Note: game must be played from splore - this page doesn't support mouse lock
Note: global leaderboard not yet available
Take the cursed dagger, use its power to dispatch the horrors from this hellish place, score the best time!
Note: this is not an official Devils Daggers port for PICO8 but a fan game using Sorath's game universe.
How to play
- Default controls: ESDF + mouse
- Fire: left mouse button
- Jump: space
Local stats icons:
number of jewels collected
number of daggers fired
hit ratio
obituary message
session time
Configuration & Settings
Go to Settings , adjust and accept to save your changes.
Online Leaderboard
Game uses Newgrounds leaderboard for competitive play.
Play from until scoresub is available:
https://freds72.itch.io/demi-daggers
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/905300
Click on online - connect button on title screen to login (or create) with your NG account.
Online ladder can be disabled from settings menu.
Editor How to
Game ships with a built-in editor.
Design your own voxel enemies and share your creations on #demidaggers!
(see workaround below for middle click)
Editor 101
*All commands have a tooltip, hover the mouse on the icon and a sliding text will appear:
Mouse bindings:
- left click: draw voxel
- middle click (hold): rotate view
- right click: pick color from cursor
- green line: represents the drawing plane (switches dynamically)
- mouse wheel: moves drawing plane back&forth (slices)
In case you want to revert to original models, hit P (for pause) and select reset all (needs confirmation).
Saving & Sharing
play command saves the models, generates images and goes back to title
copy copies the current model to the clipboard, easy to share a single model. Don't forget to post the corresponding gif!
Paste the text on the target model to use it.
export saves all models for sharing
When running standalone (binaries or PICO8 desktop), file is located under
%APPDATA%\pico-8\appdata\freds72_daggers\export.p8l |
When running on web, use browser dev tools to extract the "freds72_daggers_asssets.p8l" file.
Drag&drop an export.p8l file over an open editor to replace your current voxel collection.
Credits
- Sorath: original game!
- Ridgek: (awesome) music & sound design
- Artyom Brullov: additional gfx (thanks!)
- Heracleum: cover art
- Werxyz, Miss Mouse: beta testers
- Zep and the #pico8 discord folks!
Post-mortem & Technical Details
See: https://freds72.itch.io/demi-daggers/devlog/638738/journey-to-demi-daggers
Changelog
V1.4 (efa9586)
changed: jump on press (was jump on release to players despair!)
changed: player is 20% faster
added: "mini radar" to watch out things sneaking on you
V1.3 (15064e3)
changed: removed multi-spritesheet exploit with new Pico 0.2.6 version
changed: covert art by Heracleum
V1.2 (8f696d9)
changed: improved egg model (re-generate via editor)
changed: squid spawn no longer invicible before spewing
changed: reduced shotgun duration (3 frames)
changed: reduced worm difficulty
changed: Increase spawn & chatter spider sfx loudness
changed: lower streak wait time
changed: high level shotgun fire over several frames
changed: large centipede health
changed: increased skull gravity
fixed: improved shotgun cpu usage
fixed: prevent chatter from not playing back after Ctrl+R reload
changed: reduced skulls upward speed
changed: improved squid hitbox
added: auto gif option for best score>30s
changed: attract cooldown for shotgun
changed: build version in settings menu
fixed: crash in editor for bad colors
fixed: high cpu switching menu in title
fixed: skulls fountain on title
fixed: removed invalid color in editor
V1.1 (164e498)
changed: shotgun on "long" click
change: upward move on squid spawns
fixed: smooth "coyotte" move
fixed: jump on press
fixed: removed browser mouse acceleration
fixed: editor not going back to title
fixed: editor crash on last color
@freds72 Thanks for the opportunity! I had a great time on this project!
And thanks to all reading this, I hope you have as much fun playing the game as we did making it! 💀
lmao
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😡
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Game ships with a built-in editor. <= as if the game itself was not awesome enough!
This is a mind-blowing example of what is possible in Pico 8, bravo!
This is obviously amazing, but i question the camera smoothing that makes it hard to aim and that to perform a jump you have to release the button.
Can't stress how insane is the inclusion of a voxel editor in-game though
Thanks!
For the ‘smoothing’, can you try various mouse scaling values in ‘settings’?
there is no ‘smoothing’ of the mouse input so wonder if it can be linked to your mouse sensitivity?
jump button fix is in the work.
Oh, wow, this is the full devil daggers gameplay experience! Insane! I thought it would be more of a demake. Ugh, so hard, I still have nightmares.
@MrHumildo Thanks for your feedback! Turns out OS-level mouse acceleration is the default for the PointerLock API in web browsers and so it's been disabled for the itch.io and NG releases. Jump has also been changed from on-release to on-press.
I was wondering if there's any chance for uploading the .p8 files like you did with POOM? Thanks!
This game is really awesome and well it wasn't at the first turns playing XD and as it took my eye I made a 3d engine in js and I'm making my own devil daggers :) also I didn't know that there is new version that fixes all problems such as getting killed from behind because of speed or not seeing what is there
Great work!
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