Just got Pico-8 so I am testing it with a basic game.

I ended up mostly skipping Genuary because of Ludum Dare, but today I decided to write a tiny village generator.

This took me about one hour to write. Every time you run the cart, a new tiny village is generated.

There is nothing special going on. Walls are placed first, then doors and floors following a flood fill algorithm. Everything else is placed by sampling the map hundreds of times and checking for placing conditions.

The code is a bit of a mess and, looking back, I can see several easy places to reduce token count and increase variety. Maybe I'll revisit this before the end of the month. Maybe not.

I hope I'll have some time in march to participate in 7DRL. I have ideas I want to put into practice.

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procedural-generation genuary village building

My first attempt on pico game. Starting with classic. Undone. Some animations required as bug fixes.

2048 undone

Aquatic ventures!

aquatic ventures is a game where you're a fish, running from other fish!

I know, not that much fun, but it was fun making it!

Share your survival time with your friends, as it gets saved!

Controls

• arrow keys to move

This is Oraphin's Fish Simulator. Control Oraphin Killster through the side of a lake and make him collect 100 fish.
Watch out though, a Goomba is trying to take you down cause it was not having a good day.

Controls: Arrow keys to move. that's all you need to know.

Press X to change music to a more weirder tune.

Warning! This game gets near impossible to beat after you collect 50 fish. You have been warned

There's no reset option so you will have to restart the cart to try again if you die.

This game was made during my time in my Computer Science class. It's not the best cause this is my first real game. at least it works!

Enjoy!

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CyberBox

This is a PICO-8 port of CyberBox, one of my favorite DOS puzzle games, originally created by Doug Beeferman in 1991. You can play the original game in your browser here.

Music: Pico-8 Tunes Volume 1.
Fireworks: Particle Tutorial: Fireworks.

puzzle remake

This is a little demo I've been toying with. Its really barely a game, but it does show off a couple useful functions:

• Generated ground tiles with some decorations.
• Collision detection between the player character and the generated ground.
• Drawing triangles.
• Rope physics effects, used for the characters tail and flags.
• Some simple decorations, like clouds and background mountains.

There's really no "Game" in the sense that there's no objective or fail condition (although if you fall off the screen you're probably in a non-recoverable scenario).

educational demo runner

For now I'm only posting to make it easier to share this game with my friends for feedback. I'll write instructions on how to play later

strategy turn-based turnbased

Itch.io Link

Introduction

To take root Among the Stars is a short narrative platformer.

Play as Mei Hashimoto, one of the colonists send to an exoplanet to prepare it for the arrival of the rest of humanity.

Explore the colony and its surrounding flora and fauna. Talk to your fellow colonists and send a message to earth via the relay station at the top of the nearby mountain.

Controls

Movement

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narrative exploration platformer sci-fi lgbt

A tiny little time trial game inspired by Balloon Fight. How much stuff can you collect before the timer runs out?

arcade ghost highscore time trial

cucumber man pico-8 pico 8 pico8 pico8 pico-8 fun game good playable 2sprites

Github repo here -> https://github.com/lesleyrs/pico-paint

This is my first completed cartridge, made for people who don't like clicking or want to try something new.

It allows you to paint, copy, and paste 8x8 pixel art into pico-8 games without requiring a mouse.

Key shortcuts:

• arrow keys to move
• x to paint
• c + up or down to change active colour
• c + left to turn background colour into active colour
• c + right to change move delay
• enter for the other settings

Copying and pasting is not as efficient as i'd like because of the built-in limitations of writing to and reading from clipboard. Make sure to ctrl-c after pressing copy in menu, and ctrl-v before you press paste in menu. try:

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tool paint pixel-art key keyboard

Voronoi-adjacent thing. Can't quite fill a screen with these, but it's still a neat effect.

Run in PICO-8 EDU

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voronoi demo

catlegs
(requires a mouse)
(press c to flip cat)

cat legs

This is a re-skin of Pac-Man [#TinyTvJam] made by Scathe in 2017. I wasn't able to put the logo of my game, so there is a silver Pac-Man logo at the back of the arcade cabinet instead. Hope you joy this game and feel free to leave some of your thoughts

controls:

X to start
left and right arrows to move the boat.
down arrow to start fishing.

point rewards:
grey fish +1
yellow fish +3
red fish +5

easter egg if you hit highscore 69 ;D

Who wants the Afterburner Font on a sprite sheet. Do you? Yes you do. Have at it.

Transcribed from them lovely "Arcade Game Typography" by Toshi Omagari, published by Read Only Memory

font

Hello,

Is there a way to know if a channel is busy? I think it is not in the manual, but perhaps I've miss something.

sfx

I think ever since @carlc27843's Impossible Mission R.T. cart came out, people have been wondering if they could make background music for a cart using PCM synthesis. carlc27843's Emulated Amstrad CPC Chiptunes post discusses using its engine that way, @luchak has had to let people know that the RP-8 groovebox can't be used that way ... folks are curious.

I don't know a lot about digital audio synthesis, but from the conversations that have happened in the PICO-8 Discord, it sounds like there's roughly three sides to the equation:

Cost

• How many tokens and bytes are cart designers willing to give up to the soundtrack? @bikibird's Speako8 Speech Synthesis Library is under a thousand tokens - is that a good target?
• What percentage of PICO-8's CPU budget? Four voices with 25% CPU seems possible in a few different ways, but is that too much to give up to background music?

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