use arrow keys to jump along the lily pads!
if you are fast you can jump twice on lily pads :-)
this game has 22 stages, you can beat them all if you try!
(created for Mini Jam 106 on itch.io)
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PICO Composer v0.3
Changes
PICO Composer main menu
When you start the cart you'll be prompted to load an album or create a new one. Use the up/down arrow keys to navigate the menu and enter to select. Either, or both, of the tempo and time signature can be left blank and you'll be given the defaults of 120 bpm and a 4/4 time signature. Any time signature that can't be parsed properly will default to 4/4.
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not a game. spinning triangle cart.
how to play: 🅾️ or ❎ to eat. 🅾️❎ to burp. or quit.
inspired: play "alone in pico" cart, tried to render triangle and made this.
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Answer: Quite a few! But you probably have better options.
I've previously seen PICO-8 decoders for hex and base-64 strings. Recently I was curious: which base is most efficient? There are a lot more possibilities than just 16 or 64, and I knew PICO-8's code compression would affect the actual efficiency.
So I ran an experiment.
The experiment: I wrote a script to generate a bunch of .p8 files containing random data, and I exported them all through PICO-8 v0.2.2c to see how long the random data could get before PICO-8 would complain. The random data was in the form of strings in a given base: e.g., for base 16, the cart's entire program was x="(random hex string)". I generated these carts from base 2 (just "0" and "1") up to base 92 (almost every printable ASCII character). I ran several trials for each base because using random strings causes some variation in the measurements. I then counted the theoretical information content of each string (e.g., log-base-2 of the alphabet size) and converted the average for each base to kilobytes.
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Saving a project with save @url at https://www.pico-8-edu.com/ does not include the map.
Steps to reproduce
- Open https://www.pico-8-edu.com/
- Type
load - Select a cartridge with a map, for example
- Type
save @url - Copy the URL in the browser and open in a new tab. (URL in my case)
- Observe that the map data is missing (code and sprites are not missing)
Expected result
In 6, I expect the map data to be present like in the original cartridge and in step 3.
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I was doing some table comparing logic like so:
local a,b = {},{}
local t = a
if not t==b then
?"!",7
end |
And using the not operator can trip you up cause it's not testing against the whole bool==bool (I think..?)
but instead (not bool)==bool!
Anyways I was stuck on this problem for hours and I wanted to let other's be aware if they're not.
Thanks to @pancelor for figuring it out and helping me.
(it turns out I just wanted to do
if t~=b then -- ... end |
)
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Hello!
I have had PICO-8 a while, but never really used it until I watched aarthificial's YouTube video about pixel art. I wanted to try around with a bit of pixel art myself, so I did my 16x8 sized version of the heroine in the sprite editor. Then I remembered playing "Bionic Commando" on my friend's Amiga as a kid, and a long love of Portal means that I started work on this game over the last few evenings.
The basic functionality is all there (running, collision, hooking, pulling, switches, pressure pads, launchers) and I've had a go with music and graphics, but I'm no level designer, it turns out! So this is a work-in-progress job to get feedback on those core mechanics, and ideas for how to extend the game out!
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I ripped off the Google Snake game to see if I could. Don't worry, I have bigger plans for this.
Controls
⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️ : turn
🅾️/z : retry
❎/x : ???
Versions
Version 1:
- added visual effects (particles, screen shake, etc.)
- scoreboard now moves so that it never hides the apple or the snake's head
- scoreboard now shows high score
- pressing ❎ in the menu now does something...
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I put a completely unscientific research poll up on Twitter asking folks where they usually play PICO-8 games and the majority said they primarily play using the desktop client.
- Desktop App: 56.7%
- Desktop web browser: 23.3%
- Phone web browser: 16.7%
- Handheld App (non-phone): 3.3%
I put up the poll because PICO-8 is in a unique spot where it can be played various ways on various platforms, and yet we're not able to design games to account for one or the other. This has always been a point of ponder for me and having this data helps me think about it better.
However, the audience that saw my tweet is probably regular PICO-8 players and devs anyway, so it's not the casual gaming public that most certainly plays through the web on Itch.io and whatnot. But, still interesting to see the results.
What does this tell us? I mean, not much, I guess, but to me it says the laptop/desktop is the device (and environment) where we're mostly playing. It's not on your phone or on a handheld like the RG351. It also means Splore is likely a primary source of access/finding of games. We might also be able to infer that the game is being seen on a rather larger display, not phone or handheld sized...so worry about sprites being "too small" could be less so.
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Vec-Rhytm is a game similar to vib-ribbon. Your goal is to dodge
the obstacles that appear as the music is playing.
There are only 2 songs. This is more of a tech demo than a real game,
I wanted to see if drawing lots of triangles would be viable, It was!
The music titled "Into the belt" was taken from Pico-8 Tunes Vol.2
which can be found here
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=62911
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Tetris with Hexagons
Ever wonder what Tetris would be like if it used hexagons instead of squares? It would look like this! Tetrahex plays like Tetris, but uses tetrahexes instead of tetronimoes.
Options
Title Screen
- Level - Starting Level. Each level goes slightly faster, but scores more points.
- Speed - Changes the speed of all levels. Each change either doubles or halves the speed.
- Controls - Left and Right always moves pieces the same direction, but you may choose what each other button does. Chose between
Hold - Swap the current piece for what is in the hold place. May only be done once per piece (you can't swap back and forth). First time swaps for the next piece.
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Hi guys.
I'm making a top-down style action game.
But, my implementation of the diagonal movement and the collision detection does not work as desired.
- 1st, the diagonal movement seems too slow.
- 2nd, after a few try, it may be got stuck into the solid block.
Any help about those ?
English is not my tongue, I hope my English get through to you.
Thank you.
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