If you don't know: The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a warning system in the United States that interrupts TV and radio programming in order to provide important information on events that pose danger to your life. This cartridge replicates the intimidating tones from the system using the secret PCM channel in PICO-8.
Note that the National Periodic Test here is completely fake. There's no voice announcement included for now, due to concerns about hitting the limited storage capacity of PICO-8 carts.
WARNING: Never broadcast the EAS header bursts on TV or radio! The FCC will have the right to fine anyone for such misuse of EAS/SAME tones.
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I decided to mess around with trig functions and came up with this. It's simple, but looks fairly convincing in my opinion.
The code is a mess, I should probably fix it sometime soon.
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When trying to execute pico-8 or voxatron, it shows:
bash: ./xyz: No such file or directory
I've tried:
-Making executable with chmod +x
-Running as root
-Adding to path
-Using a GUI (nautilus) to run it
None of these seem to work. When using nautilus, nothing happens.
Any advice?
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NOTES:
Push boxes out of your way to navigate through the warehouse mazes. But watch out! If you touch a forklift, you'll restart the level. Use hidden, moveable boxes to strategically block forklifts or quickly complete a level. There are currently three levels to complete with more mazes planned in future releases. Play online or download the PICO-8 cartridge below to play locally and review my code. (Note: My code's a bit messy in order to finish by the end of the Movement Jam. I hope to clean it up in the future.) Enjoy!
PLAYER CONTROLS:
Move Left = LEFT ARROW
Move Right = RIGHT ARROW
Move Up = UP ARROW
Move Down = DOWN ARROW
Start/Restart Game = X
Movement Jam: https://itch.io/jam/movement-jam?s=09
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Drop Coin is an endless game inspired by coin drop games such as Plinko and Nintendo Land's "Coin Game".
Try to see how many stages you can complete with your starting coin count, and earn bonus coins by completing a stage in 10 coins or less. Each difficulty has it's own starting coin count.
CONTROLS
Click, Tap, Z, or X - Drop Coin
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A 'flappy bird', or 'helicopter game' clone created in the Pico-8 fantasy game console during an evening learning how to develop Pico-8 games.
Controls (PC):
Z: Menu accept
X: Menu back or Restart (on death)
Up Arrow: Jump (in game) OR menu navigation up
Down Arrow: Menu navigation down
I got much of the base code from this zine https://mboffin.itch.io/gamedev-with-pico-8-issue1 created by @MBoffin, and I built various extra features on his code! So big credits to him for creating a great zine to get me started creating my first game in pico-8.
Additional features I added to his code:
- Main menu system
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Star Scavenger POC
Navigate to module of discovered starship wreck
Collect parts
Fight with hazards
Craft items e.g. 2xSmall Energy Cell + 1x Small Ore Deposit = 1x Medium Energy Cell
There are droids to be crafted!
X - confirm action
Z - cancel action , remove item
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Hi all,
this is my very first game. It is a one dimensional city building game. Any kind of feedback is welcomed.
Hope you enjoy it!
CONTROL
Button UP / DOWN: choose action
Button RIGHT / LEFT: move around
Button O (mobile) / Z or C (desktop): execute action at current position
GROW OF BUILDINGS (level 1 - 6)
- for level 2: fire station and enough energy from wind mills (anywhere)
- for level 3: school and recycling point
- for level 4: subway station and train station (anywhere)
- for level 5: 2x parks / lake / mountains (w/o wind mills) and stadium (anywhere)
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for level 6: attraction (anywhere)
- infrastructure which is not marked with "anywhere", needs to be in the range of 5 blocks
- in case the required infrastructure is available, the mood is good (green bar below the building) and the building can grow
- in case the required infrastructure is not available (e.g. missing energy), the mood is bad (red bar below the building) and no taxes are being paid
EARN MEDALS (level 7)
- to earn medals for leisure, your city needs parks and attractions
- to earn medals for infrastructure, your city needs more fire stations, schools and subway stations
- to earn medals for size, your city needs more and higher buildings
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Update 03/08
Fix: Another bugfix, hopefully for the last. Dambi wasn't showing running and sliding animation and just sliding in the idle animation since 02/27 update, this is now fixed.
Update 02/27
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A short celeste map mod. It's built as a bit of a puzzle, meant to teach you one specific thing about the game's mechanics.
This doesn't require any advanced speedrunning tech (spike clips, corner jumps, etc) -- executing the intended solutions should be possible for anyone who's beaten celeste classic once or twice.
If you're trying something that seems too hard or only barely possible, try looking for alternatives!
controls
- arrow keys / Z / X: move / jump / dash
- E: toggle screenshake
credits
celeste classic: maddy thorson + noel berry
smalleste: a token-optimized version of classic celeste that I used as a starting point
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demo cart
This demo shows off the interface. To use bigmap in your game, see "setup" below.
motivation
The recent 0.2.4 release added support for larger maps:
> Similar to gfx memory mapping, the map can now be placed at address 0x8000 and above (in increments of 0x100). This gives 4 times as much runtime space as the default map, and an additional POKE is provided to allow customisable map sizes.
Larger maps are now possible, but it's difficult to get them into memory -- the built-in map editor only works with vanilla-sized maps.
This cart is a full map editor that makes it easy to make these larger maps!
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Hello :)
(Forever) Beginner level programmer here!
I have been trying to make a top down driving game, and rather than reinvent the wheel I figured I could take some existing carts and use the code to make a player that uses a sprite that can rotate, and move forward and backward.
I found this post for the sprite rotation, which works exactly as I would like, although I can't really grasp how the function is working: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=52525 (example1)
Then I found a cart of Asteroids by @mccolgst: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29903, stripped out all the stuff I didn't need (example2), and have been going between these 2 carts to try and combine the sprite rotation function with the desired movement.
Unfortunately I hit a wall and my latest effort was example3, but I'm quite lost honestly.
Can anyone shed some light on how these carts work and how I could go about applying a forward movement to a rotated sprite?
Many thanks in advance!
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Good morning <INTERN NAME>.
You've made a terrible mistake.
There's no turning back now.
creator: Andrew E. Brereton
date: 2022-01-16
twitter: @aebrer
website: aebrer.xyz
medium: Pico-8, Lua
license: CC Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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First PICO-8 game, made a while ago but never shared.
Messy little retro space game, featuring:
Functional gameplay
Thrilling boost mechanic
Various different enemies
3 Intricate Levels + 2 Boss stages
Gripping and entirely necessary story
Music
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