Can you dodge the police drones long enough to see gay magic be legalized?
Arrow keys move your witch. The drones will appear from off screen and try to crash into you. You have to try to draw them into hitting each other instead. For every 50 pts you get an extra heart. For every 100 pts you get an extra life. The police can only send so many drones at a time, so eventually they will run out and you can move onto the next level.
Z/X have no function other than continuing through the intro, level up, victory, and game over screens.
This is my first game complete enough to share here!
edit: small bug fix on victory screen
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The Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick have simple remotes and their applications can be little more than web applications.
An example of the remote: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/remote-input.html (also includes relevant docs for Fire TV.)
Using the Internet browser within my Fire Stick "works" for PICO-8, but appears to use a touch screen interface. I am forced to use my remote to drive around a virtual finger to either use directional buttons or press the fire/jump buttons. This isn't a functional interface when using a remote.
Personally, I'd be willing to pay money to get Splore as an app on my Fire stick instead of having to deal with the web interface at all. The remote should work really well for these games, and it would be great to play them on my projector.
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A blizzard duel between rivals! Grab a friend or play against the computer in this one-on-one stand-off.
Created as part of PICO-8 Advent Calendar 2018 organized by @Bigaston.
Controls
Player 1: Left Shift
Player 2: N
Goal
Win a best of five against your opponent. Mash the button to create your snowball, and then time your throw carefully. If you throw your snowball right before getting hit, you'll dodge your opponent's attack!
About Me
Howdy, my name is bridgs, I'm a game designer based in NYC!
- I'm active on Twitter if you'd like to be in touch
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I was getting a little bored of my main project, so i took a detour and made a tweetcart!
All it has are 2 little houses on a snowy hill, but it looks pretty nice in my opinion.
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This is a little animation/transcription of Walking in the Air from "The Snowman," an animated film from 1982 that I must have first seen in about 1987 or so. I recently watched this film again and it left a really strong impression on me, and I felt I had to make this little PICO-8 cart celebrating it.
Update 1-1-19:
Happy New Year! I made a few more improvements to the karaoke animation so the text scrolls more smoothly, the currently sung line is highlighted by a drop shadow as the ball slides across it. After more testing it looks like the code for tracking elapsed ticks is working great on all platforms. (except if you navigate away from PICO-8, there seem to be issues but it appears to affect other carts too not just mine?)
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x=x+shl( 1, y ) |
Works fine.
x+=shl( 1, y ) |
Syntax error: unclosed (
x+=shl(1, y ) |
Syntax error: unexpected symbol near ')'
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Still chipping away at sound design and _update() sections of my other projects. Little by little, they're going somewhere, or so I'm telling myself.
But this season hit some high traffic at work, as expected, so in light of having any real concentration-allowing downtime, I started visuals on what I'm hoping may turn into a "fundamentalist Terraria" project I'm simply calling Terra.
This little 32x16 chunk; sprites 126-127, is the biome metamap which defines the whole 416-screen world:
While some of these screens will be packed solid, or have little notches of ore carved out of them, a good chunk of screens will also be tunneled/mapped by applying variants of these other (lower end) tiles; often meant to mash in some treasure hunting and world structure. I'll probably also have to use some manual scripting to input minecart tracks and space for their use.
The top section is the player and basic objects/platforms in the game, and the middle section is enemies/creatures. I'll probably put some more "player head" variants in there for humanoid enemy types. I'm hoping to make four boss creatures, one for each corner of the map area (??); and maybe a 3-minute day/3-minute night cycle. Something you can mash through in a 15-30 minute sitting, but still full of surprises and exploration, you know?
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Hi all,
I'm what can be called a pico-8 player: I've written something by myself in this years but I love pico-8 for the neverending streams of "bathroom games" made by talentous people here. ( I thank all of you, i rediscovered the joy of playing this type of games).
The problem here is that the mobile player is giving me some serious issues:
NOKIA 6 2018
ANDROID 9
CHROME:
Can't go fullscreen, it's completely broken
FIREFOX:
Can't go fullscreen either
When pressing buttons, after the canonic 3 seconds the button remain highlighted ( and sometimes pressed)
I cannot play anymore on my phone, and this is making quite a bit sad.
I've some experience in javascript and html and I can try to fix it, if @zep give me his authorization.
Let me know, I don't wanna wait till my tiny pi pro!
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Wow. PICO-8 is extremely fun to work with, and I'm so happy I stuck around to learn how to use it!
Right now I'm learning how to work with tables and 'objects' to sort of port a game I'm currently developing called HellHole. It's a top-down shooter where you choose between controlling your body or the bullet (which is your soul).
So far, I've managed to not slow down the game with a shit ton of instances and that makes me happy!
I'll leave you with a gif of the latest bit of progress: A spawner, soul particles, and screen-shake.
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The function peek4() does not properly check its number of arguments, so calling it with no arguments will cost zero cycles. Combined with any other function that costs fewer cycles than its number of arguments, such as shl(), this can be exploited to reclaim CPU cycles.
Here is a function that reclaims n cycles:
function reclaim(n)
for i=0,n/5 do
shl(peek4(),peek4())shl(peek4(),peek4())
shl(peek4(),peek4())shl(peek4(),peek4())
shl(peek4(),peek4())shl(peek4(),peek4())
end
end
|
I do not know to what extent this can be exploited, but here is an example.
The following program runs at 15 FPS:
function _draw() for y=0,127 do m=3+rnd() for x=0,127 do pset(x,y,(x+7)*m%5) end end print(stat(7).." fps",1,1,7) end |
But this one runs at 30 FPS:
function _draw() for y=0,127 do m=3+rnd() for x=0,127 do pset(x,y,(x+7)*m%5) end reclaim(200) end print(stat(7).." fps",1,1,7) end |
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106 frames of animation, compressed and embedded in the cart (half in the code, half in the gfx segment).
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To play follow the instructions and press the shown direction faster than your opponent. Use "x" to confirm and "c" to go back in menu.
For ethical reasons a vegan mode is included and can be activated via the settings.
(However we promise in our production and testing phase no animals were harmed.)
Feel free to comment and write us critics etc, as we are still learning and this is our first project.
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I have started measuring function costs precisely, because I like accurate things. It’s all on the wiki but not fully complete.
Here are a few funny things I already learned:
- <code>x^.5</code> costs 16 cycles, whereas <code>sqrt(x)</code> costs 27
- <code>x^4</code> costs 8 cycles, but <code>x*x*x*x</code> only costs 3
Some of these, such as clipped <code>circ()</code>, are pretty tricky to measure, I hope someone can help!
Edit: removed claim about shl() because that function behaves a bit differently.
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8 DAYS | RANDOM GENERATED GAME TITLE | PICO 8
Confusing Prison Mansion and what we did with the title.
This prison is so boring. I mean what are you supposed to do with all this free time.
Read books? No… and the interior as well. It‘s so lame. Could do with some color and nice new furniture.
To be honest I‘d rather be in a mansion right now.
Collecting keys, opening doors and stepping on that mysterious light spot might help with that.
Oh, and don’t get caught by the cop!
Confusing Prison Mansion is a challenging puzzle adventure created by three tired Students. For the first ever game we created, we had the challenge of using a random game title. We generated our game title with The Video Game Name GeneratorThe Video Game Name Generator.
Hope you enjoy our game.
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The greatest pillow fight the world has ever seen!
Ancient Bedtime Smackdown is the first and only game with knights, a castle, a battle and a wonderfull, thrilling pillow fight in the whole world.
Defend your castle against evil knights, smack them down with your pillow or throw teddy bears at them.
Rebuild your castle wall an don't forget to heal yourself.
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TOXIC BUBBLEGUM CONFLICT: jump as high as you can!
Your quest given by the high order of bubbles has chosen you to jump as high as possible. But beware, some bubbles might disappear after jumping on them.
Get as high as you can to ensure your place in the skies.
How to Play:
-Press X to start the game
-Use arrowkeys (left/right) to move around and jump on the bubbles
We are a small team of game dev students who made this game in our very first game jam.
If you liked our game or have constructive feedback, please leave a comment down below.
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Escape the Squirrel Park before your time runs out!
You are Marshall Mushroom, a lonely mushroom in the well-known Squirrel Park in Germany. No more brethrens of yours are left and your last task to do is to survive and try not to die by the murderous Squirrels.
How to Play:
- Use arrowkeys to move
- Press x to interact
- Collect all nuts and escape the maze
- Don't let the squirrels hit you
- You have 60 sec and 3 lives
- Collect Clocks to expand time
- Collect the blue icy nut to slow down the squirrels
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This is a 'pretty unusual' Zombie-Shooter made by two students in less than two weeks!
In this game you are not the muscular Rambo-kind-of-guy - no...you are a Little baby who is shooting zombie babies!
So pull your diapers up, load your gun and be ready for the 'Baby Zombie Apocalypse'
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Imagine you are a tough crusader living the medieval life. A great dragon attacks the castle and instead of just attacking the dragon and saving many lifes, the princess decides that it is more important that you save her holy cheese collection. Of course you follow her wish, because it is her, the beautiful princess, Britney, who you want to impress all your life.
So grab your loyal sword and shield and face the massive dragon... to collect the cheese bit by bit!
contacts:
Vanessa Schulz: Programmer (actually an Artist, but took the role of a Programmer)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Twitter: @vanessa_s_99
Instagram: @nessa.s.99
Pauline Kuemmeler: Artist
E-Mail: [email protected]
Artstation: littlecryingDEMON
Instagram: 100per_cent_uncut
Steam: littlecrying
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