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by Kling
Cart #10053 | 2015-04-20 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License
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a first try with pico-8

I tried doing the simplest thing that one may do in lua.
a choose your adventure game.

there are 27 endings total, I couldn't do more due to the limitations

the golden apple one is my favorite.

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Lovely!



Kling, How do I get started with Lua? I know very little about programing.
What's the good place to start?

pico-8 comes with a txt with the basic cheatsheet
but I you want to learn lua codeacademy is the best place

edit: wait, forget it, codeacademy doesn't have lua

zep left this site on the txt file however, so you may want to look here

also, to read the txt document I recomend using notepad++, the windows notepad is terrible.

Really nice!

For a real quick crash course in Lua it's hard to beat

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/

though note that the whole LUA api/stdlib is not available for you in PICO-8.

You'll have an idea though when running your cart and seeing "_____ is nil."

I also find Rosetta Code very handy for picking up languages, and the Lua examples helped me while using Pico8.

Was this a Ludum Dare entry?



Kling is in Pico-Tournament #1
You got 2nd to Benjamin Soule

Awesome start, I enjoyed going through the stories.



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