I saw a neat algorithm for generating mazes on YouTube called "Origin Shift" and tried it out in PICO-8. Works pretty good!

This first cartridge generates a maze and puts a player inside it. You can move around. Pressing X will generate a new maze. The algorithm guarantees that any cell in the maze is reachable from all the other cells. So you can regenerate the maze around the player without worrying that they'll be trapped.

Maybe this becomes a game; maybe not.

origin_shift_maze

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origin_shift_maze

by TommySezSoWhat

Cart #origin_shift_maze-0 | 2024-10-17 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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This second cartridge was for debugging. The idea with Origin Shift is that the maze is a directed tree graph with a root, or origin. You start with a very simple "maze" and then iterate a bunch of times, moving the origin around, swapping pointers to ensure the whole thing stays a directed tree graph. But my code wasn't working, so I needed to visualize what was happening better...

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Looking within the birds.p64 demo:

-- draw mask -- display pixels that have one of these bits set are drawn
-- 0 means draw all pixels
poke(0x547d, 0b00111111)

For a windowed app, this poke means that black (0x0) is not drawn to the screen at all. If we use cls(0) at the top of _draw(), then our entire background is effectively transparent, though the underlying color at those pixels is still 0. if we use a custom color table, gfx ops over the background will consider the "target color" to be 0 as well.

Is there a way to use the underlying desktop pixels as the target instead? This could be used to create some fun effects on the desktop: i'm imagining translucent windows, sophisticated shadows, additive blending...

borurisajo

by uncertifiedloaf

Cart #borurisajo-0 | 2024-10-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

AND BEFORE I FORGET how can i make the level 4 camera work?

Hi!
Sorry If m last posts were aggressive or just have'nt done anything in a while.

Atari, Being a low level game console, I was wondering If that could happen In P-8.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

[sfx]

https://snabisch.itch.io/free-music-sequences-for-pico-8

escape_the_hive

by Rowlet311

Cart #escape_the_hive-5 | 2024-11-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Sorry all I have messed up the upload and have uploaded the wrong game ,but it is fixed now.
This is a game based on Ridley Scott's Alien Franchise. The main character's sprite is a re-coloration of Celeste Classic's player sprite.

New collision update

Your name is Ellen Ripley. You have just killed the Alien Queen. Now escape the hive.

Please comment any suggestions to get the creative juices flowing, also please comment anything I need to fix. Thanks!

Flip-Side (V2)

by bilodau

Cart #flipside-1 | 2024-10-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

Here is Thinkfun's Flip-Side puzzle in the Pico-8 engine. Very minimal I know.

A teeny-tiny little look-see on how the game might look.

WIP gif of "The Counts are enraged!" - a Shmup I'm working on

Maid to Fish

by sMattGuy

Cart #maidtofish-0 | 2024-10-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Maid to fish is a fishing minigame using directional inputs

Controls

On the main menu, use up and down to control number of fish and left and right to change starting difficulty
In game, the main buttons are direction inputs shown on the right.
The source code can be found here

Credits

Coding done by me,
Art done by Susu

Space Shooter

by noiD_on_scratch

Cart #pebenoyoh-0 | 2024-10-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Here is just the bear-bones of this project that I've whipped up.
Uploading this to view my journey into learning Lua

The Debug menu can be viewed by pausing, selecting debug and then selecting continue

jelpi_tas

by Haizlbliek

Cart #jelpi_tas-0 | 2024-10-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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It's just a first attempt at this, so the code is pretty terrible (7th tab if you want to see it).
This was all hand-coded over about less than an hour, so it's in no way perfect.

What is a TAS though?

A TAS, or Tool Assisted Speedrun, is when a human writes all the inputs for a computer to perform.
This can be used to create theoretical "perfect" speedruns of games.

Well, have fun messing around with this to finish the 3rd level and/or make this one faster.

I am looking for a programmer for a team that I am creating to make a game and I am also looking for an assistant to help me lead the team and create the game.I'm trying to create a Sonic the Hedgehog platform game for those who don't know his games, play this game: https://wamwoowam.co.uk/sonic4/ jumps with A and moves Sonic with the arrows if you crouch and press A Sonic makes a whirlwind if when Sonic jumps and press A, Sonic will jump wider or go straight towards an enemy.So far I only have one musician on the team.I also want to clarify that I have programmed in SCRATCH.

a catch game

by Eeleemos

Cart #catchgame_elimos-0 | 2024-10-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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i gave myself 5 hours to do it, so, yeah, it's buggy as hell and becomes impossible to play at a certain point, but I really liked the creation process of this tool

thecountisenraged

by taxicomics

Cart #thecountisenraged-1 | 2024-10-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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The Count Is Enraged!

Bring back peace to the asteroid belt by slaying Count Jaspawd! This is the first level of that game.

Controls

ARROWS to Move
X or x to shoot
O or c to shoot torpedos

but...why?

I was sick this weekend and tried another game for my mission:
I'm trying to make one game of every genre, even the ones I could never get into. This is my weekend attempt at making a shmup, a genre I'm not really familiar with.
Do tell me about all the things you hate in it and I might even work on it some more!