My first-ever game, Foxcatsquirrel, is out now for Pico-8!

🍦🍪🍔 Chomp tasty food in quick arcade action

💫💀🦆 Repel enemies with your shockwave

🎼🎵🎧 Hum irritatingly catchy music!

Can you finish all five levels and get on the high-score table?

Thanks to this forum's own grumpydev for the fantastic high-score table code that let me finally call this game complete!

December 2022 update: Now running at 60fps!

Foxcatsquirrel

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Foxcatsquirrel

by daddynewts

Cart #foxcatsquirrel-5 | 2022-12-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Very impressed. Nice job and fun game.

First off, welcome! :)

This is a lovely simple game. The graphics and animation are beautiful. I like the handling of the player character, once I'd figured out you could glide it all became much more fluid. It'd be great to see some different difficulty settings, I find games like this where you die with one hit really hard! Nice music too. :)

Thank you very much for your kind and positive feedback!

I definitely would like to add more difficulty settings/lives - one hit over five levels is a bit stingy!

Love it! Maybe a 'do you want to continue?'prompt might be a solution to keep the difficulty, but at the same time give everybody the opportunity to reach level 5

Hello. I think it's a great result for the first game. Discreet and simple, but cute graphics. Smooth movements. I love it! Of course, in the future, this game can be improved and gets better and better, but for the first job - it's great. Don't stop there, you're doing great. Andersen

Maybe you have other jobs? I am very interested to take a look at other games :)

Herzlichen Dank, Stefan! I really appreciate that you played my game and your kind words too. I did release a second, much smaller game jam game on https://jamesnewton.itch.io/

Thank you again for your kindness!

I enjoyed it a lot

Hi @daddynewts.

Helluva introduction by posting this great game ! I was having difficulty seeing the treasures to grab on the 1st level as you already have some sprites on the screen as part of the background.

Here now is a version that flickers the treasures ever so slightly so you can always know what and where they are.

foxcatsquirrel_mod

by dw817

Cart #foxcatsquirrel_mod-1 | 2022-12-26 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Additionally it seems that if you jump from HERE to HERE you get stuck at the top of the screen momentarily.

Nonetheless, gold star work all the way !

Hi baker, hi dw817! @baker, glad you liked it :)

@dw817 – I've never had anyone mod my work before, so I'm really surprised! Thank you so much! I hoped that the outline on foreground objects made them clear enough, but sounds like it's still hard to see. I thought of making the outline thicker, or adding a subtle glow (maybe a smaller version of the glow around the key). I'll keep tinkering!

Thanks for the bug report too – it's a problem with the jumping physics, so your upward momentum doubles when you land on a platform at just the right height. In the end I changed the level layout to get around that :D