Here's a pretty minimal implementation of Conway's Game of Life for PICO-8. It has a basic performance optimization (it only updates the active area of the grid), and you can see the active area adjust by setting dbg=true at the top of the code.
That said, it gets pretty slow pretty quickly for larger simulations.
You set up the grid as follows:
Arrow keys -- move the cursor around.
Z key -- toggle a given cell to active/inactive.
X key -- start / stop the simulation.
If you're unfamiliar with the Game of Life, google it :-).
An easy starting point for a cool pattern is a ten cell contiguous row (10 connected horizontal cells).
There are better PICO-8 Game of Life carts, but I had a lot of fun making this.
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A little persona battle system concept I worked on as part of a school project, I may expand it later with different enemy types, more items, and maybe XP
Use the arrow keys to scroll the menu
Z to select
X to go back
You begin with 60HP, 30SP, and 3 medicines
Enemies have a chance of dropping a medicine after defeat
See what streak you can get!
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This is an implementation of the function described on this short paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09714 (twitter thread)
It is amenable to tweeing/easing in games. I have programmed easing functions in the past and one of the problems about them is that you need to code "families of easing functions":
(That's from tween.lua, if you are curious).
I like this function because it can aproximate all of the "smooth families of functions" on that graph (all except the "back", "bounce" and "elastic" families) with a single function, plus it adds an infinitude of variants. Not bad for ~66 tokens.
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A bird named try
My first game using pico-8, a simple platformer where you play as a bird whose only option for vertical mobility is climbing
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I decided to make a Tweetcart today and it ended up being a simple little Jack-o-Lantern generator, but I found it entertaining enough to watch that I figured I'd release it here for y'all too!
There's no controls whatsoever, it just periodically generates a new pumpkin. The quality of the expressions varies but overall I'd say they come out remarkably well.
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I'm working on a collision routine for pixel based movement (not grid movement). There's no jumping, it's a from-above perspective:
if btn(⬅️) then if intersect(pl.crect1,cage_crect) and pl.crect1.x>=cage_crect.x+1 then pl.x1+=1 end pl.x1-=1 end if btn(➡️) then if intersect(pl.crect1,cage_crect) and pl.crect1.x<=cage_crect.x then pl.x1-=1 end pl.x1+=1 end if btn(⬆️) then if intersect(pl.crect1,cage_crect) and pl.crect1.y>=cage_crect.y+1 then pl.y1+=1 end pl.y1-=1 end if btn(⬇️) then if intersect(pl.crect1,cage_crect) and pl.crect1.y<=cage_crect.y+cage_crect.h then pl.y1-=1 end pl.y1+=1 end |
This seems to work OK, but I am not sure how to adjust it so that the player can move along the object, e.g. bottom of player intersects top of object rect, and if player holds down+left the player should still move left. As it is, my code won't register anything other than the opposite direction after the initial direction that caused the collision. I had a quick search for collision examples but didn't find anything that met all my criteria (pixel based + uses collision rects, not tiles). Anyone have any pointers?
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This is the sprite sheet used in my pixel art tutorial. You can use it as reference in your pixel art studies :)
Alternatively, here's the png version:
Video in question:
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Someone help me! I have always wanted to get pico-8 but I have a chromebook. I have seen other people manage to get it on there chromebook but I know nothing about terminal, crouton, etc. So if someone could give me a step-by-step guide on how to get it on chromebook it would be much appreciated.
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A small showcase of how to generate random 2D caves using a cellular automaton. Inside the code there are some parameters worth tweaking, maybe I'll add an interface for this in a later update.
The automaton is really simple: it changes based on the majority of it's neighbours and remains unchanged when tied.
Parameters:
- width and height - self explanatory, cave will be displayed in the upper-left corner
- live and text color - coloring of the cave and the "reset" message
- iterations - more iterations of the automaton mean less small noise and more smooth walls. Over 20 will not change much.
- density - chance of a cell being dead at the start. Very susceptible to change, more will create wider corridors.
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As per title. I've made a piece of music that uses all 64 patterns, but when using the export wav option, only the first 54 patterns are dumped to wav.
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I saw several bug reports about gamepads being mapped incorrectly, but I have another issue.
One of my gamepad (a Thrustmaster Score-A) works nicely in PICO-8 on macOS, but it doesn't get recognised in the rpi build. The sdl-jstest tool recognises it in both systems.
Another pad model gets recognised on both systems, so the rpi build of PICO-8 is somewhat working.
Note: I'm using PICO-8 v.0.2.1b on both systems.
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That's a project I though I lost long ago. I was working on it on my PocketCHIP, tell you how old this is and had an issue with it and needed to reinstall everything and lost all the cart I was working on, this one was one of them, and I'm delighted that I had a copy somewhere else.
So this one is date from the 19 May 2016 (at least last modification of the file) and was at a time I was playing around trying to replicate exisiting music in PICO-8 (as for the Megaman in another cart of mine already published here) Also had fun working on replicating the screen from the original game.
I really like how the two song render in PICO-8, I'm pretty sure I started to work on some other but lost all the work :(
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An old project of mine that I never finished, I was working on the bases loop from the song used in Tetrinet, never finished it, but just found the cart and wanted to share it :)
(The cart file last modification is tagged with the date 20/07/2016)
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Grave Robert is about a guy trying to save his daughter and escape to a better life.
Features:
-Grave Robbing
-Mad Scientists
-Multipule endings
-Three difficulty levels
-Probably some spelling mistakes
Parental Guidance: PG-13 due to Adult Situations.
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SnakeLike is a modern interpretation of classic retro game "Snake". Unlike its counterpart, SnakeLike's player controls a snake that can
- Mine different resources with increasing speed for a longer snake
- Strategically sell part or all of these resources
- Buy upgrades using previously sold resources
Let me know what you think and if anything can be improved!
Gameplay:
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Ziggy Frog
Enjoy the simple life of Ziggy the frog as you help him catch flies on his log!
Controls:
- Use Z to charge the vertical power of your jump.
- Use Left and Right to charge the horizontal power of your jump.
- Use X to do one last jump and exit if you're all done playing :)
Eat flies at the peak of your jump! Each fly will give you more jumps!
There are different levels of difficulty for whatever you think seems most fun, along with a "Lazy" mode with an infinite number of jumps, if you're just looking to relax and catch some flies.
Based on a goofy mechanic my kid and I worked on together, I took some extra time to give it some polish and finish it up.
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Hello.
Suggestion.
I would like the exported file to include the current config.txt (global_config.txt) as local_config.txt in the exported file.
This will allow us to play from the creator's ideal config in another user's environment.
"global_config.txt" refers to the config.txt that I've been using.
If both global_config.txt and local_config.txt exist, local_config.txt is assumed to take precedence.
Sequence of events
A question thread containing this
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=39940
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