Bury a dancing crow behind a wall of peanuts. This is what it wants.
Hey! This is an idle game designed to put the player in tension between queuing more actions (and hence making progress) and actually witnessing the gameplay.
Also, there's a chiptune. It incorporates Pico-8's built-in sound, but also some homemade synth code for the bassline.
Epilepsy warning: there's a little flashing, but all of it is localized to small areas of the screen. (under 16x16)
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Well, I've always been a big fan of FPSes, so I wanted to try to see if I could pull off making a raycaster. So, I made a top-down maze-style "game", then focussed on getting the raycasting to work. It's based off of what Isaac Games has done with raycasting, and I've also got a "shoot" function, though it only works once (so far).
That being said, unlike my earlier releases, this isn't really a game, more of a "baseline" that I might use to make raycast FPSes in the future. I still need to work on stuff like textured walls, doors, enemies,, some fine-tuning, "smooth" walls, and maybe even actual levels. That's a ways off, so I hope you enjoy what I've managed to do so far!
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Grow Dungeon
A short platformer that takes place in a deep, damp cavern. Unlock abilities and grow plants to reach the end!
Controls
- Move - Arrows
- Jump - O
- Staff - X
Credits
Programming and Art - Cannon
Level Design - Snycent
Music - Lark
Play the original on itch.io here.
Try out Death Dungeon!
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Here's a gif of me copying GFX data to code:
Here's a gif of me copying SFX data to code:
And here's a gif of me Copying music data to code:
So far, so good. Every bit of data copied also edits the clipboard, allowing these to be copy-pasted between instances of PICO-8.
But not so for map data! So here's a gif of me attempting to copy map data...
No edit to the clipboard was made. (Prior to each of these I had copied the -- TEST STRING TO COPY line to make it clearer.) Admittedly, you're not likely to ever need to copy map data between carts, but if you do (such as when working on a multicast game, or if you're transferring ideas from a prototype cart to the cart you plan to use for the full game) then it's gonna be real tricky to do so.
This issue was brought to my attention by the (as of now) latest episode from @Krystman on his advanced Shmup tutorial. Look around the 5:30 mark; he can easily copy the sprite sheet, but map data requires him to edit the P8 files directly, which works... but if you want to make the copied map data appear somewhere else rather than exactly where it was or only copy a small portion of the map, then that still presents a problem.
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Made this in early 2019 as a first pico project. Straight clone of DEAD EYE -- you're moving left and right and shooting (out of your hat) to keep the coin in the air. Score points for directing the coin into bats and birds, game over when it falls.
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Join Froggo on his seasonal platforming adventure!
Features
- Aesthetic levels with Seasonal vibes
- 8 levels utilizing different mechanics
- Secret code to find at the end of the game!
- A frog with 2 feet and comically long tongue
- Cool frog game by the person who almost exclusively make cool frog games
Controls
Z - Jump
X - Tongue
Arrow keys - Walk
Preview
Development
I've always enjoyed watching documentaries and what not on how developers in the past has to work with technical limitation with their games. These limitations often results in weird quirks in the game and also its unique style. So I decided to take a small break from my main project and try out pico-8 to see what it's like to work around these limitations.
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Help with tables
So I have a function for creating text with sprites (I'm sure people have done this already, but i specifically want help with one thing):
charspr{74,75,76,77,78,79,90,91,92,93,94,95,106,107,108,109,110,111,122,123,124,125,126,127,138,139,140,141,142,143,154,155,156,157,158,159,170,171,172,173,174,175,186,187,188}
charname{"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","0","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z",".","-","!","\"","\'",",",":",";","𝘹","?","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"," "}
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Base info:
Just a simple raycaster I whipped up, code is original but based off a big mish-mash of articles and tutorials I used. Nothing
groundbreaking, but it might be informative or interesting to take apart the code. I hope this helps someone; I probably will add on to it in
the future.
Controls:
P1 up/down (arrow keys) to move in said direction
P1 left/right (arrow keys) to strafe
P2 left/right (S,F) to look around
P2 down (D) to look at the map
Navigation:
The crosshair in the center shows where you are on the map,
the dial on the top shows direction.
The numbers in the top left show X+Y position and angle.
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New version is here!
Added features are below;
-Object collision function improved. Now it acts with directions.
-Damage taken system added. Player will be pushed away when player touch enemies.
-Shield system added. Press down to block enemies and avoid taking damage.
Gun and Melee attack system work in progress.
You can change the weapon in the menu.
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Game Gear Studios(home business) By Zero Dark
in 2020 I created my first shmup and as simple as it was, I just fell in love with it. recently i started watching the lazy devs series on youtube and after finishing the series i decided to focus and make a sequel to my first game
I am very grateful for this community and for simply being able to create incredible projects with this tool
Galactic Runner I: https://tic80.com/play?cart=1445
HOW TO PLAY
Galactic Runner II is a game arcade Shoot'em up get on board this adventure and have the worst enemies to kill!!!
Use the following controls:
- Arrow keys - Move the ship
- (X) - Shoot
- (Z) - Bomb (Depletes your Pickups.)
Pickups
defeated enemies will drop pickup. Collect them to increase the strength of your Bomb. Triggering the Bomb will deplete your pickups. You cannot use the Bomb if you have no pickups.
If you collect 10 pickups you will restore a life. If you already have 3 lifes you will get points instead. After collecting 10 pickups your stock will always reset.
Credits
I would like to thank the developer of this game and the entire community that provided the music, sprites, everything. thank you very much
Lazy Devs/Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@LazyDevs
Gruber/Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@Gruber_Music
Cherry Bomb Game:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=116115#p
Sincerely, Game Gear Studios - 2023
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I wanted to present a small game that we made during gamejam GRAWITACJA 2023 in less than 36 hours. The keywords we drew (in polish) were 'laska' (babe/chick) and 'salon' (salon).
In an attempt to combine these keywords into a coherent whole, we constructed a small beauty salon in which you have to draw a beautiful eyebrow to the girl who brought you her dream design. Unfortunately, you are a novice salon owner and the only painting tool you have, allows you to draw triangles. Any mathematician knows that every possible shape can be constructed from triangles, so good luck. Drawing eyebrows has never been so confusing and so annoying.
Beat your own scores as the game stores your best achievements in each level.
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while looking through the BBS, I found this bug that keeps popping up...
is this just me? has this happened for other people?
view the recording of the bug here: at this website
(linking to website because the gif was too big :/
you can see the actual bug here: at the bottom of this user's profile
I am posting this here because I have no clue where else to post it! :p
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Gruber Jam #3!
Started as a challenge of repurposing parts of my previous jam, Space Lizards
Here's my first session writing this:
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Day night cycle
Hi! I made a function to add a day night cycle. It shifts the palette and takes two arguments, hour and minutes. The palettes can be modified.
First you can see it in action here:
Thing to note
- The night palette is very different from the rest, adjust it based on your sprites. Originally this palette was made by Achie72
- It is very token intensive at the moment. That can surely be optimized by either cleverly contstructing the palettes at runtime or deleting those you don't use. But I kept it like this for readabilities sake.
- Maybe adjust the time to your needs. I took a shorter day as a model but you could also change the times(ho=hour in the function) in code
function set_pal(h,m)
local pals={
--night palette from achiegamedev - thx ♥
{[0]=0,129,130,131,132,133,5,13,2,4,137,3,1,141,136,143},
--regular second palette
{[0]=128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143},
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Medibot bash aka 'Golden Cudgel'
Recent reports of a Chinese woman apparently seeking help at a hospital (her expressions of frustration, at having pre-assessment performed by a robot) inspired an early morning effort to mash something together..
Partially pulling from some of my previous prototypes - (perhaps passing some problems with the newer pico 8 web export format).
tech notes: Just basic draw order rules/collision and rough looping animation at this stage. I would like to control the length/speed of the animation loop and corresponding sounds, suggestions with this or various methods to avoid obvious sfx clipping (ie how to execute as 'oneshot') are appreciated.
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