Working on some 16 x 16 sprites for Love Letter. From left to right:
Guard
Priest
Baron
Handmaid
Prince
King
Countess
Princess

board card

you guys probably don't care that i released another one but here are the changes:

press x/o to turn invisible
updated menu
music (credits to peter hodgden as i used the main soundtrack from his game: sushi boi)
updated palette

thanks!

ps: this was a happy birthday to my brother.

A simple SameGame clone with limited and endless modes.

Rules

In SameGame, you need to remove groups of like-coloured tiles from a randomly-generated board. Clearing larger groups of tiles will award you more points. You cannot remove individual tiles.
Tiles will fall downwards if the tiles below them have been removed. If a column is cleared completely, all of the tiles to the right of it will be shifted left to close the gap.

Modes

Both modes start with the grid full of random tiles.

• Normal Mode
  In Normal Mode, the goal is to remove as many tiles from the board as possible. The score and move counters don't really mean much in this mode.
• Endless Mode

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samegame puzzle match

Jaw

> The year is 1974. You just got out of the theater and saw that scary shark flick. As you walk home thinking about the movie, you pass an arcade and there it is: A brand-new game based on the movie you just saw. You check your pockets for quarters. Let's do this.

This is my entry for the 2024 FishFest Game Jam. Help Kalea the shark get her dinner. But beware! Barrels of gunpowder, harpoons, and a guy named Quint are out to hurt you. Try to string fish bites together for more points.

How to play

Hold Z or X and release to jump out of the water and eat fish.
Avoid barrels, harpoons and oxygen tanks!

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shark action fish

Here's a proof-of-concept for a zoomable camera:

Features

• Multiple cameras
• Set target coordinates, drawn at the camera center
• Set zoom factor, for drawing scaled map and sprites

Functionality

• camera.get_center()
• camera.set_target(x, y)
• camera.get_target()
• camera.start_draw()
• camera.draw_map(tx, ty, tw, th, x, y)
• camera.draw_spr(s, x, y)
• camera.draw_sspr(sx, sy, sw, sh, x, y)
• camera.end_draw()

Relies on this smap function. Code is below or via GitHub.

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camera zoom

Hi all, here's a tutorial for creating a clone of the game 'Tron' (click the image below):

The code can be found below, or on GitHub

tron game gamedev snake

Hi all, here's a tutorial for creating circular movement, including 'wavy' and circular text (click the image below):

The code can be found below, or on GitHub

circles wavy text sin cos circular

How to play:

Arrows to move, X to start. You can step twice, before most monsters stepping once. There are exceptions to this rule.

Find Swords and Shields to help you overcome the enemy horde!

Search the key, uncover where the trapdoor is, and progress further to grab the McGuffin.

Devlogs:

If you are interested in game development articles, code breakdowns and alikes, I try to document all my projects over at my Ko-fi Page, free to read!

https://github.com/Achie72/kofi-articles

The cart is fully commented out, feel free to download and check things if you are interested in the inner workings.

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roguelike turn based

Agent Seeker

A PICO-8 Spy Hunter demake/remake/homage

Overview

Agent Seeker is a fast-paced, reflex-taxing game built in the style of the original Spy Hunter, one of the greatest video games ever created. [no citation needed]

Drive your heavily-customized luxury sports car down an endless roadway, protecting innocent motorists from a rogue's gallery of menacing enemy agents. Use machine guns, oil slicks, smoke screens, flamethrowers, and armor-piercing cannons to stop as many enemy agents as you can!

Controls

Arrow keys/D-Pad: Drive (l/r to steer, up for gas, down for brake)
Z key / O button: fire machine guns (front-facing, infinite ammunition)

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spyhunter demake driving arcade reflex challenging hardmode fast

PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY (PSE) - SEIZURE WARNING FLICKERING IMAGES!

Just finished a write-up on this but managed to lose it somehow, so here's the short version.

Trying to write a couple of my own Triangle Fill algorithms before digging into any of the ideas presenting in this thread:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=31478

One of the algorithms I tried poorly "borrows" ideas from Brenesenham's Line Drawing Algorithm found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm

I am working on a recreation of undertale's fight system in Pico-8.
There are a lot of issues with this project and many parts of it are incomplete, sooooo...

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The Jelpi demo included with PICO-8, but with a cheat menu that can do some pretty funny stuff.

Cheats

Page 1:

• RESTART LEVEL: Restarts the current level. Unmodified from the original version.
• THANOS SNAP: Activates the glitch mushroom effect, but way more intense. Destroys the game pretty much instantly.
• MAKE BREAKABLE: Makes all of the tiles in the current level breakable.
• SKIP LEVEL: Skips the current level.

Page 2:

• INVINCIBILITY: Activates the invincibility power-up effect for the duration of the current level.
• INFINITE CHARGE: Disables the cooldown on Jelpi's charge attack, allowing him to go very, VERY fast.
• TOO MANY GEMS: Turns the breakable blocks and some background objects into gems.

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Petri

Petri is a chill cellular life simulator. Witness the rise and fall of countless living cells all trying their best to survive and reproduce.

Behavior and ultimate fitness are governed by stats, mutations, and a move-set, all of which are encoded into rudimentry DNA that is passed down to offspring.

Cells that consume enough food become healthy enough to reproduce. Reproduction weakens a cell, but allows it to pass its DNA (with potential mutations) on to the next generation.

Controls

❎ (X): Cycle through display modes
Enter/Pause: Display pause menu and adjust various game parameters

Additional Info

Stats

Each cell has three stats: strength, agility, and speed.

• Speed determines how likely a cell is to move
• Strength determines how likely a cell is to consume energy each time it moves
• Agility determines how likely a cell is to change direction each time it moves

Move Sets

Each cell has a move-set consisting of a list of numbers, 1-4, representing a cardinal direction.

Display Modes

The default display mode will output the number of living cells, the number of total births, the number of total dead cells, the amout of food currently in the environment, and the highest generation achieved.

The text-based display mode outputs the stats of the most recently birthed cells. Move-sets for each cell are indicated by a band of pixels, each color representing a different direction.

Sounds

There are only two sounds effects in the game, one to indicate a birth, and one to indicate a death.

science simulation

This is one of the collection of simple games based on different genres, this one is action, hello, this is a translator, thanks for watching my game, it took me 4 days, I'm new and I hope to improve, thank you

Bubbles go pop

Some small game I made in like a few hours. Just popping some bubbles.

Note: I haven't tested on mobile, but I consider a mouse to be necessary for the best experience.

Edit: It is actually slightly more Fun on mobile. As long as you don't drag.

bubbles toy satisfying casual addictive

Bouncy Ball

v3 2024-05-14:

• skarrmann hidden palette added
• increased chance of seeing secret unlockables

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"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."
    - Mitch Hedberg

Game Guide

It takes a steady paddle...

The paddle imparts its speed on the ball, so keep it steady or use this to your advantage to control the ball.. if you can keep up with it!

Modifiers

Modifiers will refresh along the back wall every 5 bounces. Some will give you an advantage, others a disadvantage. Be careful what you land on!

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arcade 4color tennis bouncy ball

--- CONTROLS ---
Arrow keys to walk
C to jump
X to grapple (in goblin mode)
X to float (in ghost mode)

--- STORY ---
You are a greedy goblin looking for some gold in a dungeon. Unfortunately, the Evil Spirit of the Dungeon™ has cursed all of the gold so that whoever steals it becomes a ghost. There is a catch though: if you bring the gold back to the chest at the beginning of the level, you become alive again somehow!

Use your goblin grappling hook and ghostly floating abilities to make your way to the gold and back!

--- MAKING OF ---
This game was made by two people (ooooggll and Ummmm_ok) way back in October, for a game jam in a game design class. The jam lasted roughly 3 weeks I think. As a result, some features in the game might feel incomplete as we had to get it done by the deadline.

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platformer jam halloween

Image...

So I wanted to make PicoChat (from picotron), but with images.
The limit of chars you can send is 256, so that means a 16x16 image with colors.
This method can send a two color image with 32x32. Im not sure if anyone has ever done this.
The way it works is simple, you have a table with 16 combinations of a 1x4 field. Each one has a index.
then the first four pixels are checked for a combination and assigned a index from the table, you can decode it in the same way. I planning to implement it to PicoChat.

you can use this for anything, have a nice day :)

image savechars cool 256 16x16

CoCo Clicker V1

Cookie Clicker Demake - Malsarthegreat

This is my first Pico-8 Game! Love this fantasy console and I love clickers so I thought I would take a stab at a classic!

It is fairly basic at the moment with only 5 upgrades and 1 sfx but I am pretty pleased with the UI so far!

Plan on continuing work on this but this is what I have for now!

Features so far:

• Cookie clicking!
• 5 Upgrades
• 1 sfx
• cartridge saving and loading (persistent storage)
• cookie animations
• milk animation
• Simple/usable UI

A few known bugs:

• Alchemy upgrade cost is wonky
• once you hit 50k cookies, it turns negative and eventually you start over.

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clicker cookieclicker cookie coco demake

Flycave

A one-button game based on my favorite old PalmOS game called SFCave by SunFlat. Press the up arrow to swoop up and let go to dive down. Dodge the obstacles and don't hit the edges of the cave.

Notes

This is my first attempt at a game on any platform. The game mechanics are directly from SFCave, but I put my own spin on the graphics to learn as much as I could about Pico 8. Feedback is very welcome!