WELCOME TO DASHBOX
DASHBOX is a frenetic arcade score chase game where you DASH inside a BOX.
Get to the SAFE WALL before the timer runs out.
Collect the ORBS to increase your score.
Avoid crashing into the GATES!
HOW TO PLAY
In DASHBOX you control the ball that sits on the interior edge of the wall.
Use left, right, up, and down to move your ball along the wall.
To DASH, hit the Z key (or circle button)
If your path passes through a GATE, your trajectory will be changed!
The WHITE WALL is the SAFE WALL
You want to make sure you're on the safe wall when the timer at the bottom of the screen runs out
To increase your score, collect the vibrating ORB.
The point value of an orb increases by 1 for every orb collected while the timer is active, so move fast to get quick points!
IF YOU DASH TOO MANY TIMES WITHOUT COLLECTING THE ORB, YOU WILL PERISH.
WAYS TO DIE (AKA THINGS TO AVOID)
- Being on a non-safe wall when the timer expires
- Colliding with a gate in a way that does not redirect your trajectory
- Dashing too many times without collecting an orb
Have fun, and chase the highest score!
This game is a Zeflyn Design
a portion of the development for this game was streamed live on my Twitch Channel:
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What happens in the cart above
The program iterates over an array of tables moving values from the previous table to the current one tt[i] = pp[i] and displays current memory consumption and cycle counter
Expected behavior
Memory consumption does not grow given the fact that no new objects are created and the previous table is cleared by setting pp[i] to nil;
Actual behavior
Memory consumption grows and eventually crashes the program.
Doing a manual table reset t[counter - 1] = {} solves the issue, but in an actual game this manual GC call is very expensive(Example)
Trivia
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First finished Pico8 experiment. This is a kind of white noise machine in the form of a mini aquarium you can change some settings for. You can tap on the glass to find some interactions with the creatures and influence their behaviors. I made it as an idle app to run on my retro handhelds while they sit on my desk. Enjoy!
Arrow keys/Directional pad = move the cursor
x key/button = click on buttons or tap on the tank to trigger "ripples"
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Piconissimo v1.5
Sound editor
Version 1.5 Additions
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copy/paste
(Z=copy,X=paste) - horizontal pattern scroll
(click right/left icons on either side of note display.)
Getting started
- click garbage icon at top right for fresh start. This will permanently erase everything...Including theme music :(
- all numbers can be right/left clicked
- rightclick a piano key to test, leftclick to insert note into selected sfx
- red 'stop sign' stops anything playing
- unmute dark blue sfx in patterns by clicking on dot
- click blue floppy icon to save. save often.
- see manual for detailed info
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This is a post of my fishing game!
Instructions
Press and hold 🅾️ to prepare to cast, and let go to launch your lure!
Then, tap or hold 🅾️ to retrieve your lure. Float your lure in front of a fish to get its attention. It may take some time to get it interested. Once you've got it interested for long enough, it will strike! Now, hold 🅾️ to reel in that fish. The line color indicates tension. If the line is under too much tension, it will break, and you will lose a lure. Keep your tension balanced, and the fish will eventually tire out and become easier to fight.
Catch all the fish in the pond to win!
You will lose if you run out of lures or if you run out of time.
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Hello, this is my first attempt at a pico 8 game. I can't code very well, so I had some assistance from Claude AI :)
It's a simple Shoot'em Up game that gets more difficult as you progress.
How long can you survive?
Post your high score!
Update:
- added enemy fire (starts at lvl 5)
- menus/title screen
- level progress improvement
- updated sprites
- other small things, and bug fixes
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Press X to jump.
This is a platformer experiment based on Advanced Micro Platformer by @mhughson. Art by Niall Chandler Games.
Landing on top of blocks generally works well, but bumping into the sides of them is glitchy. Especially for the faster dirt blocks in the foreground. This is because of the hacky way I'm doing collision detection across the different layers.
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ROBOKI
Aqui você é Roboki, um pequeno robôzinho azul criado pela BemBom Inc. Sua missão? Explorar um laboratório no meio da Floresta Esmeralda que, por algum motivo misterioso, foi abandonado às pressas pelos cientistas da empresa. Cabe a você explorar esse antigo local e desvendar esse mistério.
Nesse jogo de Plataforma e Aventura, Roboki explora o laboratório e coleta moedas para receber novos upgrades e se aventurar ainda mais pelo local.
Here, you are Roboki, a little blue robot created by BemBom Inc. Your mission? To explore a laboratory in the middle of Emerald Forest that, for some mysterious reason, was abandoned by the company's scientists. It is up to you to explore this ancient place and unravel that mystery.
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PICO DAW is a digital audio workstation for creating PICO-8 tunes. If you've ever been frustrated by the piano style layout keyboard layout of the music editor or just wished you could draw your music, PICO DAW is for you. It's a mouse-based alternative for tune creation.
Preliminaries
While you can use the version of PICO DAW embedded in this page, it is better to run the cartridge directly from PICO-8. Open the PICO-8 console and enter [kbd]LOAD #DAW[kbd].
By default PICO-8 saves your composition to DAW.P8, but you can specify a different cart as the target by changing the file specified in the first line of code of the PICO DAW cart: target="daw.p8". If you are using a pre-exiting P8 file as the target, that file must be in the same folder as PICO DAW. If PICO DAW does not find the target file in the default folder, it will create one with the music patterns and SFX copied from PICO-DAW.
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My demake of the game One Circle on Pico-8.
Buy the original game for full levels!
One Circle is a minimalist puzzle game about putting balls of the same color together. Find the right moves to solve the proposed challenges, and challenge your mind more and more.
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Howdy! I made a game to showcase my conlang Dagapya, and it's essentially open-world Frogger, which should take 5-15 min to complete. Knowing the language isn't required to play the game, but if you want to learn more about it, you can find it here: https://www.dagapya.com
Big thank you to @paraK00PA for helping out and making the title music!
Controls:
-D-Pad to move + unlock locks with keys
-O to read signs (only works from front)
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decided to start with lazy dev tutorials instead of the other i was starting with. i like that he gives you like homework between episodes, i highly recommend his channel. but this is what i've got so far. no where near done witht the playlist but i really like what i've got going on graphic/theme wise, but i just wanted to post progress. the score, or lives or sword(bombs) don't do anything yet, since, i don't even have enemies, and the bullet resets itself everytime you press the fire button, but now that the tutorial is pretty much done with like, the visual stuff, i believe all that stuff happens next, but i'm done for the night to play some games with my partner. now, i just added the starfield to the start screen, but i can't tell if i like it better than how it was in the begining.
starfield
no starfield
if anyone sees this, if you have an opinion im open to it.
also features HEAVILY referenced art on the start screen by
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How many waves can you survive? let me know in the comments!
Work in progress, I am a beginner gamedev working solo, after long hours at my normal job.
I wanted to make something sort of different and experiment with different things like day night cycles and such. I hope you enjoy!
Basically, you are in a field behind a huge building, and when the day cycles to night time, a new wave of zombie horde begins to attack the player and the player must fend them off to see how many waves he can survive! I have not coded a start screen, and the game will still keep going through waves if the player dies, I came home from work and it was on wave 290 cause I forgot to turn the game off as I was programming for like 24 hours or so and left in a hurry!
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This is the first game I make for the 20 games challenge, and first game in general, so any feedback would be much appreciated, especially regarding how to improve my code structure, and the collisions in the game.
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