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Unfinished Cat Platformer

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:56:33 UTC

Unfinished Cat Platformer

by solar

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Hello again.

I started this thing almost a year ago as a passion project when I was out of work. It is full of clever things. I was so proud about all the clever things. It has parallax background scrolling. It stores a bunch of game data RLE-encoded in the spritesheet and as garbage strings in the code. It's doing all this hot-swapping of sprites into the spritesheet as the game needs them.

I haven't worked on it in like 6 months and I don't think I will again, so here it is! You can collect these marshmallowy looking stars and run around in the first "level", which is more like a bunch of test platforms just seeing what could be accomplished. There was supposed to be a cutscene at the start and the sprites still exist in the code for that, but in this version you just get dumped right into the level.

If you edit LEVEL=1 to say LEVEL=2 in the code you'll get an alternate (and very basic) level with different art.

I wanted to write music for it and I figured something out on piano and transcribed it in but it's like the very first revision of it and apologies if it's annoying!

Unifinished Cat Platformer (Debug)

by solar

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Also here is a debug version where you can "fly" and also go beyond the beginning and end of levels and have random cart data interpreted as platforms. This was one of the most interesting things to me during dev.

A 3D Engine You Can Walk Around In

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 05:20:30 UTC

webigogeya

by solar

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I have been working on this on and off for the past year. I've lost steam on it and if anything I'll revisit it as something to make a racing game in, since the basic feature of it is that the walls can stretch on "forever", procedurally.

Right now you can walk around in it. There are cute animal characters... that you can clip right through. You can move with the arrow keys and strafe with the action buttons. If you mash both action buttons at once a few times you can see some debug info and also clip through walls. You can teleport through "doors" which are the black squares on the walls. You can sprint by double tapping forward. There's also a couple of other areas you can't teleport to at the moment, but you can get to them by setting AREA to -3 and -5 in the code.

I spent a lot of time on this and it's doing all this super clever stuff like cramming a bunch of poly data for the props in the spritesheet, using the least amount of bits possible to describe them, and drawing the sky textures in a similar way.

I don't know, have fun! I'll see if I can actually make something out of it sometime.

EDIT 2023-07-01: Re-added a missing end-comment-block line that mysteriously disappeared.

Endless Brussels Sprouts

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 02:05:00 UTC

Endless Brussels Sprouts

by solar

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This is a remake of part of one of my favourite c64 demos: Incoherent Nightmare by Arsenic. Endless brussels sprouts drawn into 6 framebuffers at 60fps.

trip.swf (PG level rudeness)

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:41:49 UTC

trip.swf

by solar

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Original here. I wonder how obscure this is. I first saw it floating around like a decade ago now. If you recognise it, then... enjoy.

I'd been working on this video encoder thing for a few days and it turned out this clip compresses really well, likely because of big blocks of colour and not that much movement. And so I decided to make a cover as well.

I need exact change only...
Heeeere's fiiive buuuuucks.

Cartoon Cat Karaoke

Sun, 16 Oct 2016 07:38:13 UTC

Cartoon Cat Karaoke

by solar

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I don't know. I had the idea for this for forever.

You can press down to go half-speed, left and right to scan through the parts of the chorus.

It's a cover of this.

The audio and graphics go out of sync and I've coded to accomodate for this, but it seems like it's unpredictable. You'll probably hear a glitch as it loops. On my machine the graphics are like .5% slower than the audio. IF YOU REALLY WANTED TO there is this M variable in the code you can tweak.

EDIT: Alternate self-corrupting version.

Corrupt Cat Karaoke

by solar

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Possession

Sun, 29 May 2016 14:57:12 UTC

Possession

by solar

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Unpolished! Ambitious mechanic! Probably infuriating!

Mash the arrow buttons to transfer "possession" of the blue and pink balls. When a ball is possessed it can break through the silver barriers. Everything else is just chaos. Press X to restart the level.

Solar Sketches

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:51:25 UTC

Strange Sexy Worms

by solar

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I continue to make things that serve only to entrance.

Here, stare at this.

If you like you can press Z to randomise the parameters until everything goes crazy.

Rainy Day Sale!

Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:10:05 UTC

Rainy Day Sale!

by solar

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Rain puns!

Just something that looks pretty. If you wait 10 seconds you get different scenes on the TVs. You can hold left and right to alter speed of time passing, press down for forward/reverse.

Two Hiking Cats Have An In Depth Discussion About Life The Universe And Everythi

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:44:56 UTC

Two Hiking Cats Have An In Depth Discussion About Life The Universe And Everythi

by solar

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Hello everyone.

I bought pico8 like a week ago after my friend kept linking me awesome stuff on the forum here. The "exercise" and "now is fornever" ones were particularly inspiring to me.

On the weekend I sat down to make this scrolling background thing and then I just kept running with it. It's mostly a ton of lines, circles, and the mod operator. There isn't much point to it. You can press left and right to change speed, press up to randomise the palette, and down to reset those changes.

EDIT: 42 stars!