Hey all, wanted to introduce my latest PICO-8 project: ZUBGUBBLERS!
ZUBGUBBLERS is my take on a minimal party game for 2-4 players heavily inspired by the classic game Qix, Splatoon, with additional inspiration from Frank DeMarco's Seam of the Vultures. I wanted to avoid using sprites for the most part and just leverage lines, boxes, and fills.
The goal is to paint as much of the background your color by the time the game is over. You do so by holding button 1 (Z) to expand a box around your player. Releasing the button paints the background your pattern; however, you can also hold a direction and dash (X) into other players. If another player dashes into your box while you are expanding it, the background is painted their color!
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I notice that the YouTube field of the BBS profile only accepts alphanumeric characters, and whatever is entered becomes a link of the form www.youtube.com/<alphanumericfield>. I'm mostly ignorant of how this part of YouTube works, but my understanding is that not everyone can reserve a youtube.com/<alphanumericfield> URL. You need a certain number of followers, have qualifying channel art, etc. Everyone gets a www.youtube.com/channel/<randomlyassignedalphanumeric> channel URL, but I can't enter that into my BBS profile and get a working link.
There's some history with G+ URLs that I've forgotten the details of. It looks like anyone can reserve a www.youtube.com/c/<alphanumericfield> URL. At least I have one, not sure how. But I can't enter that in either.
I think the YouTube profile field needs to accept more values and/or provide hints in the profile form on how to link a profile to a channel.
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A passion project of mine, a somewhat FTL-inspired Space Invader. Fight, loot, survive.
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If I type this:
Look at my `inline code` please. |
I get this, which I'm just going to let the BBS handle, so it might look right to anyone reading this after it's fixed:
Look at my inline code please.
The second backtick isn't closing the inline code.
As an aside, I personally would prefer it if inline code were simply a monospaced font, and not inverted as it is now. It makes using inline code very ugly and hard on the eyes. :/
I do like the old-printer-paper code block format though. :)
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I notice Benjamin Soulé's username doesn't show up right, even after your emoji fix.
See here:
https://lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3421
Looks like this at my end:
It seems to work fine inside this post's text though.
Edit: Yeah, there's some kind of encoding issue, not a font issue, because if I copy and paste it here, it still comes out "Benjamin Soul�", even though I was able to write it correctly above.
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LEGEND OF THE BUFFERKING: A turn-based 'enemy rush' arcade game.
I'm debating whether I should actually release it, as in it's current state, I feel that something that makes it fun is just missing from it. :/
- No Sound
- Here be bugs
CONTROLS: X to Continue/Select, O to Go Back
If you HP reaches 0, you die.
Your SkillKard only functions when you have enough CP to use it. Moving around the panels slowly refills your CP gauge.
Your energy meter decreases as you move around the map. If you run out of energy, you have to REST, otherwise you can't attack or move.
You can only attack an enemy if you are on the same vertical line of them. The more energy you have, the more damage you will deal! Attack types go on a cooldown once used.
Thanks for playing! Constructive criticism is of course always welcome!
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Not A Creature Was Stirring (...Except Squeaky Whiskerson and his Marvelous Musical Mice!)
This is my cart for Day 7 of the 2018 PICO-8 Advent Calendar project!
Turn up your speakers!
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I don't know where I should post this so I'm doing it here . Hope it's no trouble.
I'd like to get some sources, tutorials, explanations about how to make some classic
effects used by the demoscene (like dot tunnels for example)
I'm trying to study some codes I got here on the lexaloffle website but they are a bit difficult, for me to understand and help would be appreciated.
Does anyone have any books or website to recommend that i could read? thank you very much
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A semi-sequel to "Untitled"/"The Untitled Experiment".
Help Bluestone wake up by delivering all of the gifts, all the while watching out for the indigo guy.
How to play:
Hide behind an item to avoid getting touched by enemies.
First, you'll need to press the red button to get the raincloud. Then, you can break the orange rocks at the cave's entrance.
Second, you'll need to deliver the five presents to the five blob friends. The red guy only accepts red gifts, the orange guy only accepts orange gifts, and so on.
Third, deliver a purple gift to the purple guy. Then, you'll want to get to the top-right corner of the map.
Controls:
Z: Jump
X: Grab
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Controls
Z or Up = Jump
Down = Fall fast
This is the first game I made with PICO-8.
I used a lot of similar games as reference.
Thanks!
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I don't have a problem with there being a running, searchable list of featured carts, as was added in the new BBS update. However, it is problematic that adding that seems to have removed the option to sort through all carts by the number of stars they've been given. It would be appreciated if we got that feature back in addition to the new one.
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The fullscreen button on the mobile web interface seems to have broken all of a sudden. Instead of displaying the screen, the fullscreen icon itself is displayed really big, stretched to fill the screen XD it's actually pretty funny.
(it's actually a pretty critical issue though because the mobile controls are super buggy and unreliable unless you're in fullscreen mode)
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I want to learn how to start making games and this program seems like a nice way to start learning.
But does it have Isometric capabilities? Like 2.5d?
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Following on from the 'some carts kill the browser tab' thread, those carts are no longer hanging for me, but there's still something funky going on in some of them compared to the desktop version.
It's most noticeable with https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=16351:
edit: background differences are more obvious at full res, sorry for the poor vertical alignment.
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Does the Windows installer for PICO-8 include both 32 bit and 64 bit releases? Just bought the Voxatron bundle and am wondering if I’m all good on this.
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Your kittens are in danger! How could they survive in such a crazy world?
You must return them home safely. Select the color of the kittens you wish to call and they will follow you everywhere.
Controls:
- Navigation and player controls: arrows
- Call your kittens: X
- Validation and jump: Z or W
This is the entry for Ludum Dare 43 we made with @Niarkou.
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