Made by Turner Austin in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 54.
Fulfill a hacker's demands to recover the "very important file" before the viruses overwhelm you. All while on the worst operating system ever. DeskStop-30 OS can only have 30 files and 30 windows at once, so good luck.
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In less than 24 hours, the asteroid X-437 Fatalis will collide with Earth, wiping out almost all life. Thousands of rockets are waiting to ferry mankind to the safety of the stars.
You are the captain of one of these vessels. And you have a problem.
There are fifteen people waiting to board... but only six seats left.
Talk to the passengers, then decide who to save and who to leave behind. Some passengers’ fates may change depending on who else you save, so multiple playthroughs are recommended.
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= Info =
"Over the Garden Wall (Ep. 1-3)" is a 2D Pico-8 Zelda-inspired adventure game where you play the titular characters introduced to us by Cartoon Network's gem of a mini-series of the same name, Over the Garden Wall. The story spans the first 3 episodes of the show: "The Old Grist Mill", "Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee", & "Schooltown Follies".
This Pico-8 game was completed after on-and-off efforts over 3 years (first commit was Sept '21). The Pico-8 game uses 96.6% of available tokens and 99.99% of the compressed capacity.
= Controls =
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Trick or Three
I made this for Halloween 2022 and missed the deadline. Picked it up again a few weeks ago and found a nasty bug. It turned out to be bad code, which I am really good at. I rewrote most of the routines and now it seems to work 😅.
Update #2
Minor overhaul: I updated the cart with some minor fixes:
- new SFX
- new title screen
- deleted some unused stuff
- minor optimization
Update
Added a routine to detect proper gaps all over the cauldron. Apparently I needed a shitty day at work to come up with this.
How to play
Use the arrow keys or d-pad to move around the cauldron. Hold down x, z or any controller button on a tile and move it around the cauldron with the arrow keys or d-pad. Match at least three tiles of the same type to remove them from the cauldron. But beware: Don"t create gaps in the cauldron! They prevent you from moving tiles around the cauldron and will cost you a life. Try to match as many tiles as possible to refill the cauldron.
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Jam Version
Post Jam Version
Controls
Use the arrow keys or ESDF to move.
Aim with your mouse and click to shoot.
How to Play
Shoot enemies to increase your combo. As your combo goes up, your space will shrink, and more enemies will spawn. Your bullets can't go outside of your square, so enemies will get dangerously close to you before you can shoot them. You have 3 lives to get the most points you can, so go for the high score, and don't get walled in!
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it is not possible to delete the high-memory with one memset-command
poke(0x8000,1) poke(0xffff,1) ?peek(0x8000)--1 ?peek(0xffff)--1 memset(0x8000,2,0x8000) ?peek(0x8000)-- still 1 / should 2 ?peek(0xffff)-- still 1 / should 2 memset(0x8000,2,0x7fff) -- ?peek(0x8000)--2 ?peek(0xffff)--1 |
the first memset is ignored, because 0x8000 is -1
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A little music cart I made for a game jam. Enjoy!
You can get free high quality renders of the songs here: https://dogsplusplus.bandcamp.com/album/brand-gnu-me
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-- CROSSGUNR D PLUS -- ANOTHER FREE UPDATE!!! --
So I took the code from CrossGunr: Infinite, and I....
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New Graphics and Adjusted Music
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Less slowdown, smoother gameplay ( sorry cave fans! )
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New EX mechanic ( bubbles ) - no bar gained during EX's ... will make it a bit harder but still tuned to perfection!
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Repair Locator (for when you're busy dodging hellfire!)
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Boss Healthbars (yay!)
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Score differential (how close are you to beating your high score?)
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5 Scores saved on cart - PERMANENTLY!
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Restart Run in Menu (For when the run is forfeit.. :( )
- Reset Scores in Menu (For no reason at all)
Enjoy
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A flooding cave is a terrible place to find yourself - especially if you happen to be water-soluble.
In Floodwater - my entry to the Ludum Dare 54 Compo - you must ascend through a series of eight floors, solving puzzles to clear a path as you race against an ever-expanding pool of deadly water.
The game can be played entirely with the directional buttons. If you need to, you can restart a level with X.
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1K ARENA is a basic "Survivors-like" top-down shoot 'em up created for the PICO-1K Jam 2023. It uses 1023 compressed bytes of code for graphics, sound and game logic.
Features include:
- Animated player, enemies and background
- Multiple weapons with different behaviors
- XP/level-up system
- Persistent splatter effect!
- Sound
Instructions
The goal is simple: Survive as long as possible! You control the player using the directional buttons/arrow keys. When you die, press the X button/key to retry.
The top bar is your HP. The bottom bar is your level progression. Pick up experience from defeated enemies to level-up and gain additional weapons.
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X to accelerate -- try to stay on the ground to maintain speed!
This is a 1022 byte cartridge made for the pico-1k jam, but while I was commenting it I found a bunch of unused junk, so now it is 999 bytes compressed :) (see the code in tab 1, minified by @thisismypassword's excellent Shrinko8 )
pico1k entry page: https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2023/rate/2289420
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Hi @zep, found a parser bug for ya:
for --[[a]]e=0,1 do print(e) end print(fore) |
expected: 0 1 [nil] (this is what lua 5.4 outputs)
observed: [nil] 0
pico-8's highlighting works correctly, but the runtime seems to see this somehow:
fore=0,1 do print(e) end |
system: linux / pico8 0.2.5g
I ran into this while using shrinko8's annotations (for --[[preserve]]e=0,1 do)
Workaround: add an extra space (for --[[preserve]] e=0,1 do)
edit: ah! this thread has more cases / info: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=51618
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I was inspired by The Science Elf on YouTube creating Minecraft on a calculator so I thought I'd make my own little version for pico-8, it is completely playable using the base pico-8 controls so it does suffer slightly as limited on buttons and didn't want too many complex button combos.
I don't see this as much more than a little time waster game but I hope you enjoy it and I'd love to see any builds made in it. Redstone does work although it most likely will have issues, pistons work too although same deal expect issues.
I did make sure basic circuitry would be doable with the Redstone, so there are Redstone torches exclusively for NOT gates, there should be enough there for some cool logic things such as binary adders but it will probably be a bit annoying to place.
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@zep if you open this cart in pico8 and save it, pico8 inserts an extra byte at the end (0xff) (this is wrong, but additionally it is very confusing because my text editor thinks the text encoding has changed and starts displaying weird unicode everywhere)
pico-8 cartridge // http://www.pico-8.com version 41 __lua__ ?'hi' __meta:title__ cooltitle |
After some minimal testing, the conditions necessary seem to be:
- the file ends with a
__meta__section (__gfx__doesn't trigger the bug) - the file does not have a trailing newline (the last byte of this particular file is 'e', not '\n')
platform: linux / pico8: 0.2.5g
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A simple way to break Pico-8's palette.
Changing the screen palette using poke(0x5f2e, 1) and then changing the red or dark red / purple colours, then running, exiting, and going to the sprite tab results in the above image. The red and dark red colours get paled in by Pico-8.
Thought it would be an interesting first topic. Have a good day!
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Little Boo Games
Bram’s Daydreams
Goblins have stolen the marshmallow skulls from candy lake! You must find them!
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This is a game I think I want to continue making.
You're a robot with a gun.
I'll leave out the story details for now..
Press X to shoot
Press O to interact with things (like doors)
Let me know what you think and if you have any cool ideas!
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