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Hi !

I'm looking to do something a bit weird with the PICO-8 and didn't find anything in the manual that would point to a solution. Maybe someone has done something along those lines already ?

What I would like to do is to control the PICO-8 console itself, irrespective of the cartridge running, through an external program.
Mainly, I would want to reset the console and/or change the cartridge via the external program, without having a specific cartridge loaded, inputs on the PICO-8 itself or closing and restarting the PICO-8. (I believe that resetting only could work, by loading a specific path for the cartridge and changing the file directly ?)

I don't really have a preference on the way this control could be done, just being able to would be enough.
Maybe the PICO-8 could be integrated in the program itself, as in Celeste, but I haven't found anything related to that while searching the web.

It's a bit of a specific use case (I'm trying to use a physical cartridge to use on the PICO-8), but I would appreciate any help or pointers !

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pico-8 help

This is a flood-it clone inspired by the game Ink Spill from the book "Making Games with Python & Pygame". This game and also some of the others that I have already done and published here are part of a personal challenge which consists in doing clones of these games.

How to play

In order to win you have to flood the entire board with one color within a certain number of moves. You can do a flood fill on the tip left tile, changing the color of any adjacent tiles of the same color.

Controls

• Change color - ⬅️/➡️
• Flood fill - 🅾️/Z/C

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inkspill flood-it floodit floodfill

Just got Pico-8 so I am testing it with a basic game.

I ended up mostly skipping Genuary because of Ludum Dare, but today I decided to write a tiny village generator.

This took me about one hour to write. Every time you run the cart, a new tiny village is generated.

There is nothing special going on. Walls are placed first, then doors and floors following a flood fill algorithm. Everything else is placed by sampling the map hundreds of times and checking for placing conditions.

The code is a bit of a mess and, looking back, I can see several easy places to reduce token count and increase variety. Maybe I'll revisit this before the end of the month. Maybe not.

I hope I'll have some time in march to participate in 7DRL. I have ideas I want to put into practice.

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procedural-generation genuary village building

My first attempt on pico game. Starting with classic. Undone. Some animations required as bug fixes.

2048 undone

Aquatic ventures!

aquatic ventures is a game where you're a fish, running from other fish!

I know, not that much fun, but it was fun making it!

Share your survival time with your friends, as it gets saved!

Controls

• arrow keys to move

This is Oraphin's Fish Simulator. Control Oraphin Killster through the side of a lake and make him collect 100 fish.
Watch out though, a Goomba is trying to take you down cause it was not having a good day.

Controls: Arrow keys to move. that's all you need to know.

Press X to change music to a more weirder tune.

Warning! This game gets near impossible to beat after you collect 50 fish. You have been warned

There's no reset option so you will have to restart the cart to try again if you die.

This game was made during my time in my Computer Science class. It's not the best cause this is my first real game. at least it works!

Enjoy!

orca water fish goomba pico-8

CyberBox

This is a PICO-8 port of CyberBox, one of my favorite DOS puzzle games, originally created by Doug Beeferman in 1991. You can play the original game in your browser here.

Music: Pico-8 Tunes Volume 1.
Fireworks: Particle Tutorial: Fireworks.

puzzle remake

This is a little demo I've been toying with. Its really barely a game, but it does show off a couple useful functions:

• Generated ground tiles with some decorations.
• Collision detection between the player character and the generated ground.
• Drawing triangles.
• Rope physics effects, used for the characters tail and flags.
• Some simple decorations, like clouds and background mountains.

There's really no "Game" in the sense that there's no objective or fail condition (although if you fall off the screen you're probably in a non-recoverable scenario).

educational demo runner

For now I'm only posting to make it easier to share this game with my friends for feedback. I'll write instructions on how to play later

strategy turn-based turnbased

Itch.io Link

Introduction

To take root Among the Stars is a short narrative platformer.

Play as Mei Hashimoto, one of the colonists send to an exoplanet to prepare it for the arrival of the rest of humanity.

Explore the colony and its surrounding flora and fauna. Talk to your fellow colonists and send a message to earth via the relay station at the top of the nearby mountain.

Controls

Movement

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narrative exploration platformer sci-fi lgbt

A tiny little time trial game inspired by Balloon Fight. How much stuff can you collect before the timer runs out?

arcade ghost highscore time trial

cucumber man pico-8 pico 8 pico8 pico8 pico-8 fun game good playable 2sprites

Github repo here -> https://github.com/lesleyrs/pico-paint

This is my first completed cartridge, made for people who don't like clicking or want to try something new.

It allows you to paint, copy, and paste 8x8 pixel art into pico-8 games without requiring a mouse.

Key shortcuts:

• arrow keys to move
• x to paint
• c + up or down to change active colour
• c + left to turn background colour into active colour
• c + right to change move delay
• enter for the other settings

Copying and pasting is not as efficient as i'd like because of the built-in limitations of writing to and reading from clipboard. Make sure to ctrl-c after pressing copy in menu, and ctrl-v before you press paste in menu. try:

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tool paint pixel-art key keyboard

Voronoi-adjacent thing. Can't quite fill a screen with these, but it's still a neat effect.

Run in PICO-8 EDU

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voronoi demo

catlegs
(requires a mouse)
(press c to flip cat)

cat legs

This is a re-skin of Pac-Man [#TinyTvJam] made by Scathe in 2017. I wasn't able to put the logo of my game, so there is a silver Pac-Man logo at the back of the arcade cabinet instead. Hope you joy this game and feel free to leave some of your thoughts

controls:

X to start
left and right arrows to move the boat.
down arrow to start fishing.

point rewards:
grey fish +1
yellow fish +3
red fish +5

easter egg if you hit highscore 69 ;D