Hey all, wanted to introduce my latest PICO-8 project: ZUBGUBBLERS!
ZUBGUBBLERS is my take on a minimal party game for 2-4 players heavily inspired by the classic game Qix, Splatoon, with additional inspiration from Frank DeMarco's Seam of the Vultures. I wanted to avoid using sprites for the most part and just leverage lines, boxes, and fills.
The goal is to paint as much of the background your color by the time the game is over. You do so by holding button 1 (Z) to expand a box around your player. Releasing the button paints the background your pattern; however, you can also hold a direction and dash (X) into other players. If another player dashes into your box while you are expanding it, the background is painted their color!
There are also some powerups floating around that do various things such as speed up or slow down your player, or make you paint a trail of color behind you for a limited time. There's a team mode available in the pause menu, as well.
It's really best with 4-players so download the cart and bust those gamepads out!
Code and design by Nick Santaniello (ROBYSOFT)
http://www.robysoft.net
Featuring music by Devin Curry (aka Grand Atrium)
https://soundcloud.com/grandatrium
This game is so great. I played it with my wife and son, what a great party game.
We had some issues starting the game with all 3 players, but once started it works great.
Thanks for your kind words, mhungerford! For anyone reading, to
'tag in' at the title screen, players must hit button 1 to activate their colored square. When an activated player hits button 1 again, the game will begin, so make sure everyone is tagged in before then!
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