Playing Pico8 games on mobile phones - while very convenient - has its issues, the major one being the the lack of tactile feedback you would expect from hardware. This tends to make my thumbs lose track of where the buttons are when I focus on the playing screen. Games like Celeste that require quick and precise button presses tend to be unavoidably more difficult to play on mobile.
To lessen the problem, I think expanding the directional key area would help, mainly with the top-left(green), top(blue) and top-right(red) keys as that's where I believe thumbs get lost the most.
The horizontal view gives the directional keys more room and doesn't interfere with the X O keys, so the right and bottom-right keys could also potentially be expanded.
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Backwards: Credit goes to TetraPengwin. This makes the controls inverted
Invisible: I made it myself!
Elliotteste: Made by StrongSand94191, celeste mod.
Richter 8.5: Also made by StrongSand94191, makes it so every time it screenshakes, the shake gets bigger.
Marathon-Safe: Credit goes to J. This makes it so that you have to get the stawbberry to pass the level or you restart the level.
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The Sky has been blacked out into an endless night with the stars constantly shifting and falling.
The Nightmare Knight has awoken and breaks havoc on those who try to sleep through it.
It's up to the starborn Safire and her two magical friends to stand up and put an end to the endless night!
Jump and fight your way up through this vertical platformer through variouss short levels.
But watch out, dying means starting over!
Choose between 3 characters that have varying abilities that gets stronger as long as you keep up a combo streak:
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Safire has a short range fireball, maintain a combo to make her fire stronger and regenerate faster.
[8x8]
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Playful proposal by PBeS Studio produced in 47 hours during the Spriiiing Game Jam organized by the Coin @extracoin association from March 24 to 26, 2023 in Metz --
Theme: setbacks .... Our interpretation: when you suffer the setbacks of life you have to know how to take life on the back .... Don't let Chat GPT do anything in our video games. - 10 minutes to reach the end of the game.
In french CHAT means cat .... you know it's funny ha ha ha
PBeS Studio is :
@gatetan54 -- GG / @ampir -- PieRo
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Have you wanted to combine the pain of elliotteste by @StrongSand94191 and the struggle to not get softlocked in real time celester by @AdamMcKibben ?
No? Well that's awkward.
Anyway have fun crying!
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Hey @zep,
Do I remember right? I think when I asked for state-changing funcs like color() or clip() to return the previous state, I'm pretty sure poke() (and its 2/4 friends) was one of them. Seems like it always returns 0 now.
(Also, if it's meant to return the previous state, remember to return a tuple of old values if you're given a tuple of new values.)
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Thanks to some great and kind advices, I could fix the problem.
And then I added many things prepared. I'm going to work more, so this is for-now form.
← and → ... Move left or right
↑........... Enter the door (Move to next stage)
↓........... Activate switch
〇........... Jump(on the ground), Air dash(in the air)
×........... Nothing for now.
*The title "Kagiventure" comes from "鍵(Kagi, key in Japanese)" and "adventure".
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as of 0.2.2, all menuitems now have their functions called when left/right are pushed while the menuitem is selected?? It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this... (probably due largely to a bug where the menu doesn't actually close but the items are still triggered, even if the function does not return true which helped to obscure this behavior)
@zep it seems like this change to menuitem's functionality was intended to be extra functionality and only improve the capabilities of menuitems, but the problem is that the new functionality is always activated, even it's not needed or wanted, so if the user accidentally presses left or right (which is very easy to do with a joystick or with the mobile D-pad UI, and this is how I noticed it!) the menuitem's function gets triggered, and the only way to prevent that (i.e. in order to maintain the old behavior where left/right do not trigger the function) is to use up more tokens in the menuitem's function to check which button was pressed!
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Today I did something I haven't done in 20 years: I finished making a game.
Huge huge credit to SpaceCat, whose course I followed.
It's a Flappy Bird clone where you play as a bubble trying to avoid cacti.
I am still very very much a novice and I'm sure the code has some issues but WOW was this a fun experience.
[edit: fixed a collision issue]
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Hello,
I was wondering if it is possible to embed PICO-8 to run on a web page and how to do so. What I mean is to be able to run a cart in a page like lexaloffle's website here or on itch.io for example.
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I'm having trouble with a for loop. The code runs but it doesn't work as desired. Here's the code:
function pikmin_create(n)
g = 1
for group in all(pikmin.sprite) do
for i = 1,n do
if g == 1 then
add(pikmin.sprite[group],6)
elseif g == 2 then
add(pikmin.sprite[group],8)
elseif g == 3 then
add(pikmin.sprite[group],10)
end
end
g+=1
end
end |
pikmin.sprite is initalized in function _init() as follows:
pikmin = {
sprite = {{},{},{}}
} |
This should assign every group/subtable in pikmin.sprite a different sprite. However the assignment doesn't work (as the default 0 sprite gets printed).
What am I doing wrong?
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