Go on a byte-sized adventure with Lemonhunter. Find items and gold inside the procedurally generated caves. It's up to you to decide if you want to fight the monsters, or avoid them. If you're lucky you might find the golden lemon of your dreams at the end. Only have a couple minutes left in your break? Don't worry, speedrunners will be rewarded with extra points!
Controls
z/c - jump
x/v - attack
down+x/v - throw a bomb
Version 1.0 Update
Now with music by Gruber
Please play the game in the exe version of Pico-8 if it runs slow in your browser, or try version 0.3 below.
Version 0.3 (30fps)
Changelog
Released under CC4-BY-NC-SA license. I'm sorry for the source code. It's a mess since I ran out of tokens and had to remove comments because of the size limit.
Some sprites are shrunken down versions of art by Sebastiaan van Hijfte
http://i.imgur.com/RFKVq.png (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Pretty amazing for a first game. Collision detection is great, definitely gonna dig through your code a bit
Wow what a great game fam!
I mean...
Wow what a piece of trash, I hate this!
Actually never mind, it's so good!
I'm kinda upset that your internet friends randomly kill flightless birds
I can assure you that he only orders fried flightless birds when he's hungry.
Really nice little PICO-8 game. Reminds me of Spelunky. Well done.
Thanks. My goal for this project was to figure out how platformers work. How do I add monsters? How do I define their movement patterns? How can I have gravity work on all objects? Stuff like that. A Spelunky-like game seemed like the perfect way to do this, since the random elements give it a bit of replay value, so it's also enjoyable for me to play.
It also helped me understand momentum better. I always hated platformers with heavy momentum, so at first I started completely without momentum. But that also didn't feel right, so I played around with different levels of momentum until it felt 'right' to me. But because of the momentum it became very hard to jump into 1 block high passages. To fix that I added a smaller jump. Problems like this are things you only think about when you program things yourself.
Btw, if anyone wants another goal to beat. The current speedrun record for a no% run (don't pick up any gold or other items) is 1:37. Any% could also be interesting, since you can skip the boss in that category or go down floors a lot faster if you find the cat's paws item.
I'm enjoying my time with this, too. Captures a lot of what makes Spelunky fun in a more simplistic sense.
Is it just me, though? Or would it be better if the bombs just "placed" rather than dribbled out... and then could be "kicked" by hitting it with the spear afterwards? A couple of places makes me wish I could up-X to use a rope, too.
Glad to hear that you're enjoying the game.
I've played around with letting the player simply drop the bombs with down+x and throw them with up+x, however it felt less fun. With the small throw you have to pay attention when you want to use a bomb and then hope that it works out. It also allows you to throw bombs to high platforms or further away.
Ropes are something that I initially wanted to add to the game, but I decided to design it in a way that forces you to go down and not come back up again (unless you got the double jump powerup). There are a couple places that will lure you with items, but turn out to be a trap if you don't have bombs. However it should always be visible beforehand, if you can't get back up in a room after you jump down. There are also a bunch of pushable boxes that you can use as stepping stones to higher platforms. And there's always a safe way through the level if you use the ladders.
Later this week I'll upload version 0.42 which comes with a bunch of improvements, the biggest one being 60fps support. There are also a couple new and improved rooms and item flowers are now more rare, but offer a way higher chance of good items instead of only giving you a bit of gold. If you want to play the game with laying bombs down instead of throwing them, you can simply uncomment 2 lines in that version.
I uploaded version 0.42, which is most likely the final version. It now runs at 60fps and has some changes to the layouts. Item flowers now only have a 15% chance of giving you gold, down from 53% in the previous version. There are now less item flowers in the levels, but it's more rewarding to get to them. I also changed it so that only bombs can open crates. You could get stuck by accidentally destroying a crate with the flame sword before and it also meant that getting the flame sword would give you and almost unlimited amount of bombs and life through opening crates.
I added some particle effects, inspired by playing Sne's Eyedventure. There's also a bit of screen shake, that can be disabled with a boolean switch at the top of the source code. The game will drop particle effects and popup text if the CPU load would go over 1.00 to keep the framerate stable.
You can also enter the minus realm now, to reach more places.
just a heads up, this game now crashes due to being four tokens over the limit. I guess pico 8 changed their token count at some point? I was able to get it to a runnable token count on my machine by deleting the special thanks strings, tho I feel kinda bad about that haha. but it seems it runs fine otherwise.
Thanks for the info and for playing! Looks like version 0.1.12 of Pico-8 broke it. I freed up some tokens in the text procedure to get it back within the token limit.
Hey @blizzz, thanks for working around that. 0.1.12 'fixed' the token counting for strings containing escaped slashes which was causing the incorrect lower count.
Love it! Good platformer that reminds me of Spelunky,but personally I like it more cause of the art style and uniqueness, managed to get to the boss before getting owned. (I like your chibi profile too!)
Who's that pokemon? I thought this was a cool little easter egg when I found it.
Absolutely amazing! Really love the game, is there a way that you can provide the code? I just want to see how you made it so well.
@Luckoosh you can just run LOAD #YAJASAHESE in your local PICO-8 and it will download the cart, then you can open it in the editor and look at the code, sprite, map as usual!
Thank you so much! I am new to Pico-8 and i want to get a feel by looking at how other people have done things.
Finally beat it, that was pretty tough!
Thanks, and that was a great ending :D
Finally won with 6 live, 5 crimson bombs, the flame sword, bird feather, cat's paws, and 3508 coins. (Took me 758 tries(yes i counted))
My best setup: 
(Edit, i beat the red guy for the first time with this!)
I give this post a star, a heart and I pin it to profile! Ty for this game!!!
Current personal records are 1:13, and 8935 coins!
Edit: 1:01, and 9414 coins from a 1:09 run
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