I've released the first eight lessons of my new music theory tutorial, available here: https://bikibird.itch.io/music-theory. It's designed for people who want to make their own music for PICO-8 games, but feel they don't have the skill or talent to do so.
The tutorial provides an introduction to the basics of pitch, melody, harmony, rhythm and composition within the context of PICO-8. It explores music in a decidedly mathy way through a series of interactive demos that use spatial relations to connect sound to vision.
Only the parts of music theory that are relevant to PICO-8 are covered. No prior knowledge of music is assumed. There's no reading sheet music or needing to play an instrument.
More lessons will be coming in October.
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So it turns out I never uploaded the first game I ever made. I thought I had lost this thing for years. Recently I found an old broken version and managed to fix it up to be releasable. Enjoy!
Controls
Arrow keys to move
X to drop a bomb
How to play
Dropping a bomb will cause it to drift for a bit before exploding, it will also spawn in another eyeball. The more eyeballs on screen the more points you get for killing them. You have 30 seconds to get the highest score possible.
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Vacay Volley
by Ellery J. Reyes
To celebrate the last days of summer, join Ollie on the beach in Vacay Volley!
Vacay Volley is a simple game where you juggle a ball in the air as long you can without letting it touch the ground. Watch out for wandering crabs and gulls while aiming for red balloons. Hitting 3 balloons will temporarily double your points. Dive if the ball is out of reach. Thanks for playing!
Controls
Arrow Keys or D-Pad to Move
Z or 🅾️ to Jump
X or ❎ to Dive
P to Pause
To return to the main menu, pause and select "Back to start"
Credits
Design, Programming, Art, Music, and SFX
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PICO-1K Jam 2023
The 3rd annual PICO-8 1K Jam (#Pico1k) has now started! 🥳
🌐 https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2023
You have until the end of September to make cool things in PICO-8
...by using only 1K (1024) Compressed Bytes of code 🗜️
No pre-defined Sprites, Maps, SFX or Music data allowed.
ALL content must be created using code.
It can be a:
🕹️ Game
🎞️ Demo (Animated or Interactive)
🛠️ Tool or Utility
...whatever you can fit within 1KB, basically!
It's a relaxed, non-competitive jam, running for a whole month.
Please refer to the PICO-1K Jam page for Rules, FAQ & Resources & more info.
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Added sound effects and music in collaboration with Jessica C. Soler and Ethan C. Simpson.
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Potatis-1 is in danger!
Help the race of sentient potatoes (Also know as Potatians)
fight the evil alien edibles of planet Fruitius Veggius!
Controls
Left/Right to move
X to shoot
Move outside of screen limits to wrap around!
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Another Tetris
It's just an another Tetris version. Made in 48 hours by Luife.
Music by Nabo.
Control:
-Left and Right: Move
-X,Z: Rotate
-Down: Accelerate
-Up: Instant drop
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks for playing.
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Hi all! It's time once again to start building a PICO-8 holiday calendar thing of some kind. Usually we keep the games a secret while they're in development, so each game is a surprise when it releases in the calendar. If you're interested in participating, shoot me a DM on Discord (thetomster) and I'll get you added to the server where we coordinate things!
We're looking for winter or holiday themed games, and games will need to be wrapped up by the end of November. As we get closer to the deadline we'll look at how many games we have and make a decision about what format to run. The past couple years we've run it as a "twelve days of christmas" thing, but if we get enough sign ups it would be great to get back to a full 25-day calendar.
Interested in joining? DM me on Discord (my username there is thetomster)!
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welcome to sweepermine! more-or-less a puzzle game. your goal is to number the amount of red tiles surrounding the selected gray tile. use the arrow keys to select different tiles. use ❎ to confirm, and use 🅾 to change the number.
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You were born in an unassuming star system but your fate lies in
The Heavens
Carve a path through the stars, conquer asteroids, colonize planets, and unearth the mysteries of an ancient alien race as you build your stellar empire. Your ultimate goal? Chart a course to the edge of the known universe!
The universe awaits — are you ready?
Controls & How to Play
Master your controls to navigate the cosmic playground:
Directional Pad
Thrusters: Hold the UP button to engage.
Turning: Use LEFT and RIGHT to maneuver your ship.
Mini-map: Hold DOWN to view your galactic surroundings.
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--eng--
move the atoms and bonds to form the indicated molecule.
press and hold X to reset level.
--pt-br--
mova os átomos e ligações para formar a molécula indicada.
pressione e segure X para reiniciar o level
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I am pleased to announce Questionable PICO-8 Audio (QPA), a compressed audio format for PICO-8.
(Compatibility note: if you encoded any QPA files before 2023-09-07, please see the Changes section below.)
DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR 30K PICO-8 CART
Oh, but I will!
Your song is synced with the clipboard - you can copy your songs out to text files (or this thread!) and paste song strings back in to the cart. You can right-click samples to preview them, and you can right-click the play button to skip the intro sample. Numeric modifiers come before the thing they modify. Hopefully you can figure out the rest!
Copy/paste is a little annoying on the web player, and PCM audio can also be unreliable on the web, so consider trying this cart on desktop PICO-8 if you have it.
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Here's a small cart I made to learn PICO-8.
There's a menu item in the pause menu that allows you to customize the settings, like the number of pipes spawned.
Inspired/based on pipes.sh.
This is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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