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CharEdit (Yet Another One-Off Character Editor)

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:45:59 UTC

I can't really think of a use for one-off characters right now, but Lazy Devs floated the idea of making a little editor for them in his recent video and that seemed like a fun short project, and I'd never done anything with GUI elements before.

Meant to be used offline.
Not all features will work off the BBS but you can use the basic functionality.
Multiple persistent slots for editing.
Really it's just a page of the spritesheet you're editing.
Per character Undo/Redo
This is limited to 32 levels of undo per character but there's no particular reason it should be. Basically like the Pico-8 sprite editor (plus Rotation) though I didn't feel any need to implement the more complex drawing things for the 8x8 monochrome format.
Flip, Rotate, and Shift
With some keyboard shortcuts you can see in tooltips. Shifting uses the dir buttons.
Copy/Paste One Off Character Strings
That's the whole point of it. There's a toggle to use hex or binary, but just use hex because "binary string" doesn't really make any sense; if you have an empty row you're going to have \0's in the string and no string workflow is going to enjoy that; afaict you really can't even paste them into a cart which seems like the #1 thing you'd want to do; just use hex.

8VENTURE

Fri, 07 Aug 2015 22:36:42 UTC

8VENTURE 7.6

by cheepicus

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You are standing outside a yellow castle. It is a fine summer day.

This is a PICO-8 homage to Atari 2600 Adventure. It's not just a nostalgia trip; I tried to make it a fun game in its own right.

Hints & History:

sAdventure

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 02:30:57 UTC

sAdventure 003

by cheepicus

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Added tons of stuff!
It's now playable. It even has an ending.
There's more I want to add, but I'm at 7293/8192 tokens, so I'm not sure what will make it.
(That's why the title screen is gone.)

sAdventure 002

by cheepicus

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Added teleporters, ghosts and curses, the white castle, keys, doors, title screen
Swamp very nothing, not sure how nightmarish to make it yet
Technically it's possible to win now, but the game doesn't recognize win state

sAdventure 001

by cheepicus

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Added picking up and dropping the sword.
It won't let you deposit the sword in a wall.
Sound effects relating to those.
Rewrote things that don't get seen. Decided to go with purely integer pixel coordinates.
Didn't really work on the duck yet. I think it crashes pico. It's dangerous.

Sadventure 000

by cheepicus

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Not a game yet, just want to show a friend a duck.

You can rotate the sword by holding a button and a direction. Not the button that shoots the beam -- the other button.