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What is inside the data.pod file

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:17:37 UTC

what does data.pod file contains cart data ? i looked inside it bunch of ? and weird characters

Platformer engine

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 05:55:59 UTC

Platformer engine 0.1v

by yippiez

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Hey this is the platformer engine that i created
i will be happy if i can help
more happy if you can help

Only thing wrong about the code is i got verticalspeed and horizantalspeed variables mixed up
so 'vsp' vertical speed is left and right 'hsp' horizantal speed is up and down

download the code here from github

how does exporting works?

Thu, 31 May 2018 06:36:19 UTC

How does pico-8 export games isn't it a program itself is there a complier and assembler inside pico-8 i understand the html javascript part it creates a little emulator with cart data embedded but i could not understand how it turns them into binaries

draw a line between 2 objects

Tue, 29 May 2018 09:05:53 UTC

So i have a make actor function which creates a circle random in the screen and adds it to actors table i have the keyboad mouse enabled, so lets say i generated 2 circles on screen what i wanna do is when clicked first it should draw a line between mouse and the circle object(i have sucsesfully implemented this) what i wanna do now click the second object and stop drawing line between circle1 and mouse and draw a line between circle 1 and circle 2 (kinda like circ1.connected =circ2 and circ2.connected=circ1) but they are generated through out the game so i cant put their names in like that

stat(30) problem

Fri, 25 May 2018 08:45:25 UTC

i'm using stat(30) it works fine it shows the keys but it returns " " when i press backspace,space,ctrl,shift is there a way to get these keys press status?

export 2 cartridges in one executable

Wed, 23 May 2018 11:12:16 UTC

so i have an intro cartridge who plays the intro and then loads the game with load() and it works fine but how can i export the game so it can be played

Read from file?

Tue, 22 May 2018 11:29:08 UTC

i know i can possibly write to a file with printh how can i read from a file then?

is it possible for to receive keyboard inputs?

Tue, 22 May 2018 11:28:29 UTC

is there any way to receive keyboard inputs like a simple program where user types anything to the program and program will display it.

How does map/spr works

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:00:50 UTC

Can someone explain to me how map and other works in pico8
(What i mean is when you look at the p8 file in editor you see all the map and other stuff with bunch of number/letters i am asking how are those letters and numbers work

Pico 8 team up

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:38:03 UTC

Hey everyone i would like to open something similar to a group.
Where we would have converstations on pico8 help each other.
And for the best part we would make github projects together and learn together :D

https://discord.gg/2rJjMuN

How to check if all enemies are dead

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:47:09 UTC

so i have a function where the enemies have enemy1.isalive = true enemy2.isalive = false so i got that system working so how can i check to see if all enemy1.isalive are false (BY the way all enemies are in a group called enemy = {} i add every one of them sorry for no snippets)