Super Mario Bros. Starman Theme REMIX
(Credits to Nintendo)
While editing Jelpi to be a mario-reminisced game, I had the idea to make the Star/Starman theme from the original 1985 Super Mario Bros.
I also made the song as if it were in Jelpi, although to be honest I don't really see the comparison well as I had imagined the sound would've.
Anyways, enough of my talking. Here's the song itself:
You're free to use this, but please give credit if you do.
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LumberJack Demake
A demake of Telegram's LumberJack game. Chop wood as fast as you can, but watch out for those branches!
Controls
Default configuration
- Left Arrow or 🇴(Z): Chop left
- Right Arrow or 🇽(X): Chop right
If you are playing on a console where the keys positions are swapped, you can press 🇽(X) in the main menu to swap to the below configuration:
Swapped configuration
- Left Arrow or 🇽(X): Chop left
- Right Arrow or 🇴(Z): Chop right
Special Notes
My first cart, hooray!
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Work in progress prototyping:
- procedural animation
- drawing player in multiple parts,
- brawler style level
- smashing things
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I wanted to know if there was a way to export games from pico-8 splore favorites into p8.html and .js form. I've had some bad weather and just wanted to know so I can play them offline some.
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Over the last month I worked on a little Pikmin-inspired game for the 21st Eggplant Podcast game jam. What I ended up with is a fun little toy where you explore a level looking for three parts of a ship needed to escape a collapsing moon.
Ultimately I didn't end up delivering on a lot of the planned features or narrative that I had in mind, but I'm happy with the end result. I developed portions of the game live on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/kevinmakesgames) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@kevinmakesgames/streams). I regularly committed and pushed all of the project files to Github (https://github.com/kevinthompson/moonbreak-p8/) along the way.
I developed this in part as a test of the object-oriented approach I've been refining in PICO-8. In the end I still came pretty close to the token and compressed size limits so I still have work to do optimizing my OOP approach (or you know... admit defeat it and write more data/function-oriented code).
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Here's a little machine that generates Euclidean Rhythm.
You may read more about Euclidean Rhythm here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_rhythm
--controls
Press play button on the left bottom part of the machine to play the sequence.
You may find two knobs on the bottom right part of the machine. The left knob changes the amount of steps in the sequence. The right knob changes the amount of euclidean triggers.
You may also change the speed if the sequence by pressing up and down arrows. The speed is shown in BPM on the top right corner of the screen.
I was interested in creating euclidean generator in Pico 8, so this cart is just an example. Hope you'll find it interesting.
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PixelBasket
A singleplayer basketball game
Game objective
Get as many points as possible before time runs out. Take advantage of throws from different scoring zones. Jump during throws and to get the ball.
Controls
- Movement: arrows
- Jump: [z]
- Throw: [x] (the longer you hold, the harder you throw)
Main game music was created based on beat of RBI Baseball: Nobody On Base (sequenced by Sivak Drac) and with Denote tool.
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Sherbet Shuffle was a quick game I threw together this weekend inspired by the Arcade Paradise mini-game Stack Overflow.
Match all the same flavor ice cream together in two different game modes. Casual mode has no timer, you can reshuffle the puzzle with the new button if you get yourself stuck with no penalty, and it's just there to be a relaxing time. Career mode starts you with 180 seconds, and you gain a few seconds every time you make a match of 4. If you get yourself stuck you can reshuffle the puzzle with a 10 second penalty, so it is recommended that you start with Casual mode until you know how the puzzles work.
Every puzzle is possible, as you have two hands that can each grab a scoop of ice cream, but since these scoops can only be placed on top of the same flavor or an empty cone, you can get yourself stuck if you aren't paying attention, and will need to reshuffle the puzzle. You can figure out some nifty tricks since you can grab two different scoops, and you can maneuver yourself across some sticky situations.
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HeadKnight
Defenders of the kingdom
This is the title of my little game project I've been working for a while, even as it's development has slowed down due to life events it still continuing and I'm happy to announce I'm releasing a small demo of the game.
It's a simple arena horde 2d game where you kill enough monsters to proceed to the next horde until the boss horde.
Currently there's only 1 boss, a couple hordes and an infinite mode, with 5 playable characters, 3 enemies and 2 items.
Planned features are coop multiplayer, dialogues between characters and the bosses, a full story, more enemies and bosses and much more.
Controls:
Left-Right : direct the player left and right
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This is yet another implementation of snake and my first pico8 cartridge. I've shamelessly "borrowed" some of the code from nemo_dev's nemosnake for the particle effects. Thanks nemo_dev! It could probably use a bit more polish, but I need to let this one go and move on.
Feedback is welcome. :)
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Stonekeep's Dungeon is a simple Dungeon Crawler inspired by first Wizardry and its clones.
Any comments, criticisms or ideas are welcome :)
release 1.1.10 (2024-08-15)
- tweaked screen navigation and save points
release 1.1.9 (2024-08-13)
- maximum health point are at least 1
- add remaining mana point to spell screen
- fix recruit screen
- tweaked default party
release 1.1.8 (2024-08-13)
- fix regression bug in combat
- fix regression bug in item creation
- code optimization
release 1.1.7 (2024-08-12)
- maximum health point are at least 2
(no more instant kill for VIT- effect) - remove one-hit kill protection
- add sfx for exploration and combat
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firestarter
Some small game I have been working on that I managed to not quite finish.
There are some bugs I still need to adress and I don't like how the transitions turned out.
Fixing the issues requeres a lot of the code to be rewritten because the current version is a bit messy.
Would like some feedback on wether the concept even works too.
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A small little scanline test I made out of boredom..
I know it isn't top-tier, or the most efficient, but I tried, atleast.
If you care a bit for how this was done, I basically set a couple FOR loops, get certain pixels' color, retrieve a certain value from a table, set a pixel with the recently retrieved value from that table at the position of the pixel that we retrieved its' color from, and, then, repeat that ~8192 times, and then you got some mediocre scanlines! :D
I get that was a bit vague, but if you want a more detailed explanation, just look inside the cartridge.
(passive aggressiveness not intended.)
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so i didn't know if i was gonna share this or not, but I've spent a bit of time on this version.
Additions
battle system rewrite:
battle system was written a while back and needed to be cleaned up. now it is
battle loading:
battles can now be triggered by the init_btl() function. it is currently being used during NPC interaction and wild encounters, which work but are currently disabled. In addition, NPCs havea new interaction node that triggers a battle. You can try it out by answering "no" to the NPC.
code improvements in loading data:
cleaned up, rewrote, and overall made loading data neater and more token-efficient. a new read() function added to assist in this mission. All parts of the code written as table
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Pico 8 Linux Laptop
Intro
The guide below shows how to configure a laptop to automatically boot and launch Pico 8. The laptop will shutdown when the SHUTDOWN command is issued in Pico 8 console.
Requirements
- Laptop supporting Ubuntu 22.04 Server: x86/64 or arm32/64 (I used the Asus Vivobook Go 12.)
- Disk space required: 4GB (8GB is better)
- Pico 8 License
Install Ubuntu
If Windows is installed use MMC / Disk Management to shrink the Windows partition.
Install Ubuntu 22.04 Server (e.g. USB - press ESC or F2 to enter bios);
After booting the Ubuntu 22.04 Server Installer:
- Select Install Ubuntu Minimal
- If you want to keep Windows, make sure you are not overwriting the partition. Ubuntu will dual-boot if not installed on a full disk.
- During installation, configure the administrative user. You will use this to update Pico8, etc.
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Compete in the ultimate tournament of the realm's most powerful mages. Do you have what it takes to rise to the top?
Controls
- Arrow Keys - movement
- (X) set the target in motion, press it again to detonate
- (C) dash
- Enter/P to Pause Menu (Reset Cart to get back to menu)
(Alternative mapping to C is Z and to X is V)
Lich King's Gauntlet is also available on itch.io.
Description
In the Lich King's Gauntlet, you play as a wizard competing in a deadly tournament. Fully utilize your fireball and dash abilities in frantic combat against various types of wizards. Will you survive all the rounds for a chance to fight the Lord Supreme himself?
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