I just published my first game. It is not perfect, but it runs. I may upload an updated version in the future. It is my first attempt at programming a Pico-8 game. I hope you will appreciate it! :)
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Picotron RPG Engine Minimal Starter Template
A minimal, ready-to-run RPG starter template for Picotron that reads game data from artist-friendly text files. Perfect for prototyping RPG ideas or learning how to build RPGs in Picotron.
You can make Bitsy-like games easily and they are expandable if you want.
🎯 What This Is
This is a stripped-down RPG starter (for beginners) that includes only the essentials:
- ✅ Grid-based movement with collision
- ✅ Turn-based battles (attack/item/run)
- ✅ Simple inventory and stats UI
- ✅ Room transitions and NPCs
- ✅ Item chests and dialogue
- ✅ Random encounters
- ✅ Artist-friendly data format (.txt files)
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I am pretty much done with my Simon-Says-like game, so I shift it to releases.
That game has no frills, it is intended just to behave like one of those cheap gadget toys.
If you encounter any errors, especially while guessing, please explain how you got to that point.
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Hello, everyone. I just wanted to share my first game that I've made for the PICO 8. It's a very simple game in which you're defending a terminal from the enemies and the goal is to get the highest score you can.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Controls:
Circle (o): Shoot
Cross (x): Buy upgrades if you have enough tokens
When you defeat an enemy, you get 1 point (saves to your Score) and you have a chance of getting 1 token. Starting in version 1.2, the chance of getting a token when defeating an enemy is based on score, following this pattern:
- Between 0 and 49 points: 50%
- Between 50 and 99 points: 60%
- Between 100 and 199 points: 70%
- Between 200 and 499 points: 75%
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There is a way, out of the box, to edit your cartridge as a folder in your host system and as a fully executable cartridge in Picotron.
1. From Picotron Save your application with a file name ending in “..p64”.
On the host machine, in the Host OS Folder, this will create a traditional folder with the contents of the card inside.
2. From the host machine (not inside Picotron), rename this folder by removing a dot from the extension so that it becomes “.p64” again.
In Picotron, the .p64 will become a cartridge that you can load (either using the Load command in the Terminal or with the right-click context menu “Load Cartridge”), while in your host folder it will remain in folder form.
The original discovery of the double period that disrupts the parser and produces a folder is credited to Heliuse, according to this thread: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=162272
With the addition of the method explained above, and recent updates to Picotron, it is possible to keep the cartridge thus produced in RAM and execute it with a simple CTRL+R back in Picotron.
I hope this will be useful to you.
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it's your first week at sakura high -- fall in love with a schedule!
(made for a game-a-week course. this week's prompt was "puzzle in disguise".)
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this is a tiny game, hope you like it :)
up is jump left/right is move, down is checkpoint
CHANGELOG
v0.1
added music
checkpoint appears as a blue square
v0.2
i did it i managed to use the plat engene from https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=154935 after so much debugging
credits to AtomicPico
v0.3
oops removed music on v.02
if you get annoyed by trapping yourself with checkpoints thats just a skill issue
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-月齢陣- (Getsurei-jin)
Color Palette
(278 chars)
camera(-64,-64)::●::f,q=circfill,t()/11cls()?'\^!5f10████♥♪●🐱\n⁴ 웃\n\n\n♥'
for i=1,11 do
i=i/11+t()/11x,y=sin(i)*52,cos(i)*52f(x,y,7,8)a=i*34%34-17f(x+sin(q)*a,y+cos(q)*a,9,0)end
for i=0,3do?'\^!5f5e'..('𝘥■"☉')[i+1]
b=i%3e,d=a*7*b,q+b*.5f(sin(d)*e,cos(d)*e,43,7)end
flip()goto ●
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My very first game, I hope you enjoy.
I always wanted to make a "Make your Ice cream" game for years, but never had the chance. But now here we are.
How to play:
You will figure it out.
This game is still in development.
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It's a happier paper-pushing job than the one in Papers, Please: finding homes for lost cats!
Version History
Version 0.0.2
- added undo functionality
- added new sounds
- fixed looping buzz sound
Version 0.0.3
- switch to 60 fps
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Hello everybody!
I would like to ask for some advice.
I'm very new to pico-8 (and programming), I have an idea for a part of my game but I am unsure how to execute it, if anyone knows how it'd be really appreciated!
Basically, my goal is to have (under the map?) like a background of water, I've drawn a 2X2 (16pX16p) tile for how I want it to look, but im confused on how to code it to spawn underneath the general map like filling the whole thing under it to fill in the gaps of the map that I leave empty. I know I can technically do spr a bunch of times before the map is drawn but I feel like that is way too many tokens and perhaps not gonna help me learn lol?
If possible I want to keep this separate to being drawn on the map because in the future I'd love to make it manipulate in some way, perhaps like a slight warp to simulate how water moves a bit but I think that is way out of my league for now lol.
Thank you everybody and I hope to join your lovely community!
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math.huge is serialized to inf with pod(), which breaks unpod()
data = pod({a=math.huge})
print(data)
data2 = unpod(data)
print(data2) |
output
{a=inf}
[nil] |
data2 should be a table.
I noticed this when using store() to save a game file and the podtree.p64 app wouldn't load the data correctly.
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Play as a modified flower pot equipped with wheels and a jet engine! Move and bounce off the walls to collect water and stay in the sun. Survive for long enough to level up and let your flower grow taller!
Little game with one ending, had a lot of fun creating the audio and visual identity for the game. My first completed Pico-8 game on the BBS!
Controls
- Press 🅾️/Z to move slowly
- Press ❎/X to move faster
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How to play: Arrow keys to move, square button to whack!
After a long while spent procrastinating/thinking about what kind of game to make, I chanced upon some art assets that I figured would make a perfect base for a small game.
The game is a variant of whack a mole, called Whack-A-Monster. As it turns out, though, Whack-A-Sort-Of-Humanoid, would probably be a better description. It is all based on a mini game included in the Medieval Carnival art package by Krishna Palacio. I had to de/re-make the palette a lot to fit with pico8's less varied color options.
An interesting thing is that I tried NOT to make the scene framework very generic, but kind of hard coded wrt the scenes and different entities. This approach seemed nice after a bit of initial coding I did in the pico8 default editor, where I felt it was tedious to do "architectural" changes due to the tiny screen. However after a while I really regretted this and if I ever make another cart I'll try to make everything modular and un-knowing of everything else. The code is something of a big orgy of global variables.
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