Hello there, fellow gamer! Thank you for coming to try out my first official Pico-8 release. Picout is reminiscent of the old-school Breakout game, but a little more fast-paced and with a colorful, modern twist.
Controls
Left/Right - move paddle
X button/keyboard X - continue
O button/keyboard C - activate magnet
Tips
The magnet is most powerful when positioned directly under the ball. Use it to squeeze the ball into a tight space, or to drag the ball down into a cluster of bricks.
Go for the gold! The more bricks you break before the ball hits your paddle, the more points you'll earn for each brick. Legend says if you get 15 or more in a row, something explosive could happen...
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Is it possible to fill in vector graphics?
Is there a way to fill in something like this bird shape?
It is currently drawn using line().
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CONTROLS
Left/Right: Turn
X: Ollie. Hold to accelerate, release to ollie (jump)
Down: Slow down
Up: Hold to transfer over a quarter-pipe. (In rare cases, you can also use it to accelerate but not prepare an ollie)
Z/C: Trick. Press to grind a rail or ledge, use directional keys to do various tricks! See this trick list at any time in the menu during gameplay.
There are more tricks than this... can you find them all?
HOW TO PLAY
If you've played the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series then you'll already know what to do - choose a level in the menu and try to complete all the goals! The goals are about getting a certain score, or getting a certain score in a short combo, or doing a certain trick over a gap.
Hold X to accelerate and then release it to Ollie. Use the "O" key (usually Z or C on a keyboard) to do tricks. Try pressing it before landing on a rail or edge to grind, or press a directional button before pressing the trick key to do a flip trick or grab trick in the air!
The most important trick to learn for doing longer combos and getting more points is the manual - press up, down before landing and you will continue your combo. You can extend your combo indefinitely as long as you can balance and do manuals between other tricks!
THANKS
MUSIC: Maple: https://maple.pet/
MUSIC: Wasiknighit: https://wasiknighit.itch.io/
PLAYTESTING: maple, nickpage
BONUS
Level editor: very soon!
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This is Walk To The Spot. A game where you (our glorious hero)... walk to the spot. And then you walk to the next one. And the next one. Until the random explosions kill you.
The more spots you walk to, the higher your score. Can you get the new high score? There is only one way to find out...
You've got to walk to the spot!
Controls
You move around with the d-pad.
After "game over" you press X to play again.
Advanced Strategies
- Avoid explosions
- Keep walking to the spot
- Walk diagonal to move faster
- Play it so much that you start walking to the spot IRL
- Have fun
- Walk to the spot
Credits
Brian Knapp (me) - I made this.
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(Sorry for double posting, i cant delete blog post)
--A little off-topic:
Greetings, great people! Some of you might remember that i made a post crying about how i dont get 3d. Some of you gave me a lot of great advise, which i followed. Howerver, i still could get it really until near current time. So here it is, somewhat modified Zep's dots3d demo. Maybe i be not that smart anyway.
--somewhat interesting part of text:
This tiny engine can render a 8x8x2 dots figure, it takes what to draw from sprite 001, thought depth isn't a thing you can change per-sprite. Right now there is a trollface, if you didnt notice.
--what you can do with it:
draw youself a 3d dots figure by changing sprite 001. i would love to see anything being done with it.
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Im pretty behind on pico 8 versions so i just want to know how can i update pico 8 in a way where ill keep all of the work ive done. Thanks!
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This is some work I did on creating some more fancier looking shadows, which could either be a rectangle version (thanks to @2darray for extra help on that) or using any shaped size or coloured sprite to use as a mask for the shadow effect.
I'm sure with using some additional math and tline you could probably create a lovely dynamic lighting effect with it too.
Press X or C/Z to see the other two tinting types in action. CTRL+P to see the performance hits.
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it's a 2 players only game with one button each to play.
One player use buttons X or C and the other the arrow keys.
This game is inspired by Chiritorie on wario ware inc. on GBA.
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Piou Piou Piou is a two player shooter, use controller for a better experience.
Blue player can only shot blue ennemies and beeing shoot by blue bullet.
Green player can only shot green ennemies and beeing shoot by green bullet.
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Here's my try on John Conway's Game of Life. If you don't know what it is, please read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
I tried my best to make it fast enough and not overload pico 8, which caused some inconveniences such as an invisible cursor. But it is anyway much fun to use and add life on the run. So idk, i'm open for any suggestions on how to improve it!
--Controls:
Press space bar or X button to start or stop life generation.
Press Z to delete all life on the screen
You may use the mouse to add life by simply clicking left mouse button or delete it by pressing right button. By default it will add just a single life pixel, but you can change it to different patterns using these characters on the keyboard:
- 0 - just a singe life pixel
- 1 - block
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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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