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Tame Cat Battle

Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:51:36 UTC

Tame Cat Battle 0.1

by afburgess

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--[[ TAME CAT BATTLE ]]--
(also mostly known as rock, paper, scissors..)

This is a little game I made as an example of how to implement a high score system. It saves the player name, along with their high score into persistent cartridge data. It is based on my cat, who has frequent battles with our neighbours cat. I have however, toned down the violence significantly, to make the game accessible for all.

Go check out my project called PicoBoard to learn how to implement a high score into your game, or leave a comment!

Would love to see who could get the highest score, of this game of complete chance and endurance..!

Baba Gee the cat walks the fence

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:33:38 UTC

Baba Gee the cat walks the fence

by afburgess

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Just for fun!

QWERTY Boy - Keyboard for PICO

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:44:28 UTC

QWERTY Boy 0.5

by afburgess

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-- 0.5 --

Added blinking text cursor
1646 tokens

QWERTY Boy 0.4

by afburgess

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-- 0.4 --

Numbers & Symbols keyboard
(Potentially annoying) keyboard sounds
Weird bug fix for the PocketChip version of Pico-8
Token count has creeped up to 1529

QWERTY Boy 0.3

by afburgess

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-- 0.3 --

Keys now flash when pressed - would love to know opinions on which colour works best!
Cleaned up + fixed a backspace bug
Improved hitbox accuracy

QWERTY Boy 0.2

by afburgess

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-- 0.2 --

Backspace
Space
Cleaned up a bit to cut down token usage (at 1168 tokens, 4136 characters)

QWERTY Boy 0.1

by afburgess

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-- QWERTY Boy --

This is a keyboard for pico-8! Its still very much a work in progress, but hopefully soon I can turn it into a text adventure style game.

This is my second attempt - you can find my first here: Pico Keyboard 1.1.

There are a number of changes to QWERTY Boy, including;

-- New QWERTY layout --
Makes a lot more sense than an a,b,c,d,e.. layout. Keys have been drawn so its easy to see the hit boxes when tapping on the PocketChip screen, or clicking with a mouse. Designed so it can be easily changed to AZERTY, and other layouts.

-- Significantly less token usage --
Currently down to 1300 tokens from 5122! There is still quite a bit of fat left to cut off too, so I'm hoping that the final keyboard will be under 1000 tokens. I would have to hear your ideas about how to write the code most efficiently.

-- Removal of Up,Down,Left,Right Selection --
I felt that nobody would ever tolerate playing a text adventure through manually selecting keys, so I removed it to save a bit of space. Tapping on the screen works great on PocketChip! For playing in the browser, I plan to add support for this project: p8keyboard.js. If this works out, I will also add support to 'hide' the keyboard GUI.

Let me know what you think!

@afburgess

PicoBoard: Text + Number Entry Keyboard

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:22:54 UTC

PicoBoard 1.3

by afburgess

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--// PicoBoard //--

PicoBoard is an easy to integrate keyboard overlay function which you can use in your projects. It uses the arrow keys to select a character, and is ideal for inputting a character name, a high score, or any other short piece of text. If you are looking at making a project where you input large quantities of text, you might like to look at my other keyboard project, QWERTY Boy, which uses a touch/mouse interface.

--// 1.3 //--
Whats new::

Excellent optimisations from Sibwara, resulting in a reduction of over 100 tokens!
Keyboard sounds
Picoboard can now be called in your project just with the function Picoboard().
The UI isn't as large now, so will be able to see more of whats going on behind Picoboard

Still to come::

Instructions + Demo of how to implement Picoboard into your project
Some better SFX for the keyboard (would love your help + contributions!)

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--// Previous Versions //--

PicoBoard 1.2

by afburgess

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--// 1.2 //--
This version has be written from the ground up!

Now only 658 tokens (down from 5119 tokens in the previous version)
The text display now centres
New blinking cursor
String is stored in a table along with a string

--// Legacy Carts //--