Kirby of the Stars

WingedRobot • 2019-02-25*2019-02-25 08:46* •

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Kirby of the Stars

by WingedRobot

Cart #kirbyinstarfield-0 | 2019-02-25 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

This is a Pico-8 doodle I made a while ago using only circles. I wanted it to be the first cart I published on the BBS because I love it so much. It might be one of my favorite things I've ever made.

I tried as closely as possible to follow the traditional tutorial of how to draw Kirby:

First you draw a circle,

Then you dot the eyes,

Add a great big smile

And presto, it's Kirby!

I have plans to add some animation to Kirby himself later on, but for now I just wanted to share him with everybody!

EDIT:
I forgot, but I actually was inspired to do this because of a tweet from @thekirbybot on twitter!
https://twitter.com/thekirbybot/status/1009457661405028352

kirby nintendo hal sakurai pink stars cute adorable

tobiasvl • 2019-02-25 2019-02-25 09:05

Very nice! My initial reaction is that it'd be cool if it could be compressed down to a tweetcart :D

WingedRobot • 2019-02-25*2019-02-25 09:20*

I actually did compress this into a tweetcart! Well, Kirby himself at least. I don't think I ever tweeted it though, but I'm not sure why.

x,y=63,64 c=circfill--#pico8
::_::cls(1)poke(0x5f2c,5)c(x,y,30,14)
for n=15,25,5 do
c(x-n,y-n/2+37,10,8)end
c(x-27,y-10,12,14)
for n=-15,0,2 do
c(x-10,y+n,3,0)end
c(x-10,y-15,2,7)
for n=15,20,2 do
c(x-n,y+5,2,8)end
for n=-4,4 do
c(x+n/2,y+11,2,8)c(x+n*.5,y+13,1,8)end
flip()goto _

With 1 character to spare.
EDIT: Actually, with no characters! Changed background to the same blue as original.