,
system4 = function(t) [...] end,
} |
t is a table which includes raw data of all entities.
This is my current codes, which work:
function _update()
updatesystems.system1(world)
updatesystems.system2(world)
updatesystems.system3(world)
updatesystems.system4(world)
end |
What I would like to do
function _update()
for system in all(updatesystems) do
system(world)
end
end |
And I have no idea why it doesn't work. None of the systems updates.
Any suggestion?
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Ok,I understand, you are tired of this game. I hace published, once,twice, (three billion times)
I uderstand all that, but this is a demo of a much bigger game I am working on, The Final Monk.
This game includes only a few of the features of all the features the final one will have.
Please give it a try, and if you win post it.
The bow will only kill animals when they are in attack position
This one includes healh, but spikes will just kill you. The chrono up there tells you how much time you have before you run out of water
Hope you enjoy
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I often find myself declaring a lot of arrays/object literals that are essentially just data. No computation involved.
For example:
-- background types
bg_tree={
tex={
{sx=0,sy=64,sw=32,sh=32}
},
w=2,h=2,
spacing=2
}
bg_lamp={
tex={
{sx=0,sy=32,sw=16,sh=8}
},
w=.5,h=.25,
spacing=2,
trans=12
}
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It's a useful way to create flexible, extendable systems.
Unfortunately it quickly chews through the token count.
So I was wondering what people's views were of changing the token counting rules around such object literals? - say 1 token per object literal.
They would have to be restricted in order to qualify for a reduced token count, i.e. data only, no computation, functions etc, similar to how JSON is a restricted subset of JavaScript.
The compiler could either detect this automatically, or possibly a new "data only literal" syntax could be introduced.
I feel like this probably aligns with the PICO-8 principals, as it's arguably data rather than code, and you still have the compressed size limit. It seems like a much cleaner solution than the string shredding/JSON parsing workarounds that are currently used.
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A quick post-bubble bobble version of a Dr Mario (or DS Germ Busters) style puzzler.
Controls
Arrow keys to move left and right
[O] and [X] to rotate (Z and X on the keyboard)
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Hi! new here. This is my third demo in PICO, a classic demoscene effect. I tried giving some shading using tline(), but failed.. I need more practice! :P
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Here's a little experiment for a technique to render water with some very rough-and-ready sprites.
It works by simply using memcpy to copy rows of pixels from the screen memory straight to another location in the screen memory, using some simple offset calculations.
After that a rectfill is used with the newly (ish) revealed bitmask poke to cheaply tint the water area.
There's a few rough edges and caveats - namely the water area (defined as a rectangle needs to ideally be aligned on a 2-pixel boundary, since it's copying whole bytes of screen data at a time and a single byte contains 2 pixles.
Secondly using a bitmask is cheap but crude in that you don't have complete control over the result since it depends on what is being reflected. However for water I think it ends up fine.
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I wondered why I was not logged in when opening some links, but I was logged in in other tabs.
Found out that the website answers to both lexaloffle.com and www.lexaloffe.com, but logged in status is not shared.
Possible solutions:
- change cookies to be valid for both variants
- pick one variant as canonical and redirect transparently
Thanks!
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The enlisted have arrived! Properly trained! Will follow commands just as you tell them. No stupid ideas! The war will be won by following chain of command! Let's conquer that hill...
This is my third Pico-8 game, loosely inspired by Lemmings. You are in charge of guiding a squad of marines to capture and bring back the enemy flag. They will only do what you tell them, for better or worse...
This is a mouse cursor game, but you can also use the virtual mouse cursor with the keyboard controls. It is possible to finish all missions without losing a single marine, but that will require some precision maneuvering and luck.
My previous Pico-8 games are
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