I joined the itch.io 'Secret Santa Jam' this year, where you get anonymously paired with a random stranger and create a small game for them based on a letter about their interests.
Part of my giftee's prompt was "I like playing games that make me think and involve some kind of strategy e.g. card games like Magic the Gathering [...] I am a huge football fan. I support Manchester United in England and Borussia Dortmund in Germany. I have a rubbish Windows laptop, so any game that can run in browser works best for me.".
I let inspiration guide me from there and here's the small puzzle / tactics game I came up with.
Sadly, there are no sound effects or background music as I ran out of time and wanted to ensure I gave them something playable by the deadline, but maybe I'll come back to it some day...
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Update 020322
- Previously, extra lives were given at 200/400/600/800/1000 points. Now the first extra life is given at 300, and then every 400 points with no upper limit. The player can keep up to 8 lives.
- Cutscene intervals are extended, appearing at every 1000 pts.
- High score cap is removed.
- And while at it, a little more embellishment on the title screen.
I wanted to go to bed, but somehow my brain thought of this change, and I couldn't fall asleep without letting this out of my system by implementing it.
Update 022020
- Slight revision to the text to tie in with its plot sequel Bomba Cum Laude.
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Happy Holidays, everyone! This cartridge is my addition to the 2021 PICO-8 Advent Calendar, which you should also check out if you haven't already!
Controls
- LEFT/RIGHT: Slow down or speed up. It is vital to get the right speed for some jumps
- O (Z/C): Jump. You can get more height by going fast and/or holding the button longer.
- X: To restart after crashing.
This game gets reasonably tricky; especially from level 3. But if you can reach the end, you'll get a simple ending along with your total time and number of restarts. The randomish elements in the game (you'll see what I mean) are actually deterministic, so it's possible to form strategies and optimise your time, if that's your cup of tea.
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I'm trying to make a tentacle using sin().
I want the base (the top circle) to be static, and the wiggle of the tentacle to get stronger until it reaches the tip (the bottom circle).
So far I have only achieved a pendulum
I'm not that good with math so I'm not sure about how to do it
here's my code
function _init() length=20 x=64 y=40 end function _draw() cls() for i=0,length do circfill(x+sin(time())*i,y+i*4,length-i,14) end end |
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Here's a little mod I made of Celeste Classic for Christmas. It's a sequel to the last mod I made. I hope you like it :)
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This is the story of a hard working Christmas elf. I was never told their name. I call them Blinky. They had one last task to complete late one Christmas Eve: String some lights, plug them in, and connect them to the finial atop the tree. Easy for a smart elf like Blinky. Too bad they never finished that electrician's course...
Game Play
Connect the loose bulbs by touching them with the exposed wire from the light string. Loose bulbs are always safe, but if the string is connected to power and you touch the string to itself, some of the bulbs will explode. Electricity is powerful, but dangerous. Be careful with it.
There are three possible endings and eleven achievements to earn.
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Made for Jame Gam Christmas Edition - 2021
This is my first, complete game!!
I would've like to have done music but ran out of time. I joined with only 2 days to go and it was a mad dash to finish. I can think of many things that I can do better next time (the code is really wonky. What a great learning experience! I welcome all comments and criticisms!
Thanks for playing!
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SANTA'S DRONES
Have you ever wondered why you never received that Christmas present you always wanted? Maybe Santa Claus needs an updgrade to keep up with the demographic expansion of the last years. That old magic sled won't be able to carry all the presents anymore, so some lost packet is inevitable at some point! Become a Santa's drone to deliver all the lost presents in order to save Christmas and bring back the Joy to the world!
-> I believe Christmas is much more that receiving a present, btw xD
New in v.3!
- Button x has the same functionality as the up arrow during the game. This is much better for touch controls and retro-handhelds <3
- Added "+x" text when joy is collected
- Each skin is associated with a main and a secondary colors that customize the look of presents and texts
- Added more dynamism to the pile of presents carried around by drones
- Improved the player's movement in the horizontal direction
- Added a particle effect that follows the player's movements
Screenshots
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I'm unable to paste gfx into the bbs anymore. The ones I have in one of my cartridges are broken as well.
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This is my first game, Ive been learning to make stuff in pico8, it's really fun and versatile- so here's a small chill game...
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Edit (30th Dec 2021):
I have tested this further, and it happens only when the laptop is running on battery power. On mains power, the Pico-8 window continues to draw new frames.
I have looked through the power and sleep options and power plan settings and (other than telling the screen to never turn off) do not see anything that stands out as relevant.
Original post below.
Workaround: Minimise and restore Pico-8.
Issue:
I recently set my laptop to turn the screen off when it wasn't in use for a couple of minutes.
When the screen comes back on, Pico-8 appears frozen. The first couple of times this happened I thought Pico-8 had crashed, but then I realised I could minimise and restore it to get it to start refreshing its screen again.
As this can look like a crash, it's probably something that should be fixed if possible.
I'm presuming there's a missed screen event handler, but if it's a more complex issue, and if it's any help tracking this down: I'm running pico-8 0.2.4, on a Windows 10 machine. It's a Dell laptop with an i3 processor.
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