Controls
Trackball (or mouse) to move
A,S,D to fire bases
For a simpler game, just use X (or mouse click) to fire from the center base
Full mouse capture isn't available in the web player but I've compiled a Windows executable on itch.io:
https://pahammond.itch.io/missile-command
Missile Command: A Pure Arcade Game Demade
A think I played Missile Command once in the arcades in the 80s. I remember liking the idea but didn't have the skills ,or an abundance of loose change to improve, so I promptly gave up and moved on to something else.
Early in 2021, a late Christmas present from my wife arrived: Missile Commander by Tony Temple. It was a great read and I became mildly obsessed with Missile Command and decided to work on this Pico-8 version.
First I bought a trackball to get into the spirit or the original. Next I played the MAME version for a few days.
Researching an old game is part of the fun for me and thankfully I discovered this excellent "MISSILE COMMAND DEEP DIVE" article:
http://www.retrogamedeconstructionzone.com/2019/11/missilie-command-deep-dive.html
I'm pretty happy with the result. To me at least, it captures the spirit of the original. In a chunky 128x128 pixel sort of way anyway ;)
Enjoy.
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Another season, another terrain generator.
Below is an old version of the pipeline that was used for the generator. This has since been reworked a bit to add features.
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Game Released, please see this-> post
Stage 1 and 2 of my R-Type pico-8 port, showing all game and graphic system working.
Music once again courtesy of the great @dhostin (YouryKiki) based on Masato Ishizaki's original score
What's new
Stage 2 and stage selector
Some players complained about the difficulty due to restricted play area so I made the following changes:
- slower enemy bullets and fire rate
- small tweaks to soem enemy placement
- when you respawn, no enemies already onscreen
Since this is a tech demo, i left some debug options available:
- press W to pause scrolling and become invincible
- once invincible press S and F to scroll through the stage
- D to show/hide collision boxes
- Q to summon the force and change its type
- E to change the force power
Transparent explosions!
Using PicoDraw routines for more graphic elements (weapons/UI)
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I decided to cover the "Console Wars" web series' intro tune, and make a little PICO-8 cartridge to go along with it. Since there's no real gameplay, I guess it's kind of like a demo, but it doesn't really stretch the PICO-8 capabilities in any noticable way or do anything impressive. Just a thing I did for fun.
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Hello, I did my first cartridge.
Better with controllers.
This game is a 2 player snowball fight. The 2 players are separated by a river, the game end when a player without shield is hit once, when a game finish a new game start automatically. Use ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬅️ ➡️ to move, 🅾️ to shoot. Players start with 5 ammo and gain 5 other when they pick up an ammo bonus. If a player is on a pile of snow, he can use ❎ to build a snowman, this take 0.5 second without move or shoot and the snowman's body (not head) block the way of player but he block the way of 20 snowball before breaking down. Each 3 seconds, a bonus fall along the river, hit it for gain it, there is 3 kinds of bonus:
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I just found that the Shift + Enter shortcut doesn't work after the 'else' keyword. I know it was supposed to be context aware, I see it properly adds 'until' after 'repeat' which is nice, but this case seems to have been omitted in the update which makes coding slightly annoying.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a (not so useful) feature, because it's consistent with the changelog which states that as of 0.2.2b:
> shift+enter in code editor only auto-completes block for DO, THEN, REPEAT or FUNCTION
and not ELSE. If this is intended I'll move the post to the workshop section as a feature request.
Version: 0.2.2c
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On my linux machine I use a window manager that swaps between tabs using win + tab number. PICO-8 treats win same as ctrl and if I have PICO on tabs 6 through 9 it makes screenshots, gifs and label images when I switch to (or sometimes from) it. In config there's an option to disable this functionality with function keys F6 through F9, but I would like it to work ONLY on function keys or just not recognise win as ctrl, though I might be the only one. Til then I'll keep PICO-8 on tab 5.
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March 2025 update
It's been a while since I touched Solid Rogue, but here I am! I just wanted to put my final version here for the fans, but I've also uploaded it to itch.io if you want to give me money :) Those in the know (with a copy of pico-8) can export native files and see the source already, but I've provided those on the itch page for folks who want to support my work.
Thanks again to everyone who played it, and I'd love to see some top clear times ;)
-Mike
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\ PICO RANGERS!! /
Press z to explode!
Keep pressing x to pause and play theme music.
You can make TOKUSATSU at any time and anywhere.
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Guys! Portal 3 finally came ou-
I mean uh, look at this new game, Wormhole!
[punchline]
I take no credit for portals, the musical phrases, emancipation grills, or anything else Aperture Science would copyright me for.
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