I recently left my job as a full stack developer to pursue game development. Over the last two weeks I put together this prototype with a friend who does art. Would love some feedback if anyone has time.

Ella in the Dark

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Ella in the Dark

by SeanGreen

Cart #dowawijozu-3 | 2022-03-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Thanks, Sean

hey, i found an old project of mine, i think i should probably remake it. (or just fix it up and such, you decide!)

famifikuro

by kirbofan

Cart #famifikuro-0 | 2022-03-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

5

controls:
	when out of menu:
		o: jump
		x: use/place held item (or use currently targeted block)
		</>: move
		^/v: target up/down
		v: make < and > scroll the hotbar
	when in chest (the green ones):
		o: exit (and jump)
		x: move 1 item
		</>: change selection
		v: select from hotbar (hold)
		take the chest item: collect the chest
	when in crafting table (the red ones):
		o: exit (and jump)
		x: craft 1 item/one of the recipe
		</>: select
		^/v: useless for some reason
		craft the crafting table item: collect the table

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GrassZone St Patrick's day update

GrassZone 2.8

GrassZone St Patrick's Day Update

by iannl

Cart #gzstpatricks-0 | 2022-03-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

3

Zomboslash 0.1

by summertimealice

Cart #zomboslash-0 | 2022-01-12 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

3

POSSIBLE EPILEPSY WARNING FOR SLASHING ANIMATION. I WILL WORK ON THAT AS SOON AS AM ABLE.

This game is a work in progress. Basically a twin-stick shooter but you have a sword instead of a gun. Zombies with green dots restore health when hit.

I'm honestly not sure what to add next. I'm really happy with the general feel of this gameplay, though.

All suggestions welcome! (But please understand if my code is bad lol)

----CONTROLS----
ESDF to move
Mouse to aim
Click to slash

Thanks to anyone who plays!

Hey, can one of you solve this ? It doesn't make sense to me.

This code:

function doit(x,y,d,r,c)local b,e,h,v,a=x,x-r,y if d==1then b=y e=y-r h=x elseif d==2then e=x+r elseif d==3then b=y e=y+r h=x end for i=b,e,sgn(e-b)*2do a=b-i
if(d==2or d==3)a=i-b
end
end

Runs correctly. THIS code, however, does not. All I did was move the if(d==2 or d==3) to the line above.

function doit(x,y,d,r,c)local b,e,h,v,a=x,x-r,y if d==1then b=y e=y-r h=x elseif d==2then e=x+r elseif d==3then b=y e=y+r h=x end for i=b,e,sgn(e-b)*2do a=b-i if(d==2or d==3)a=i-b
end
end

I get a SYNTAX error.

Any ideas on what the problem is ?

Due to the weird way that SteamOS is set up, there are some frustrating compatibility issues that I will explain.

In SteamOS, the system partition is locked to read only, rendering pacman, aur, and yay totally unusable. You can run a command to make it read-write, but you run into the following issues

• There is a very small amount of available space to install apps on the system partition
• The system partition is wiped every SteamOS update (and made read-only again)

So while you can potentially make the system partition read-write, install PICO-8 via yay, and then repeat that process every single time SteamOS updates, it essentially isn't practical.

So, the alternative option would be to just download the PICO-8 files, extract them to an arbitrary location (like ~/Games in my case), and set the "pico8" file to have execute permissions. This kinda works, with the notable exception being Splore. Splore relies on wget for its networking functionality. Unfortunately, wget is not pre-installed in SteamOS, and cannot be installed normally due to the above mentioned issues using pacman and such. I tried various methods of taking a local wget executable and trying to locally add it to PATH, though no method succeeded in it being recognized by PICO-8 Splore.

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combine_table

by shiftalow

Cart #combine_table-0 | 2022-03-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

1

Feature Overview

COMB() combines two tables to create a hash table.

• Returns the joined table.
• The two arguments must be tables of index arrays.
• The argument is nondestructive.
• Hash tables are not in constant order. (This is a Lua specification.)
• This function consumes 26 Token.

local keys={'name','species','home','skill'}
local values={'ruth','fox','port town','kon-psi'}

local charcter=comb(keys,values)

may want to Use DMP() if check the converted table.
This function is included in the KNUTIL library.

picochill

by Gruber

Cart #picochill-1 | 2022-03-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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From the album Pico & Chill - a collection of seven ambient and lo-fi inspired tracks. (Bandcamp]

The idea for this album started in February 2021, when I posted some lo-fi inspired music, originally written for a Pico-8 game. Comments were encouraging. I was also interested in exploring ambient structures in Pico-8, and thought they would pair nicely with lo-fi music.

Thanks to Zep for the incredibly cute (and meta!) artwork and animation. I love everything about it. There's about 40mins of animation, which can be seen in the YouTube video:

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Im trying to make an inverse or reverse for this function to countdown. How do I make a countdown timer?

function _update()
print(time())
if time() >= 10 then
time=0
end
end

Logical Pickle

by ooooggll

Cart #logicalpickle-0 | 2022-03-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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(Part of the ooooggll box game pack):
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/639317807/

A pickle-themed Logic Pic Demake with 16 levels, some of them based off PICO-8 games I like!
For instance, Celeste, Jelpi, and Feed the Ducks. But all credits are inside the cart.
Except for Meep. Thanks to Meep for inventing penguins.

If you haven't ever played Logic Pic or a similar game before, I would recommend trying one of them first, since there is no real tutorial in-game.

This does require a mouse to play, so make sure you have one of those.

oatmealadventure

by ooooggll

Cart #oatmealadventure-1 | 2022-03-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

4

(Part of the ooooggll box game pack):
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/639317807/

Controls:
Arrow keys - Walk
X - Inventory
C - Pull box

Technically this is my "first" PICO-8 game. It's the one I started on first, and I finally finished it. Mostly it was for me to learn how to use PICO-8 but I ended up making it into a full game thing. Just don't look into the code though, it's pretty bad.

Story:
You need to acquire the Oatmeal Amulet from the dungeon to heal your sick brother, but there's no way to get into the dungeon without a key! You need the Old Man to help you get in the dungeon... then escape unharmed!

Thanks to Dylan Bennett for the tutorial, but I went quite a bit beyond that.

scrollesteupgrade

by ooooggll

Cart #scrollesteupgrade-0 | 2022-03-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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(Part of the ooooggll box game pack):
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/639317807/

Scrolleste, but without lava and with stars and with checkpoints and better colored ground and hair and sky once you get the gem, and also I added the lava back.

Also known as Scrolleste Upgrade.

This mod (technically a mod of my own mod of someone else's mod of Celeste) was meant more as practice for PICO-8 and Celeste modding, than as an actual quality mod. Better mod(s) coming soon though.

Modes:
Normal - No lava, checkpoints at Old Site, gem chest, and at the summit.
Yolo - No lava, but no checkpoints. If you die you go back to the beginning.
Lava Yolo - No checkpoints, lava added back. Basically the classic Scrolleste but with new graphics.

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field_of_view

by dw817

Cart #field_of_view-4 | 2022-03-15 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

5

VVHAT'S NEW ?

• made them all tweetcard sized functions!
• made beam bigger.
• allows for different types of beams.
• made beam comparison smaller and faster code,
• uses less cpu.

I have coded this so the two primary elements of drawing the beam and checking to see if there is a collision with the beam are now small functions.

The drawbeam() function for instance is 280-characters and the inbeam() function is 225-characters which returns TRUE if there is a collision.

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pandaandchristmas

by alexoro412

Cart #pandaandchristmas-0 | 2022-03-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

11

Hi all, I just finished up my first game for PICO-8. It's a cute little walking simulator featuring Panda, Christmas Attack Snowman, and the True Meaning of Christmas!

Also on itch.io

I started out by trying to replicate the tree effect from Duck Duck on the Loose by stacking circles with perspective. Once I had that working, I made a few sprites to fit into my little world, and it kinda just snowballed from there.

I'm trying to make a radial sight function for the enemies in my game

I want them to know if the player has entered a radius around them, and be able to control the angle of their sight according to their direction
So basically it's checking if the player has entered a sector of the radius around them, and also being able to control the percentage of the sector and its direction.

I thought about splitting the radius around them into directions, as seen in the image. I'm not sure if that's right.

I'm terrible at math so I couldn't figure this one out, I'd appreciate the help

this is the closest solution that I found, but I couldn't make it work
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-whether-point-exists-circle-sector-not/

Thank you for checking out my very first game!

I am 9 years old and my Dad is helping me.

robohefato

by ralloway

Cart #robohefato-0 | 2022-03-13 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Controls

It's pretty simple! Just use the up, down, left and right keys move your character through the maze.

Game Play

The goal is to retrieve the flag and bring it back to the door at the start of the maze before time runs out.

There is a loaf of bread that you can pick up to leave breadcrumbs. If you walk over breadcrumbs that you've already dropped, they look different so you can see where you have backtracked.

Also placed in the maze are a couple of axes can be used to break walls by running into them while holding the axe.

Keep in mind that the axes break after a certain amount of time, so use them wisely!

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