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The hide_mouse_cursor feature is very buggy. That is the option that makes the mouse cursor disappear while typing in the PICO-8 editor. Length in seconds can be configured in config.txt but the problem is there even with the default of 5 sec.

On startup it works but after a while of coding it stops working at all. I posted this before but deleted my post because the steps I gave to reproduce didn't always make it happen. So it's hard for me to say exactly when it stops working. But I think that everyone here will notice if they pay attention, that after a some time working on a game, the mouse cursor will remain in the way while typing.

If you ctrl-r ctrl-r it will start working again. But if you type something at the command prompt and say, get a syntax error, or even just ls to show whats in the directory, or cls(), most of the time (but not always!) when you esc back to the editor it will be broken and the mouse will show even while you are typing. This will persist for the rest of the session. ctrl-r TWICE seems to reset it, but once is not enough.

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bug mouse editor

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.

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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maze

not exactly sure how to layout the code, but so far i have these:
in the init_game, level=1
when the level 2/3/4 door is entered, the level is set to 2/3/4
but, im not exactly sure how to make the code work for the checkpoint. how can i fix this??

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

pico-8 help

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?

atari

[sfx]

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

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!

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

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

fishing maid speed

survival bird nature

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

space unfinished base

The demo game Jelpi (by Zep) can be completed in 8.2 seconds!

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.

tas speedrun jelpi

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

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!

shmup

Build a Jetpack

First entry of my challenge to release a game every month for the next 100 months.

• Arrow keys to move
• When on your raft, press C to open the shop.
• Press X to confirm actions.

Website: https://aymeri100.fr/

Hi, tiny tiny bug for HTML5 export in PICO-8 where the colon is missing on line 986 by default. Just slightly unaesthetic when dragging over HTML5 files onto my site. Hopefully it's a quick fix!

shoot mine strategy field

This is a scaled-back version of Celeste Classic in just 1KB of compressed code. Originally planned to submit it to Pico1K Jam 2024, but didn't make the deadline. It includes the first 3 levels of the original game, and runs at 60FPS. I tried to make it feel as much like the original as possible, hope you enjoy playing it.

celeste platformer pico1k

celeste wip