Hello! I was working on a 2D platformer, and I was wondering about how to make enemies. The cartridge that is attached above (I hope it is attached) shows a small demo of the game thus far.
(NOTE: this is based off the Nerdy Teachers 2D platformer tutorial)
As you can see, there is collision, semisolid platforms and even some spikes that can kill the player however, I am focused on the "frog" on the middle left platform. So far I have gotten it to walk forward and change directions when hitting sprite 2 (left turns) and sprite flag 3 (right turns). But I cannot for the life of me get the frog sprite to flip when turning. More importantly I cannot get the frog to kill the player like the spikes do. If you have any ideas or advice about the enemies or just in general please crack open my code and take a look.
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(Cover Art by Zep)
This December issue is the twelfth in the series. 12 issues in 12 months for the entire 2023 year! Because of that, this issue will be a little different, as we don't just look back on the month of December, but the entire year! What a year it has been!
Contents:
-Playing with Visual Effects - Tubeman
-December Games Rapid-fire Reviews - Achie
-Top 10 Games of 2023 - NerdyTeachers
-Developer Interview - LouieChapm
-Developer Interview - LokiStriker
-Apskeppet: Year in Review - Johan Peitz
-Curated Games Library - NerdyTeachers
-Outstanding Outliers - KumaKhan22
-Pixel Art Gallery and Interview - SaKo
-The Past and Future of Pico-View - Nerdy Teachers
-Closing Remarks
Read it here:
https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Pico-View/?issue=12
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Jebediah Peppermint - The Gun Wizard
~WORK IN PROGRESS~
Hi I'm Wash, 👋
I'm making small games based on every player character in the actual play D&D podcast, The Winged Badger Tavern that I play in.
In this game you play as my first character, Jebediah Peppermint, the molefolk gun-wizard who spits fire and fires spit. You'll fly through the sky atop your trusty blunderbuss 'Big Boy' and shoot down the evil forces of The Brightworld Company.
Watch live Monday's at 8:00pm EST
The gameplay is based on Lazy Dev's Academy shmup tutorial
Shoot baddies to fill your ammo. Use your ammo to fire BIG BULLETS and get a high score!
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Controls
⬅️+➡️
Explaination
This is just a demo, and I'm sort of tired of sprite-stacking. These past few months have been kind of rough on me, and I honestly can't make this into the game I was planning...
Thx for clicking/playing! Love you guys!
Credits
Marina Makes - https://twitter.com/MarinaMakes
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so, how does it work? you may ask.
well right now, i have the map editor
and you can do this:
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[13x7] |
but why?
because im bored
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What is this?
This is a short cute lil' game about a tiny cat visiting its dream(z). This game has three quick mini-games to play, from math problems, to a chase sequence. This was made for the GW Game Jam #2, and was made in Pico - 8 under 7 days. The music was made by Gruber Music and the dialogue system used was DTB made by Oli414.
How do I play?
The game is incredibly simple. The controls are:
Left / Right / Up / Down Arrow Keys -> Move
X / V / N -> Do action
Z / C / M -> Hold while moving to move faster. Press to advance through text.
(Also, Itch.io link)
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Quiet Helix
You are agent Casey Quiet of the Office of Unbordered Nations (OUN). The OUN has sent you to an unregistered base in the Arctic circle which has been rumored to be performing genetic tests on human subjects. These subjects have been taken against their will by Leader Bank, a former scientist in the United States Navy.
Your mission consists of 3 main tasks.
1: Recover all genetic vial samples of Bank's tests.
2: Rescue or dispose of any living test subjects.
3: Eliminate Leader Bank by any means necessary.
Be careful while exploring the base. Intel suggests Bank has installed electric fences and security cameras to defend against exactly what you are doing, and our infrared scanners have also detected a number of landmines in the vicinity.
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I have a handheld device (RG351V) that runs Pico 8 and Splore. I like to browse Splore at home while connected to Wi-Fi and Favorite games that I like. When I do that, some games are playable even offline, but some are not and give the error "could not connect to BBS."
I am not doing any special steps like downloading the cart manually. Some just seem to randomly work offline without me doing anything. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? I'd like to play them all offline as easily as possible.
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SANTA'S FULFILLMENT CENTER
A collaboration from tinyevilwizard and OhCurtains!
Conceit:
Silly sidescrolling puzzle action! Save this year's good girls and boys! Help Santa's wind-up toys to reach their wrapping by controlling this factory's crazy contraptions.
Click on a contraption to turn it on or off. But watch out!! Turning one on uses some of your power, and you only have so much.
How many toys can you help reach their boxes?
Controls:
Mouse:
Left Click -> Select / Confirm
Right Click -> Cancel / Open Menu
Keyboard:
🅾️ -> Select / Confirm
❎ -> Cancel / Open menu
Credits:
OhCurtains -> Code, Music
tinyevilwizard -> Code, Sprites
Sleigh Ride originally by Leroy Anderson
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Hi, complete noob here trying to work on my first game. Sorry if this has been asked before!
A friend of mine offered to do the soundtrack and handle all the sfx, but he lives in another state.
How do I go about letting him collab with me? I need him to he able to get into the code editor and all that.
Thank you (:
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这是我的第一个游戏，我看了lazydevs的教程，并完成了这个游戏。
教程：
方向键来移动，z键射击，躲避敌人子弹，摧毁所有敌人来获得胜利。
每个敌人都有不同的攻击方式，掌握规律来躲避子弹。
当分数达到3500和8000时会升级武器。
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Snow White and the Seven Boards
About
Can you traverse the seven boards and reach the seven dwarfs in this dwarfs in this epic adventure? Join Snow White and her mystical band of animals as you face perils unbeknownst to the movie-boardgame-videogame-adaptation genre up until now!
(There are only 4 boards)
(Produced hastily for an open-ended school project)
Playing the Game
Controls
Use left and right arrow keys to navigate menus and Z to select. The down arrow key is exclusively used when placing cards to stop placing them.
Cards
Throughout the game you will collect a variety of cards. Each card has 4 statistics:
Health - Card gets removed from the playing field when at 0 health.
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This interactive cube rotator is an accompaniment to the Introduction to 3D article in the November Pico-View issue.
Keys:
- Up/Down: Select next/previous parameter
- Left/Right: Incrase/decrease parameter value
- Z: Randomize the parameter values
- X: Toggle hiding/showing the text
Description of parameters:
- xrot/yrot/zrot: The rotation around the x/y/z axis
- xoff/yoff/zoff: The cube's x/y/z offsets (i.e. a translation transformation)
- zoom: The camera's z offset
- cam: Intensity of animated camera movement along the x,y & z axes
- sprd: How spread out are the points in the cube
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Cover Art by Mikesta
Pico-View November 2023 Issue #11 is here!
We have had a some amazing releases this month and this Pico-View issue has some incredible insights to learn all about them! There's also a couple special announcements and reveals that we've been keeping hush hush, so I hope you enjoy!
Here's the lineup of Content:
-Interviewing the PICO-8 Community - Pico-8 Gamer
-PICO-8 HTML Templates - Fletch
-Featured Game Review: Vial Varmits - Achie
-BAS: Birds and Saws Demake - Yokoboko
-Introduction to 3D - Tubeman
-The Best PICO-8 Games? - Nerdy Teachers
-The Spectre of Game Design - Pancelor
-Random Reviews - New Release Recommendations
-Advanced Token Saving - Lokistriker
-Outstanding Outliers: To Hell & Back in 30 Years - KumaKhan22
-The Spatial Audio of Demi Daggers - RidgeK
-Toy Box Jam 2023 - ThatTomHall
-Pico-8 Advent Calendar - TheTomster
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REALLY small game made as a tweetcart, but i couldnt compact it enough so ill just put it here.
Feel free to steal this if you want to try compacting it!
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