I saw kenney.nl released a free CC0 set of 8x8 city-themed tiles in the PICO8 palette, which looked interesting (thank you Kenney!)
Because that set includes more tiles than would fit in a PICO-8 cart, I chose a subset that were most interesting to me and copied them into a PICO-8 cart so I could play around with a few ideas, with some very quick throwaway code to let me move and animate sprites, layer them on top of each other so I could have cars "drive behind" trees, and so on, just to help with prototyping visual ideas.
I saw a few people posting on Mastodon asking if there was a pico8 cart that included these assets, so I figured I'd share this in case it was useful to anyone else for playing around, to save the time of slicing and dicing the tilemap into a PICO8 format. Note: I modified a few of the sprites and added a few other unique combo sprites and accessory sprites for the types of terrain intersections I found myself wanting to draw, but 99% of this is just directly the asset pack from above, packaged into a PICO8 cart.
I played a lot of Celeste corruption mods, including Bad Berries by praiseafrog, which was the main thing that inspired to make this.
In this mod, the game slowly corrupts as it goes on, but the rate of corruption increases each time you dash. It works like Real Time Celester but each dash adds 2 to the corruption amount.
I've never beaten the game like this have fun lol.
This is based on Real Time Celester by AdamMcKibben and of course the original Celeste by Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry.
Hey! I've been at this for a few hours now but I'm stumped
How do I implement it so that as I reach the edge of the map it endlessly loops back around? I'm trying to do this with a parallax effect on 3 (or maybe eventually 4) layers but I keep ending up walking into blank space
from launch, the easiest way to see this is to just try to walk backwards
only one of the layers is fully drawn but It's not looping correctly at all. some things are commented out as I was debugging but as of rn I'm lost
thanks in advance for any help
###This was originally created for the 2023 4MB Game Jam which had the theme "Quantum Jump"!
This version has been given a few additional quality of life features and polishes to make it more of a game and less of a tech demo. Only one level though because I was shortsighted coding my transitions and I'm finally acknowledging to myself that I don't want to refactor this further. If you're dying for more magic flying squirrel in space action though, let me know and maybe I'll dust it back off!
Basic Controls
X - Launches from gravity wells, or tuck in his wings to fall faster. Press x to start the game.
Left and Right arrow keys - Move while mid-air
The Story
Another little game for the four-year-old, who is unaccountably into bin lorries. Seriously, once a relative came round with a present for him and they were all like, 'sorry, I wanted to get like a fire engine or something but they only had this dustbin lorry, I'm sorry, I'll take it back' and it was, reasonably enough I suppose, quite hard to explain to them that no, this is exactly what he wants, this is better than a fire engine.
Anyway.
Drive the bin lorry to the bins, get out (with O) and pick up the bin (with O), then walk it back to the truck, put it in the truck (with O), get back in the triuck (with O) and keep going. There are 30 bins, get them all emptied into the truck as fast as you can.
Just a color spiral thing I thought was cool, and wanted to share with friends! 😅
rev01:(updated, cleaned up the code a bit, and added psychedelic mode 😆)
rev02:(...we don't talk about rev02)
rev03:(was playing around with some prameters and thought the effects were interesting, so added a system to where the user can play with them themselves! param numbers are in the bottom-left, scroll through them with left and right, multiply / divide by two with up and down.)
Pling Plong Galaxy!
A Revolutionary Spin on Classic Arcade Gaming!
Dive into an electrifying reimagining of the iconic brick-busting genre. In Pling Plong Galaxy!, you're not just moving side to side - you're in full 360-degree control! Steer your ship in a continuous loop, keeping the ball bouncing and smashing bricks, but always stay alert; one wrong move, and it's game over. Combining classic nostalgia with a fresh twist, this game offers endless excitement.
Do you have the reflexes to master the circle?
I found a simple way to use printh on Windows without any setup by using Terminal in VSCode.
Using Lnk file
- Drag and drop the lnk of PICO-8 into VSCode Terminal;
- Press Enter to run it;
- Use
printh
in PICO-8!
Now printh will output its info to VSCode Terminal.
Using p8 file in VSCode
And if you set pico-8.exe as the default program to open your p8 file, you can just drag and drop your p8 file in the VSCode to Terminal. It will open PICO-8 and load the cart and printh
still works.
Another way by editing lnk file: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=42367
Controls:
Use the arrows to move. You can use O/X to move the player left or right.
On the keyboard, Z/X corresponds to O/X in the game.
How to play:
Your main task is to reach the exit which is shown in green. The starting position is in red, and yellow is the teleport that teleports you to the gray color. Watch out for obstacles that are active when fully exposed, only then can they kill you. When you die, you return to the starting location.
In "Timer" mode, your task is to get the highest score possible. Finishing rooms and collecting coins gives you points, while dying from obstacles takes them away. Finishing rooms also gives you 5 seconds to the timer.
CONTROLS
Left - Slow Down
Right - Speed Up
Z/O in the menu to select the chosen flavour from the menu
SINE SURF
SINE SURF is a Bullet heck-ish type of game where you play as a pair of eyeballs stuck on a rapidly moving sine wave dodging flying hands who are very eager to poke you in the eyes.
The goal of the game is to survive for as long as possible by avoiding the hands while trying to keep up with the sine wave so that you don't get eaten alive. Try to survive as long as possible so you can get the highest score and unlock new flavours along the way. Beware, for the longer you survive, the more frequently the hands begin to appear.
Total Planetary Destruction
06 September Edit:
- Fixed some bugs
- Added label name and author (which I forgot to include oops)
This game was my entry into the 'PICO-1K Jam 2023'
The aim of the jam is to create a game in under 1,024 compressed bytes. I managed to get it done, with 11 bytes to spare! Definitely cut it close.
Happy planet hunting!
Itch.io Page -> https://stadam.itch.io/solar-harvester
Game Jam Page -> https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2023/rate/2249182
I'm seeing an issue on mobile (Android) when trying to play any cart.
Once ran, the top buttons for fullscreen, mute, etc disappear. I can no longer toggle fullscreen to play on my device.
I have just noticed that this happens when you are logged in. If I log out from the bbs and try to run a cart, the buttons show up again :O
(tested on Android with Chrome and Firefox).
Does anyone know a workaround for this? Or is this a known bug? (couldn't find anything by searching the bbs)