After watching this episode of Coding Train's coding challenge, I thought a square screen would be perfect for this sort of thing. It's not my cleanest code but it's pretty interesting to watch.

• ➡️ makes it go faster (increase frame skip)
• ⬅️ slows down (to a stop)

math experiment

P#107394 2022-02-21 09:54 ( Edited 2022-02-21 09:55)

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Picked something simple for my first PICO-8 game. Also first time coding in Lua so the code is probably horrid.

It's basically this. I've only managed 1024 myself and I don't know what happens after 8192 because there's no more sprites after that.

Changes:

• Using sspr() instead of spr() to draw parts of blocks, so they appear to flow into each other when merging
• Animation cycle now skips if there's nothing to change, speeding up response time.
• Added instructions
• Added game over screen with restart button
• Added persistent high score (thanks tobiasvl)
• Quick fix to high score because I'm bad at variable names

To do:

• Add sounds maybe (how do you make a sliding sound in PICO-8?)
• Some sort of fanfare when you reach 2048? Fireworks?

I doubt I'll come back to this. It has reached my mental "close enough".

P#57462 2018-10-03 09:15 ( Edited 2018-10-18 10:37)

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