And I'm not just talking about putting an emulator in a specially designed box, you could obviously do such a thing. Rather, what I'm talking about is having all of the consoles hardware implemented in discrete logical chips, effectively removing the "fantasy" from the phrase "fantasy console". This might sound like a daunting, if not impossible task, but I have reason to believe it is quite possible!
You see, the official implementation of the Lua programming language doesn't just interpret it's source code by analyzing the program tree. Rather, it compiles it into a bytecode which is then emulated as a virtual machine. In fact, this virtual machine is the reason why some code takes longer to run than other code, because the program is also emulating the amount of time the CPU needs to process it.
With this in mind, it seems like it should be entirely possible to create a physical version of one, assuming that a Lua bytecode CPU actually existed. Slap it together with some RAM and a BIOS, and a surprising form of merchandise just might be born! What some of your thoughts?
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This is my very first game in Pico-8.
I made this game based on the original cave driver tutorial from Dylan Bennett on the fanzine Game Development with Pico-8.
This work have a bunch of features that i had in mind, thinking about how to make this a fun game. Also a little bit of hallowinish.
Features
- Enemies
- Collectible (coins)
- Random effects
- Animations
- Title screen
- Persistent Score
Collectibles
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[8x8] |
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This is Pico Tower (Pizza Tower Demake)!
HISTORY VERSION
Update 1.0.1!
what has been added:
1.:a new enemy has been added
2.:the backgroundof level 2has been changet
3.:now pizza face 8 has no life 2
have a nice game!
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BUN BUN SAMURAI
Overview
The Hero, weary of fighting in the endless wars fueled by squabbling nobility, wanders across a countryside overridden by bandits and wild ronin. He hopes only to return to the peaceful village he once called home. Wherever he goes, he protects the weak and helpless, leaving no evil unbloodied.
Gameplay
- Movement - Directional buttons.
- Attack - Press direction and [O] button.
Attacking and Combos
- Killing an enemy grants the Hero Prestige.
- Enemies are not killed by direct attacks - only by knocking them into other enemies or objects. Knocking an enemy into more enemies or objects causes a combo chain worth more Prestige for each impact.
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I'm wanting to get full keyboard and mouse input for my games, but I can't seem to find anything on it in the pico-8 forums or in the pico-8 help itself. It would be awesome if someone could help!
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demake of the modern classic hue blaster
https://misspeltpengin.itch.io/hue-blaster
version 1.1:
control type mouse:
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scroll wheel: change color
left click: shoot
arrow keys: move
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control type controller:
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x: change color
z: shoot
d-pad: move
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enemy details:
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circle:
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health: 2
speed: moderate
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triangle:
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health: 2
speed: fast
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square:
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health: 4
speed: slow
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someone can help me with this?
objs={
player={
upd=function()
--function
end
}
}
function _update()
for i=1,#objs do
objs[i].upd()
end
end
idk with its not working, i tried on normal lua and it worked
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I'm a newbie programmer trying to make a game with pico 8 education! input is welcome!
Player 1 movement: D-pad
Player 2 movement: ESDF
Player 1 bot toggle : Z, X
Player 2 bot toggle : Tab, Q
Reset: ctrl + r
Score 11 first to win!
Now playable on mobile browser! (Single Player Only)
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I notice mapdraw(), the deprecated name for map() got removed from jelpi.p8 at some point, but it's still being used in cast.p8.
Also, I see band() in jelpi.p8 when we want people using the & operator instead.
Maybe set up a script to grep the demos for the known-deprecated functions and just add new patterns whenever something is deprecated, then run the script before the each publish?
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Hi,
Further enhancements to the compression format (10-20% smaller, especially in photos), and about 2x faster image rendering.
I made the repositories public, pls give them a try :)
The encoder: https://github.com/afunai/pen_encoder
The decoder: https://github.com/afunai/pen_decoder
The slideshow: https://github.com/afunai/pen_decoder/tree/slideshow
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UPDATE
1.02
- Added PUPS FOUND display to OPTIONS MENU.
This keeps track of consecutive PUPPERs rescued and is reset when you LOSE. It is saved after each WIN, so you can close the game on the TITLE SCREEN, before starting another run, and continue your streak later. This will reset if you quit out during a run. - Tuned down Levels 7 to 10 slightly.
- PUPPER now is deactivated if they step on a ZAPPER.
- Bumping PUPPER when they are active will now give you +1 ENERGY!
1.01
- You can now shoot walls to destroy them and open new paths.
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How to Play
Catch the brightly coloured baby robots to reveal the hidden green button and press it to get to the next level whilst avoiding the rogue robots. The game will ease you in gently but fair warning, the later levels are old school 80's tough!
Don't Panic Rob is a homage to the single screen platformers of the early home computer days and modern classics like Donut Dodo, Darkula and AnnaLynn. The original version was uploaded to Itch as part of the Cre8 jam. This is version 2 which fixed bugs, edited controls and added some extra polish.
This is a game where you die a lot, but want one more go until you complete all 7 levels!
Controls
⬅️ Left ➡️ Right
❎ Jump
You use boost or drop pads to move onto different platforms
❎ Boost Jump when on a jump pad
🅾️ or ⬇️ Drop when on a drop pad
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Classic Picotris
A (mostly) accurate NES Tetris clone
Features:
- NES Tetris scoring, speed, DAS behavior, blocks rotation and spawn.
- On screen DAS gauge.
- Four different themes to choose from.
- A "Customize" screen with some gui options, like showing/hiding the DAS gauge and stats.
- Fully working replay system: after each game a "replay.txt" file is created, simply drag&drop that file into the replay menu to load it. Alternatively, a replay string is copied to your system's clipboard for quick sharing. A Ctrl+V on the replays menu will load the replay currently in your clipboard.
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It's snek
You can change the colour of snek to your favourite pico-8 colour <3
Unless your favourite pico-8 colour is colour 0 because then snek would be invisible =[
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.p8)
Hi, I was seeing if it was possible to build a fake 3D solar system model and I think it came out pretty well so I decided to post it.
I saw some other carts with nice procedurally generated or handmade planets, spherical distortion, etc, but I haven't seen any pseudo-3D planets actually orbiting around.
The cart will randomly generate a solar system, and the controls are just the arrow keys to rotate the camera (with left and right) or zoom with forward and back.
There's no actual 3D rendering being done, it's just using sin/cos to make the circles rotate with a slanted oval pattern and at each loop around the sun, a variable is flipped and then the list sorted so that they are drawn in order.
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